Saved by Smartphone

On Oct 15, 2021

BRAZIL: Most of us have our mobile phones attached to our bodies like an extra limb. While we have all been told to get off the phone and reduce screen time at least once in our lives, it is holding onto the phone that saved a citizen’s life in Brazil. And, might we add, this man was having no ordinary brush with death. The man in question was a victim of an armed robbery in Brazil recently. He was shot at during the incident, but the bullet only grazed past his hip. This happened because much of the impact was borne by a five-year-old Motorola smartphone that stopped the bullet.

The coolest part of this story is that the G5 phone which turned saviour for the day also had an Incredible Hulk phone case on it.

As per the Daily Mail, the attempted robbery occurred in a rural area of the municipality of Petrolina, in the northeast of the country on October 7. The victim was admitted to the University Hospital in the city of Petrolina.

The images of the phone were posted on social media by Pedro Carvalho, one of the doctors who was attending to the victim. While shootouts at armed robberies often lead to tragic deaths and irreversible damage, doctors saw that in this case, it was the phone that absorbed most of the bullet’s impact. – NDTV