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January 31, 2004
One Smart Kid
I was always allowed to take a gun with me to check out suspicious noises.
Joshua Cary wasn't sure what the noise was in his family's basement Thursday afternoon in Sullivan, but he wasn't taking any chances. The 14-year-old picked up a sword and went to investigate.
"I'm going to give you until the count of three to come out or I'm going to stab you," he yelled, according to his mother, Rebecca Cary.
For all Joshua knew, the threat might produce a stray cat trying to keep warm. Instead, a handcuffed man emerged saying, "I didn't do it."
Joshua took the man upstairs at swordpoint. His mother ran outside where police were searching for a prisoner who had escaped earlier in the day. They took the man, Mark A. Brown, back into custody.
The sword was part of a collection belonging to Joshua's brother, who enlisted in the Army in 2001 and is in Fort Riley, Kan., awaiting deployment to Iraq.
"They were basically decorations," Cary said. "But he told Joshua he needed to take care of his mom and sister, and he did."
Man of the house, taking care of business. Good thing he isn't in Canada. The police never would have found the escapee.
Posted by Nukevet at January 31, 2004 07:02 AM