Topic: Boy, 4, attacks armed robber with toy sword

[Pugnate]

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 Ananova:
Boy, 4, attacks armed robber with toy sword

A four-year-old changed into his Power Ranger costume and attacked when his family were held up by an armed robber.

Stevie Long sneaked out of the room while a robber was pointing a gun at his five-year-old sister Mary and mum Jennifer.

Minutes later, he leapt back into the room dressed as a Mighty Morphin Power Ranger, reports the News and Observer.

"Get away from my family," he shouted, swinging his plastic sword and shouting "yah, yah."

The robber and his accomplice, who was waiting outside the apartment, fled with credit cards, jewellery, and cash.

"I scared the bad guys away," Stevie said later at the apartment in Durham, North Carolina.

Police say the two armed men had approached Jennifer Long's boyfriend and his son outside the apartment.

One of them pushed the son back into the apartment where he forced Jennifer, Stevie and Mary, a cousin and two other children to the floor at gunpoint.

Relatives said the robber abandoned plans to take Stevie's mother to a cashpoint to withdraw money when he saw Stevie.

Stevie's aunt, Heather Evans, said a counsellor had suggested Stevie needs to improve his distinction between fantasy and reality: "He fully believed he morphed," she added.

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[iPPi]

Hahaha.

[Quemaqua]

That's pretty funny.  Poor kid is going to get himself killed one day, though.

[Xessive]

Haha I read this yesterday at Ananova and I anticipated that Pug would post it It's kinda heart-warming

[Ace_O_Spades]

It's all fun and games till he gets shot in the fuckin face

WHO'S MIGHTY NOW!?!?

[Cobra951]

That's the problem.  It's funny because it worked out, a fluke I think.  Don't think he would have been shot unless those guys are psychos.  More likely, he might have been picked up by the collar and flung across the room.

[WindAndConfusion]

Don't think he would have been shot unless those guys are psychos.

"Psycho" wouldn't do it. Those guys would have to be dumb as bricks to shoot the kid. Armed robbery will get the police to chase after you for a few weeks, but shooting a four-year-old will get every SWAT team in the state pissed off.