Saved By The Bell
Submitted By: Phantom
Article Date: 04/26/1999
URL: http://www.goofball.com/news/990426_bell
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters)
``This is the lucky telephone. Thanks to it I'm alive,'' Neto,
48, told O Globo newspaper in an interview published
Friday.
The taxi driver had been riding a bus in downtown Rio de Janeiro
last Tuesday, when a stray bullet from a failed
robbery shot through an open window and lodged in the cellular
telephone he was carrying inside a leather
briefcase under his arm.
``The thief shot and fled. It
was then that I felt the impact,''
Neto said.
He looked inside his case and found his cellular telephone
twisted out of shape with a 38-caliber bullet wedged
between the keypad and the battery.
Brazil has one of the world's
worst telephone systems, but Brazilian Francisco de
Assis Ferreira Neto stopped complaining
the day his cellular
telephone connected with a stray bullet headed for
his chest.