{"id":3505,"date":"2011-03-24T12:05:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T12:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.sellcell.com\/blog\/?p=681"},"modified":"2019-04-12T10:53:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T10:53:07","slug":"cell-phone-saves-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/cell-phone-saves-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell Phone Saves Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/gun.gif\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-682\" title=\"gun\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/gun.gif\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-682 lazyload\" title=\"gun\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20180%20120%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/gun.gif\"><\/a>A cell phone became an unlikely hero following a shooting that occurred during a robbery in Cleveland in the United States on Tuesday.&nbsp; Sixty-nine year old John McCurley was working in his shop, John\u2019s Used Auto Parts on Meech Street, when a gunman walked into the store and demanded money.&nbsp; Sources say the gunman panicked when a customer, forty-seven year old Doug Jones, walked into the store, shot McCurley and ran for it.&nbsp; Amazingly, however, it seems that a handily placed cell phone situated on McCurley\u2019s person may have deflected the course of the bullet and actually saved the man\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>A co-worker alerted store employee Steve Smith to the drama.&nbsp; \u201cHe came running across and said \u201cthe boss just got shot\u201d, so I ran across the street,\u201d Smith says.&nbsp; \u201cThere\u2019s a guy sitting on the stairs holding his belly\u2026 and I go in, my boss is laying in the hallways, just got two bullets in him.\u201d &nbsp;Smith attempted to stabilize his long-time boss until paramedics arrived, only to make a startling discovery.&nbsp; The cell phone seemed to deflect the path of one of the bullets away from McCurley\u2019s heart where it would surely have been fatal.&nbsp; \u201cHis phone was in his pocket, it was like crumpled up in his shirt, so I took his phone out,\u201d Smith remembers.&nbsp; \u201cIt looked like an ice cream cone and I set it on the counter.&nbsp; And that\u2019s when I ripped his shirt open and you could see the bullet hole was right under his nipple and apparently the phone deflected it down into his kidney\u2026 saved his life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The gunman has not yet been apprehended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cell phone became an unlikely hero following a shooting that occurred during a robbery in Cleveland in the United States on Tuesday.  Sixty-nine year old John McCurley was working in his shop, John\u2019s Used Auto Parts on Meech Street, when a gunman walked into the store and demanded money.  Sources say the gunman panicked when a customer, forty-seven year old Doug Jones, walked into the store, shot McCurley and ran for it.  Amazingly, however, it seems that a handily placed cell phone situated on McCurley\u2019s person may have deflected the course of the bullet and actually saved the man\u2019s life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1824],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cell Phone Saves Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/cell-phone-saves-life\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cell Phone Saves Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A cell phone became an unlikely hero following a shooting that occurred during a robbery in Cleveland in the United States on Tuesday. 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