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For All You Cell Phone Haters, Here's Proof Positive...
Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 11:40 pm
by Lord Jim
that cell phones save lives:
Florida store clerk's cell phone stops bullet fired by robber
WINTER GARDEN, Fla. (AP) — A Central Florida gas station clerk has been saved by his cellphone.
Police say a Hess clerk sustained only minor injuries after a robber fired a bullet at the man's abdomen that was stopped by his cellphone.
The close call happened Monday at about 4:45 a.m. in Winter Garden, a suburb of Orlando.
A man entered the gas station and asked a clerk for help. Then he showed the worker a revolver and demanded he open the safe. When the clerk couldn't open the safe, the robber ordered a second clerk to try. He was also unsuccessful. The suspect fired one round at a clerk and fled.
Police say the employee had no idea the bullet had hit his cell phone until he pulled it out of his shirt pocket.
http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2013/oct ... by-robber/
Re: For All You Cell Phone Haters, Here's Proof Positive...
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 6:37 am
by MajGenl.Meade
I'm going to get pockets sown into my shirts above my abdomen. That old thorax location is obviously inadequate.
Re: For All You Cell Phone Haters, Here's Proof Positive...
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 1:55 pm
by Guinevere
I'd say many people here don't hate cell phones, just the manner in which they are used (and abused). Kind of like guns.
Re: For All You Cell Phone Haters, Here's Proof Positive...
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 3:18 pm
by rubato
NOW what am I going to do? I already have a bible in one pocket to protect me from flying bullets and a bullet in the other shirt pocket to protect me from flying bibles.
yrs,
rubato
Re: For All You Cell Phone Haters, Here's Proof Positive...
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 5:16 pm
by Lord Jim
I always keep a bullet in my pocket; one that I've written my name on...
Since they say that "the bullet that gets
you is the one with your name on it", I figured that if my I wrote my name on a bullet, and kept it in my pocket, the chances of their being
two bullets with my name on it,
are very slim indeed.... 
(Edited so Gen'l Arnold doesn't jump on me for an inappropriate apostrophe....
)
Okay, I stole that from "The Blackadder Goes Forth"...
Re: For All You Cell Phone Haters, Here's Proof Positive...
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 8:19 am
by MajGenl.Meade
"there" Baldrick Jim, "there". Not "their"
Re: For All You Cell Phone Haters, Here's Proof Positive...
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 2:12 pm
by Lord Jim
MajGenl.Meade wrote:"there" Baldrick Jim, "there". Not "their"
Okay, General Arnold gets points for noticing that I stole that from
The Blackadder Goes Forth....
But he get's (gratuitous apostrophe inserted deliberately, just to be annoying)
no points for noticing that I incorrectly used "their" when I should have written "there"...
I'm a victim of multitasking...(
You try reading, typing and talking on the phone while simultaneously entertaining a small child and having little dogs jump on you with a parrot sitting on your shoulder...in an earlier era, I could have taken this act on
The Ed Sullivan Show..
)
Re: For All You Cell Phone Haters, Here's Proof Positive...
Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 8:43 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
in an earlier era, I could have taken this act on The Ed Sullivan Show..
)
Now you could have a reality show.
Laboring with LordJim,
or something like that. 