Cell Phone Protects Clerk From Knife Attack in Robbery

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

ROSWELL, Ga. — A Georgia liquor store clerk credits his police officer son with giving him two life-saving gifts — a cell phone and a gun.

Joseph Wescott says the phone he slipped into his shirt pocket stopped a knife to his chest when a robbery suspect attacked him at the store in a northern Atlanta suburb. He then reached under the counter for the .40-caliber handgun and shot the man.

"The knife that he had looked like it was about 10-foot long," the 67-year-old Wescott exclaimed.

When the suspect lunged at Wescott, he fell back and the knife struck the battery area of the phone, the clerk said. He then fired one shot at the man Monday night.

"That was the first time I had ever fired that gun," he said.

Police said Carlos JeanPeirre, 34, is recovering from non-life threatening wounds and faces multiple charges including aggravated assault and attempted robbery.


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,526983,00.html


So many myths dispelled in one incident.

David

[ZombieHorde]

1. "So many myths dispelled in one incident."

I don't care, I am still not getting a cell phone.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

2. That's good stuff.

:rofl:

[DBoon]

3. Cell phones should still be outlawed!

I know what the second amendment says, but the founding fathers could not anticipate the brutalizing effects of this technology.

[TheWraith]

4. Damn, somebody had some good karma going for him.

To avoid being stabbed, then to successfully wound his attacker without any real practice with the gun? The man was incredibly lucky.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

5. True.