[thechat] Youth Saved by Harry Potter Book

[Elfur Logadottir]

From: "Madhu Menon"

| http://www.scrappleface.com/MT/archives/000989.html#000989
|
|  From the "Long live witchcraft" department:
|
| <quote>
|
| A 14-year-old Philadelphia boy was treated and released from a hospital
| this morning after being shot in the chest by a friend who wanted his new
| copy of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, according to a news
| release from Bloomsbury, the publisher of the book.
|
| Physicians say the boy would be dead but the bullet struck the 870-page
| book first, leaving the child with only minor injuries.
|
| </quote>

oh, and it only took 1 day to add yet another 100 pages to the book.
It started as 700, increased to 770 on sky throughout the night and is
hitting 870 on the web now.

rest assure, before too long it's going to weigh 2kg and be 989 pages long
;)

but, sure, a life saver - just like that other book in Teaching Mrs. Tingle
or whatever the movie was.

cheers
elfur
the cynical one