<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">DURHAM - The robber was holding a gun to 5-year-old Mary Long's head when a 3-foot-tall Mighty Morphin Power Ranger leapt into the room. "Get away from my family," 4-year-old Stevie Long shouted, punctuating his screams with swipes of his plastic sword and hearty "yah, yahs." The robber and his accomplice, who was waiting outside the apartment Friday night, fled with credit cards, jewelry, cash and other items that Stevie's mother, Jennifer Long, dumped from her purse. "I scared the bad guys away," Stevie said Tuesday evening at the apartment at 901 Chalk Level Road in north Durham. Two men had approached Jennifer Long's boyfriend and his son Friday night as they stood outside the apartments she helps manage, according to a police report. The strangers asked for pot, and then a cigarette, and as the son went to get one, both men pulled guns, police said. One stayed with the boyfriend as the other forced the son back into the apartment, police said. Inside were Jennifer Long, a cousin, Stevie, Mary and two other children, police said. They were forced on the floor. The robber pointed the gun at Mary and a 1-year-old girl named Sierra, said Stevie's uncle, Bernie Evans, 33, who lives above the Longs. Enter Stevie. "During the robbery, a ... boy snuck into his bedroom, dressed himself in a Power Ranger costume and armed himself with a plastic sword," police said. "The child then exited his room and approached the armed suspect, in an attempt to protect his family."</div> Link
This really isn't that funny a situation. Although, the innocence of the child is heart warming the fact of the matter is he could have been seriously harmed, or even killed. The sister has been effected emotionally by this incident and has had to see a doctor because of it. I know some may find it easy to laugh since no one got hurt, but when you think about what could have happened, I just can't see how there is humor in it.
<div class="quote_poster">GameFace Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">This really isn't that funny a situation. Although, the innocence of the child is heart warming the fact of the matter is he could have been seriously harmed, or even killed. The sister has been effected emotionally by this incident and has had to see a doctor because of it. I know some may find it easy to laugh since no one got hurt, but when you think about what could have happened, I just can't see how there is humor in it.</div> I agree, but i think the humor he sees in it is that the child dressed as a power ranger and used a plastic sword to actually scare them away.
I think Ming (name change?) was drawing humour in the fact that the kid went out and did that. Not so much the robbers ran scared. One of those things you smile and feel good about, but I agree that had they hurt the kid it would've been different. What a brave kid, stupid, but brave.
