Knife wins over gun in bedroom close combat

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Knife wins over gun in bedroom close combat

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:04:56 PM EDT

Charlotte, N.C. — Fourteen-year-old Dante Gardin first hid in his closet from the burglars who broke into his Charlotte home .

But when one of them kicked in his locked bedroom door Saturday morning, Gardin told The Charlotte Observer, he decided to act.

Gardin said he cut the man on the stomach with a pocketknife he grabbed before he hid and the man dropped his gun.

The teen said when he grabbed the gun, the thieves left without taking anything.

Gardin said he called police, but officers could not find the green van he saw driving away.

The teen said he was home alone while his mother and little brother ran errands.
www.wral.com/news/state/story/3238909/

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:06:29 PM EDT

[#1]

w00t.

Somebody contact that kid and I'll pay for him a Gold membership here.

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:09:27 PM EDT

[#2]

It's not the weapon that counts,it's the fight that's in a person.

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:10:14 PM EDT

[#3]

hell yea

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:11:18 PM EDT

[#4]

damn quite the little meateater

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:11:56 PM EDT

[#5]

These new school athletic programs are really paying off.

Hand to hand combat.

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:12:56 PM EDT

[#6]

Good job kid....
though when I first read the title of this thread.....that someone had started another S&M/B&D thread.

Posted: 7/20/2008 7:15:18 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
It's not the weapon that counts,it's the fight that's in a person.

Absolutely.

Posted: 7/20/2008 8:38:46 PM EDT

[#8]

Damn good kid,buy him a chicken fried steak and a hooker

Posted: 7/20/2008 8:40:00 PM EDT

[#9]

Tough little bastard! Good job!

Posted: 7/20/2008 8:53:03 PM EDT

[#10]

Awesome job!!! Too bad there weren't college age kids with balls like him at Virginia Tech...

Posted: 7/20/2008 8:57:07 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
Awesome job!!! Too bad there weren't college age kids with balls like him at Virginia Tech...

WOOOAH! you have no real idea what happened in those class rooms, no need to assume no one put up a fight. I and many others would appreciate it if you would refrain from saying similar things in the future.

Posted: 7/20/2008 8:57:48 PM EDT

[#12]

Awesome kid.

He disembowled a burglar. Awesome.

Posted: 7/20/2008 8:57:58 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
Awesome job!!! Too bad there weren't college age kids with balls like him at Virginia Tech...

i agree, but why go there?

Posted: 7/20/2008 8:57:59 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
Awesome job!!! Too bad there weren't college age kids with balls like him at Virginia Tech...

i agree, but why go there?

Posted: 7/20/2008 9:34:49 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
Awesome job!!! Too bad there weren't college age kids with balls like him at Virginia Tech...

WOW, thats not needed at all.

Posted: 7/21/2008 5:42:39 AM EDT

[#16]

Nice. A little combat experience and a souvenir gun.

Posted: 7/21/2008 6:24:37 AM EDT

[#17]

balls of steel on the 14yo

TXL

Posted: 7/21/2008 6:27:47 AM EDT

[#18]

Question is - did he do it at a 45?

Posted: 7/21/2008 6:29:48 AM EDT

[#19]

I am glad the kid is OKAY.
Thinking about it for a minute, knife wounds are nasty and could take weeks to kill from infections alone. Gunshots are instant. Good job kid..... Make that burglar say UUGHHHH next time he lifts someone elses stuff.

Posted: 7/21/2008 6:31:57 AM EDT

[#20]

Way to go kid

Posted: 7/21/2008 6:32:40 AM EDT

[#21]

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