Like something out of a B-Grade action movie a New Orleans man has been shot in the chest only to be saved by the extremely lucky placement of his mobile phone.Ronald Richard was mowing his lawn when he felt a hard object hit him in the chest. He took off his sweater to discovered that he'd been hit by a .45-caliber slug and that his Motorola RAZR had literally taken a bullet for him.
Engadget says, "The angle of the bullet and the modest stopping power of the cellphone were all that stood between the man and serious injury or even death. Instead, this lucky gent got away with little more than a fairly significant bruise..."
No mention of where the stray bullet came from or why someone was shooting randomly in their neighbourhood but then again, it was in the US, do they need a reason?
Talk about lucky, and now he's got a great excuse to buy a new phone for himself and I have discovered a use for Motorola phones.
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