14 DAY TRIAL // We've heard of burglars breaking into people's homes to get their expensive hardware equipment a lot of times before. Some even steal PS3s on the street in daylight. This story is no different from other stories of the sort, except for one "little" detail. The victim chased the two burglars going after his PS3, with a Katana (samurai sword), stabbing one of them straight in the chest. Serves them right!
"Last Friday afternoon, Local 10.com reports, Damian Fernandez and his 15-year-old sister, Deanne Fernandez, were home alone at their northwest Miami-Dade County home while their parents were at work when they heard knocking on the front door." The two burglars of course forced the door open, prompting Deanne to hide in her closet. "I was so scared," she said.
Ah yes, but the karate brown belted teenager, who was sleeping in the next room, heard all the commotion and went for the sword. While the burglars ransacked their parents' room, taking some jewelry before moving on to what they were really after (the PlayStation3), Damian waited for them quietly. According to a police report, one of the burglars kicked in Deanne's bedroom door (she said she could see his foot through the closet panels).
This is the moment when one of the burglars found the empty PlayStation3 box and ran out of the room, only to be "lunged" at with his samurai sword, and get stabbed in the chest. Damian said that the burglar "freaked out."
While one of the thieves managed to get away, Javier Cotera, 21, was caught hiding behind a neighbor's palm tree.
However, this is a lucky case of burglars coming into peoples' homes to get valuable objects. Imagine one of the thieves had a gun. Damian and Deanne's father, Delio Fernandez, said: "If he would have had a gun, I could have lost one of my children."
Good thing it all ended with a minor stab wound...