Girl Says She Used Hammer To Escape Kidnapper

Status
Not open for further replies.

BryanP

Member
Joined
May 25, 2003
Messages
2,419
Location
Lavergne, TN
Great story, but I have a hard time believing that schools today would teach people to look around them for weapons. The police are looking for this guy. They really want to nail him bad. :evil:

http://www.channel3000.com/news/818...l=c3k_12pm&tmi=c3k_12pm_1_12000303222006&ts=H

Girl Says She Used Hammer To Escape Kidnapper

POSTED: 10:31 am CST March 22, 2006

TOLEDO, Ohio -- A 14-year-old girl said she escaped from a kidnapper with the help of a hammer.

Police in Toledo, Ohio, said the quick-thinking girl found it in the man's car and used it to hit him in the groin.

The girl told police the man forced her into his car at gunpoint while she was walking to her school bus stop Tuesday.

Police said the girl told them she remembered a lesson from school to always search for a weapon in that kind of situation. So she told her abductor she had dropped her ring in the car and went searching for it. That's when she felt the hammer under her seat.

She said she hit him with it, then ran to her grandmother's house.

The suspect is still being sought.

The child described the alleged abductor as a white male in his 30s, about 6 feet, 4 inches tall, and about 285 pounds. She said he had black hair, a braided goatee and yellowed teeth, according to The Toledo Blade.

The paper reported that the alleged kidnapper was driving a black, four-door car that may have been an older model Ford Taurus or similar looking vehicle. The girl said the car had a blue cloth interior and damage to a rear passenger-side window.
 
Police said the girl told them she remembered a lesson from school to always search for a weapon in that kind of situation
Whoa! I thought they were teaching the "just go along with it" method in schools now.

I'm all for self defense, and she did good, it's just... in the groin? Hammer? Gah! Maybe we should all send her a congratulatory nutcracker.
 
Well, this just proves beyond any doubt that NO ONE needs a firearm!!

If some cretin attacks you, just grab a hammer or something like that, and that's all you need for protection.

L.W.
 
as much as chester the molester deserved it, i dont think theres a guy alive that didnt cringe when he read that. man thats gotta hurt. i hope they catch him.
 
Yes, guns only kill people and therefore are reprehensible. On the other hand, a hammer is noble tool with many applications and therefore it is okay to have it around. Thus victims do not need guns but must look for improvised weapons, because civilians cannot be trusted with a tool of death, so they have to make one out of handy objects at the crime scene. Yay, McGyver.

Dark Prayer: May all gungrabbers and antis be granted plentiful PERSONAL opportunities to experience the need for self-defense.
 
You know what they say...

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.:)
 
Well, time for me to break out my copy of the "Nutcracker Suite"...

I hope she got a good swing behind it... :eek:

This is a 22 March story, surprised we didn't see it before...
 
Police in Toledo, Ohio, said the quick-thinking girl found it in the man's car and used it to hit him in the groin.

Can we propose this as a statutory punishment for all sex offenders, to be delivered between sentencing and going to jail? Victim gets to do this?
 
When they catch him they should handcuff him and give her and her dad a few more wacks at it.
 
Whoa! I thought they were teaching the "just go along with it" method in schools now.

They used teach the go along method, but few years back they decided that it was obviously not effective. The idea was to do what the guy says and it will be bad, but you will probably survive.

The thinking now is that there are 2 crime scenes in these situations. The abduction scene and the secluded or 2nd scene. You have a much better chance escaping the abduction scene unhurt than you do the 2nd scene. If you make it hard the the perp he'll usually leave to find an easier target

They don't go into details for the kids, but they teach them to yell, scream kick, scratch, run.
 
The alleged abductor as a white male in his 30s, about 6 feet, 4 inches tall, and about 285 pounds talking in a veryvery high voice:evil: .
 
The groin shot is great, too bad she didn't follow to the face. Someone checking into the ER with a supposed "self inflincted hammer wound to the face" ought to be pretty easy to find.

-Jenrick
 
a white male in his 30s, about 6 feet, 4 inches tall, and about 285 pounds. She said he had black hair, a braided goatee and yellowed teeth,

Lurch! But seriously, considering the unique description they have to know who this is and have him in custody by now?

This sounds improbable to me. She may have only had a bad dream and believes it to be real. My wife dreamt about me with another woman back in the 70s and still believes it really happend.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top