For All You Cell Phone Haters, Here's Proof Positive...

[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/

[MajGenl.Meade]

I'm going to get pockets sown into my shirts above my abdomen. That old thorax location is obviously inadequate.

[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.

[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

[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"...

[MajGenl.Meade]

"there" Baldrick Jim, "there". Not "their"

[Lord Jim]

"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.. )

[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.