When his family was held at gunpoint by 2 armed men, a 4 year old boy picked up a plastic toy sword, and ran to defend his family.
And he won.
http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/515756.html
A brave kid.
They hardly make em like that, anymore.
:eek: OMG! The chances of the robber just blowing the kid away, were alot higher than what actually happened.
He wasn’t brave, children have little or no concept of mortal danger. That’s why we don’t turn them out into the street at four years old.
I once cared for a three year old who jumped off a roof while wearing a Batman costume. I had a long. serious talk with him about make believe and reality. At the end of my monologue, I asked if he understood that Batman can’t fly. He nodded solemnly, but as I walked away, I heard him say, under his breath, “But Superman can.”
See? No concept.
I hope they catch the crook and then spread that story among the other inmates.
There are no words for how lucky that kid is. By all rights, he and his whole family should be dead right now. Those crooks didn’t run away because the kid fought them off. They ran because they had at least enough human decency not to shoot a four year old in the head.
Damned lucky.
Reminds me of the scene from Crash when
The little girl jumps into her daddy’s arms when the shopkeeper was about to shoot him because she had the special invisible blanket protecting her. That scene had me jumping out of my chair :eek:
Holy cow, that is a scary story since it could have so easily turned out to be a tragedy. Since the robber was willing to put a gun to a FIVE year old kid’s head, I am really surprised he didn’t just shoot the little boy. Thank goodness they’re all safe now.
Reading this, I am forced to agree with children everywhere that, in fact, adults are stupid. His logic is impeccable: Superman can fly!
(neener-neener)
I think you give them way too much credit. I suspect that they were just thrown off by the Everything-Stopped-Going-According-to-Plan element. A 4-year old attacking you is something you don’t expect to deal with, so maybe give them credit for not acting on the basest of impulses, but I don’t think they spontaneously grew a conscience–I think they simply bailed because things got weirder and out of their control.
I disagree. He may not have understood that he could have died…or even what death really means…but he had to understand that a “bad man” was threatening to hurt his family, that the “bad man” was much bigger than he was, had a gun, and the little guy still fought as hard as he could to save them. That’s brave, any way you slice it.
I must agree with picunurse. He probably thought he really was one of those power ranger thingies. 
I am glad it ended well.
I don’t see that it matters if the kid believed he was Godzilla, Cowboy Bill Watts, and Batman all rolled into one. He saw a threat, and he acted.
As adults, yeah, we know he didn’t really save the day, and could have made things worse…but that does not diminish the courage shown by the little guy.
Who the hell is Cowboy Bill Watts?
I agree with Bosda & Oakminster. Things could have gone bad, but they didn’t.
I wouldn’t recommend other 4 year olds rise up and attack evil doers, but he got away with it and deserves kudos, IMHO.
Cowboy Bill Watts is best known as a former pro wrestler and promoter. Also played football at Oklahoma and professionally. Now retired.
Thanks.
This may come as a surprise to you, but not all burglars are so criminally sociopathic as to blow away a 4-year-old kid with a plastic sword. They rely on intimidation and fear to get what they want. If something doesn’t go to plan, they’re more likely to turn tail and run.
And since the burglars got away, with lots of money and stuff, it doesn’t sound like anything turned out different.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that this kid is picking up an invulnerability complex that will result in his gruesome death, maybe multiple times *a la * Mr. Bill.
For the time being, though, he’s damn lucky and damned cute. 
Sure, but scared people do stupid, impulsive things. Count me grateful that it all turned out ok.
I’m with Oakminster on this one. The kid had the same mature judgment about danger of every four-year-old, but what he did was unquestionably BRAVE. He saw evil people threatening those he loved, and he took action. Whatever we may think about the wisdom of his action (and when did we start judging the wisdom of four-year-olds by adult criteria, anyway?), he hit the dictionary definition of bravery square on.
(And in Durham, you probably need to take an aggressive response in order to survive.)
I bet Bruce Wayne feels pretty dumb when he finds out about this.