ボクは獣レンジャー!!(゜ω゜)
とっとと英語ニュース 'MIGHTY' MITE 4, BEATS BANDITS 'MORPHIN' MOVE SAVES THE DAYNovember 30, 2006 -- DURHAM, N.C. - A robber was holding a gun to 5-year-old Mary Long's head when a 3-foot-tall Mighty Morphin Power Ranger leaped 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. Two men had approached Jennifer Long's boyfriend and his son as they stood outside the apartments she helps manage, according to a police report. The strangers asked for pot, and then a cigarette. 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. 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. Scripps Howard 元ニュース ⇒ http://www.nypost.com/seven/11302006/news/nationalnews/mighty_mite_4__beats_bandits_nationalnews_matt_dees.htm 【かおるんのひとこと】 アメリカ南部ノースカロライナ州のお話。 4歳の男の子が、獣レンジャーの格好で銃を持った強盗を撃退し、 ニュースになっています。 アパートに11月24日、強盗が押し入り、 5歳の女の子の頭に銃を突きつけました。 その時、部屋には母親ら6人がいましたが、 女の子の弟、4歳のスティービー・ロングくんは隙を見て脱出。 寝室で人気ヒーローのコスチュームに着替え、 おもちゃの刀を振り回しながら再び現れたところ、 強盗は、これに驚き、逃げ出したということです。 ・・・かおるん的には、宝石などめぼしい金品を すでに手に入れたので、そうそうにずらかったのだと思います。(´_`) でも、少年をヒーローとして扱う、 アメリカのジャーナリストってカッコイイ!(゜∀゜) "I scared the bad guys away," Stevie said. 貴金属などが奪われる被害はありましたが、 家族にけがはなく、一家の身を守った少年は鼻高々な様子です。 めでたし。めでたし。(*'ω'*) かおるん、メルマガも書いています⇒早速、ご登録 ホームページも頑張ってます⇒とっとと英会話に遊びにいく