Kidnap victim saved by the PSP

[Pebb]

Source: Joystiq

A Tennessee man who was kidnapped and tortured for nine days in a motel managed to escape thanks in part to the Sony PSP.

According to an FBI report obtained by the Knoxville News Sentinel, one of the two assailants had given the other a hand-held video game that he played "virtually all day that day and much of the night." (GamePolitics later confirmed from an FBI filing that it was a PSP.) The victim loosened his bindings while the kidnapper played and, when the he had fallen asleep, used the opportunity to escape.

Both men have been arrested in connection to the incident; there is an investigation as to the mens' involvement in similar cases.

 

[ExigeEvan]

I wouldn't say that the PSP saved him, but there you go.

 

[V1P3R]

Oh... I was expecting that the kid used the internet it alert the authorities where he was. Or pegging the kidnapper upside the head with it...

 

[Tornado]

Or pegging the kidnapper upside the head with it...

PSP. Now with theft deterrent.

 

[DuckRacer]

Article translation: kidnapper incompetence helps victim escape

 

[Gashlycrumb]

Oh, I was hoping that he had broken the PSP and used the sharpened plastic shards to cut through his ropes and then used the battery pack to electrocute his kidnappers and the reflective backing on the LCD display to signal a passing police helicopter. But then maybe I just watched to much MacGyver as a kid.