Thursday, December 30, 2010

FOR HIS AGE, A DAMN GOOD SET OF TEETH

If only my teeth were that good, and I’ll be ‘only’ 84 in March if I don’t croak before then.

MAN, 92, CHEWS THROUGH TAPE TO FREE SELF AFTER ROBBERY

The Straits Times
December 29, 2010

SHORELINE (Washington) - SHERIFF'S deputies in Washington state say a 92-year-old man chewed through masking tape for two hours to free himself after two men bound him to a chair and robbed his house.

King County sheriff's Sergeant John Urquhart says two men knocked on Lester Matteson's door in Shoreline on Monday and asked to use his phone, claiming their car broken down. But once they entered, the men grabbed the victim's arms and taped him to a chair.

Sergeant Urquhart says the men spent more than an hour in the home looking for valuables, eventually darting off with more than $400 in cash and the victim's 2000 Ford pickup truck.

It took Mr Matteson two hours to chew through the masking tape. Other than bruises,he was not injured. Mr Matteson tells KOMO-TV he wasn't frightened, but at his age, 'you don't wrestle two young men'.

And he says he's learned his lesson. 'Watch out who you let in.' -- AP

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