Real Life Hero

Tulkamir

Dunno if any of you have seen this yet, but a guy in England tried to help stop an armed robbery of a couple security guards and took a bullet in the process. Amazing story, this guy deserves huge amounts of respect.

He also happens to be both a gamer and a heavy metal fan. Nice to see the news reporting on a story related to those that doesn't involve the fan on the other side of the gun.

Full story - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/29/gamer_shooting/

Also interesting, the pure pwnage community has really taken to the guy. - http://www.purepwnage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=55477&st=0

[edit]Better article - ]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/6695325.stm[/edit]

Joao Sapiro

wow ! he has guts ! althou he kinda didnt stop the robbery since the burglars escaped with the money :P

Tulkamir

Oops, good point. Post edited.

pliang

He has guts alright, though he should let the authorities handle it...consequences could've been more serious.

Ninjas

The way I see it the consequences would have been worse if he hadn't done anything. True, there is a chance of being maimed or killed if you do something, but if you do nothing you are guaranteed of having to live with the fact that you are a complete pussy.

And who knows, maybe he saved the lives of two people.

Wells

I bet the guys who shot him listen to their metal way louder.

And play more video games.

Jesse Moody

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Hahaha oh man that was awesome.

ebagg

He obviously isn't that good of a Counter Strike player, his bunny hopping skills weren't 1337 enough for him to dodge the bullet!

Great dude though, more people need to stand up to the scumbags with guns.

Slum

Good for this guy. I hope he's doing well.

I've been in the same situation before, in fact more than once.

As some of the #m_d people know, a couple months ago I was nearly shot during an armed robbery, AND in that same week I intervened when I saw a hobo stabbing another hobo in the face. (As an aside, when I was walking home that night, covered in hobo blood, I somehow decided that I want to illustrate childrens books...)

Call me nosey and intrusive, but I just can't stand around and watch things like that happen. Maybe I'm secretly trying to even out my karma for all the stupid things I did as a teenager.

Another great story like this, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/03/nyregi...ner=rssuserland