Don't give a SWAT team the finger.

[Eldred]

An 8-and-a-half-hour standoff between a heavily armed woman and sheriff's deputies ended when the woman flashed her middle finger and a SWAT team took the gesture as a cue to storm her house.

Authorities were called to the home early yeserdat after Rose Wright allegedly forced her husband, Clyde, out at gunpoint. The husband told deputies there were three shotguns, two assault rifles, two handguns and about 200 rounds of ammunition inside the home.

But even after more than three dozen tear gas canisters were lobbed inside the dwelling, Wright remained holed up and refused to communicate with negotiators until she gave deputies the sign they needed.

The gesture told deputies Wright no longer had a weapon in her hand and so they went inside the house to get her.

Wright was taken to a local hospital for a medical and psychiatric evaluation. She faces charges ranging from assault with a deadly weapon to possession of assault weapons, Amaral said. One of the weapons found inside the home was an A-K-47, which are illegal in California.