Tough, Lucky Or Both

A Colorado man who lost a leg last October in an accident involving a tractor trailer returned home to find a gun-wielding burglar inside his home. So he whacked on the burglar with one of his crutches. Whereupon the juvenile Dillinger shot him in the chest.

But the bullet was partially deflected by a cell phone.

Roger Baxter survived the Tuesday incident after a cell phone apparently slowed a bullet to his chest.

"I just got it programmed," Baxter said of the phone.

Baxter lost his right leg after being hit by a tractor-trailer in October. He was returning from getting a haircut when he discovered the man with a gun inside his house.

"He was pointing it at me," Baxter told KDVR-TV. "He kept coming toward me and he got within 5 foot of me and that's when I hauled off and hit him with one of my crutches."

Baxter is either very tough or very lucky. Though I suspect it's both.

"It's not my time," said Baxter, a Vietnam veteran. "I went head to head against a semi back in October and today I went up against a 9 mm and I'm here. I'm just a tough old bird."

Good luck, Mr. Baxter and a speedy recovery.