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A 14-year-old boy came face to face with a burglar ransacking his Mesa home on Tuesday and used a baseball bat to level the playing field.
Michael Six hid in his bedroom closet and called 911 after seeing a man using a screwdriver to break into a sliding-glass door.
The Kino Junior High ninth-grader talked in a low voice as he described the burglar's whereabouts.
Then, Michael, clutching an aluminum baseball bat, heard his locked bedroom door rattle as the man used the screwdriver to bust in.
"You need to get out of the window," the 911 operator told Michael.
"I can't," he answered with a hint of anxiety in his voice.
"I didn't know what to do," Michael said Wednesday. "I didn't think I could pop (the window) open. My adrenaline was running. I was scared."
The man was still clutching the screwdriver as he rummaged through the boy's backpack. Then, Michael, a 5-foot-10-inch, 150-pound former baseball player, stepped out and swung.
The burglar cursed as Michael nailed him on the lower back and on the left shoulder.
"Sorry, man!" Michael yelled amid the chaos. Michael said the man, described as "big," then "turned around and took (the bat) from me."
The burglar ran out the back as Michael, uninjured, busted through a window and met police.
Police arrested Thomas Gonzales Garza, 30, of Chandler.
LMFAO this might be the funniest piece of audio I have ever heard... I copied what my local morning show played. The wma can be downloaded here =)
Wow... That's... certainly something. I don't know what yet, but it <b>is</b> something. That must have felt good though, hitting a burgler with a baseball bat.
The only word I can think of is "owned."
Awesome.
But he let the guy go, he didn't beat him into submission. Otherwise, pretty cool.
Yeah, I heard about this earlier in the week and all of could think of was, "Way to go, kid!"
If he'd done that in the UK, I imagine he'd have been prosecuted for grievous bodily harm or assault or something...
If not, the police would have publicly admonished him for taking the law into his own hands.
Yay Britain.
DW
That's a bit harsh, DW. The burglar might not've physically attacked him, but the courts've been less harsh than they used to be about "reasonable force" when defending property.
The kid had every right to believe he was being threatened, and he used enough force to deter the guy without doing serious damage.
I doubt he'd get into any serious trouble - or that you could find a jury willing to convict.
