Stevie Long:
Posted on 12/29/2006 2:30:43 AM PST by rawhide
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 ...
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I saw a TV report the other day about a 12-year-old Oregon boy who was staying overnight at a neighbor's when they had a short in the Christmas tree lights. He smelled the smoke, jumped out of bed, saw the apartment in flames, and got the mom and two kids out, then got help to get the third child out. All were safe. The apartment was a horrible mess.
This same youth, three years prior when he was nine, saved another child's life when the child fell overboard from a boat. I think he said the other child was reaching for a crab pot and fell into the water.
Lately I have been reading about child after child doing amazing deeds in saving the lives of others. It's wonderful.
The five-year-old in this account almost certainly didn't fully grasp the danger he and his family were in. Nevertheless, kudos to the boy. Who knows how this might have ended if he hadn't jumped in.
I don't care if he thinks he morphed. There's plenty of time for him to figure out he was just a regular ol' hero.
Nor should he need help "dealing" with what happened. He saw what happened real clearly and acted as best he knew how to save his sister. He should be praised. He did a man's job and he was only four. I hope the biddys that teach him in the years to come in school don't soak every bit of that out of him. Sometimes that seems to be their goal.
a Warrior born! I hope to see this fine young american signing up for one of our Armed services in just 15 short year. We will need brave men like him. We always have.
You are absolutely right, who knows. This was part of the article:
Relatives said the robber abandoned plans to take Stevie's mother to an ATM to withdraw cash when he saw Stevie.
"It tripped him out, and that's when they moved on,"...
Stevie Long:
j/k
Good job, kid. Later on, we'll show you how a .38 works.
What? A white guy who knows what to do and how to do it? And so young? How insensitive!
Bring on the ritalin and the counselors........
lol
Well, um. DA Mike Nifong, in Durham, is considered right up there with a Power Ranger. Role models... mole schodels. Oh well.
..."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."...
Mike Nifong, dressed up in a DA Costume armed himself with bogus accusations and approached the media in an attempt to protect his beautiful career...
I ask your apologies for politicizing this thread. And while I wish to praise this young boy; I wish to also add --It was the mother's job to protect her home; not the young boy's. Some well-placed instruments would have worked just fine; like a blast from a small can of airfreshener to the burglar's eyes... for starters...
There were two of them. What's the other one going to be doing while you spray your air freshener? The ideal would be that the mother be armed and dangerous to intruders.
Carolyn
Do you think the burglars were more frightened of the Power Ranger costume or the idea of shooting and killing a little boy?
I've heard this story for a month now. Why is this article dated 12-29-06? Slow news week?
Oops, I see it was posted 12-29, written on 11-29.
Sorry.
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."
Relatives said the robber abandoned plans to take Stevie's mother to an ATM to withdraw cash when he saw Stevie.
"It tripped him out, and that's when they moved on," said Evans, who did not witness the incident. Jennifer Long declined to comment, saying her employers at the apartment complex would not allow it.
Stevie likes to think he cuts an intimidating figure in his red-and-black mask and foam suit that replicates the rippling muscles of the kiddie adventure show heroes. But Evans said the robber was more startled that Stevie was able to retreat to his bedroom and morph.
>>>...A counselor said Stevie needs to improve his distinction between fantasy and reality, said Heather Evans, Stevie's aunt. "He fully believed he morphed," she said>>>
Yes, if you were truly realistic, by this counselor's mindset, you would actually just cower in the corner and promise to be nice while they robbed, raped and plundered.
Carolyn
You and I are not at all in any disagreement on this! ;>
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