(H/T – MKH)
Reason number one to keep that No. 2 sharp:
TUCKER, Ga. — Quick thinking by a DeKalb County teenager may have saved her life, police said Monday.
Two men tried to kidnap the girl near Tucker Middle School Monday night, police said.
The 14-year-old was on her way home from dance practice when a black van pulled up, and the men tried to grab her, Police said, adding that the girl got away when she stabbed one of the men in the arm with a pencil. The girl was not seriously hurt, police said.
No word on whether it was a wood or mechanical pencil. Each has its advantages in self-defense. Wood pencils can be made extremely sharp, and the wood can leave one heck of a splinter, but they get dull. Mechanical pencils are always sharp, and some of them have metal tips that aid in penetration, but the lead tends to break off if extended too far, and most mechanicals don’t penetrate as deeply as woods.
It also pays to pay attention to one’s surroundings; the story also notes she recognized the van the perps were driving lurking around the middle school a few days prior.
