{"id":2326,"date":"2025-05-20T22:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T22:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/?p=2326"},"modified":"2025-05-20T22:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T22:45:15","slug":"13-year-old-boy-stops-kidnapper-with-a-3-toy-his-mom-bought-for-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/?p=2326","title":{"rendered":"13-year-old boy stops kidnapper with a $3 toy his mom bought for him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thirteen-year-old Owen Burns from Alpena Township, Michigan, was about to play \u201cCall of Duty: Black Ops II\u201d when he heard his 8-year-old sister screaming outside. Looking out the window, he saw a man dragging her toward the woods<\/p>\n<p>Acting quickly, Owen grabbed his \\$3 slingshot and fired a marble and a rock\u2014hitting the kidnapper between the eyes and on the chest. <\/p>\n<p>The man, a 17-year-old, fled. Thanks to Owen\u2019s bravery, his sister was saved. The siblings called their mom, who alerted police. Michigan State Police later arrested the suspect, who will be charged as an adult.<\/p>\n<p>Owen saved his sister\u2019s life or from something seriously bad,\u201d said Lt. John Grimshaw, calling the act \u201cextraordinary.\u201d Police confirmed the suspect had injuries consistent with the slingshot attack<\/p>\n<p>Initially, Owen\u2019s mother couldn\u2019t believe his story. \u201cStuff in the movies can and do happen in real life,\u201d Owen told her.<\/p>\n<p>Owen\u2019s heroic actions earned widespread praise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirteen-year-old Owen Burns from Alpena Township, Michigan, was about to play \u201cCall of Duty: Black Ops II\u201d when he heard his 8-year-old sister screaming outside. Looking out the window, he saw a man dragging her toward the woods Acting quickly, Owen grabbed his \\$3 slingshot and fired a marble and a rock\u2014hitting the kidnapper between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2328,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326\/revisions\/2328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}