Robert J Turner

A Florida teenager used a samurai sword to chase off a burglar who was attempting to steal his PS3 console.Damian Fernandez, who holds a brown belt in karate, was home with his sister Friday afternoon when they heard a knock on the front door. As their parents were at work, they didn’t answer the door. To their surprise, moments later they heard the sounds of prying as two men attempted to force their way into the house. With his sister hiding in the closet, where she watched the burglars kick in her bedroom door, Damian went for his sword. “Once I saw him take off running back, I jumped off my (bunk) bed and I grabbed my sword … and I just waited for him,” he said. When the burglar reappeared, Damian lunged at him, striking him in the chest with the sword. Damian chased the perpetrators down the road, and police found one of them hiding behind a neighbor’s palm tree.

The burglars had apparently found the empty PS3 box, and were searching the house for the console. I imagine they were more than a little surprised to find a kid wielding a sword coming after them. Of course, with the current price tag on a PS3, I think I’d be willing to toss a sword around to protect mine too!