Posted on 04/14/2005 3:12:38 PM PDT by nuconvert
Man Saved by Lip Balm
April 13, 2005
Call it the case of the lucky ChapStick.
Steven Jacobs, a physician's assistant in Brooklyn, N.Y., dropped his tube of lip balm at work last Wednesday — and bent over to pick it up just as a bullet flew through his office window, reports the New York Post.
Police and witnesses said Jacobs, 35, was working at the Ditmas Park Rehab/Care Center (search) just before 3 p.m. when two men started arguing on the street outside.
One guy pulled out a BB gun — which prompted the other to yank out a real handgun and get off several shots.
One bullet hit the first man in the jaw. Another ricocheted and went right into Jacobs' office window just as he reached for the ChapStick (search).
"I thought there was car backfiring in the parking lot," said Jacobs, a former Israeli policeman. "The second shot told me I needed to stay down."
Jacobs was hit above the eye by flying glass, but the cut was not serious, and he said his injuries could have been much worse.
"There's a hole in the window over there, and seconds before, I was standing up there," he said. "I was very fortunate. God was with me, no question. If God wanted me dead, I would be dead."
The man shot outside went to the hospital, while the shooter got away.
After Jacobs' close call made the newspapers, he got a call from Wyeth Consumer Healthcare (search), makers of ChapStick.
"Wyeth wants to make sure that he has ChapStick available forever," spokeswoman Heather Scherman told the Post.
Jacobs was soon to receive a case of 100 ChapSticks, the beginning of a free lifetime supply.
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Darn handy stuff, lipbalm.
Sounds like the mother of all balms.
May the balm be with you.
All Your Balm Are Belong To US.
That's SO the balm!
Red
Aaaww!!
Why'd you have to go and post a pic of Laurie Dhue for!!! Man's got to work for a living, and all I was doing was checking the news!
She is most hot, right, meet, and just.
Don't you mean "Send us up the balm"?
"Wyeth wants to make sure that he has ChapStick available forever," spokeswoman Heather Scherman told the Post.
The same exact thing happened to me but it involved a pint of Guinness. Honest it did.
Yikes!!! My hubby used a tube of chapstick once to repair a fuel line until he could get his truck to the shop.
Would have been a Bummer without the Balm.
*LOL*!
"Who told you to put the balm on? I didn't tell you to put the balm on. Do you know why they call it a balm? Do you know what a balm does?"
How about this as an alternate title, "Embalmed Man Lives to Tell Tale."
LOL! Good grief, what the heck is he going to do with 100 tubes of ChapStick?! Use them for Christmas presents??!
Rule #1: Never bring a BB gun to a REAL gun fight!
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