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EARTHDATE: November 3, 2013

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REAL LIFE NEWS: SAVED BY THE PHONE

by Hazed

Talk about a lucky escape! A clerk in a Florida convenience store avoided being plugged by a robber’s bullet when his smartphone took the hit for him.

The robber walked into the store early on Monday morning and demanded that the clerk open the store safe. He wasn’t able to do this, and another staff member also failed. At this point the robber fired a single shot from his gun and legged it.

The clerk didn’t even realise he’d been shot until he tried to make a call on his HTC mobile and found had been was smashed by the bullet. It looks like the battery took the brunt of the force, which prevented the shot from ploughing through into the clerk’s chest. There’s a picture of the damage at the source link below.

The fortunate victim only sustained minor injuries during the incident. Police don’t know the identity of the shooting robber.

It’s lucky he kept the phone in his shirt pocket rather than in his trousers!

Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/29/htc_smartphone_takes_a_bullet_saves_shopkeepers_life/

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