Tied Up Woman Gets Help by Typing With Toes
Woman uses toes to type her way to a rescue.
Having your home broken into is awful and incredibly scary, but it's much worse if you're actually home when it happens. Most of us can only imagine what it would be like to be tied up by an intruder and left to figure out a way out of our predicament. 39-year-old Amy Windom was put in that exact situation and she came up with a unique way to send for help.
Windom's home was broken into at around midnight on Tuesday. The armed intruder held Amy at gunpoint for an hour while he went through her stuff. He then tied her to her bed before stealing her car. Amy lay there for four hours, worried that the burglar would come back and trying to figure out a way to escape.
A little after 4 a.m., Amy noticed that the robber had left her laptop on the foot of her bed. He had planned to take it, but Windom told him there was a way to track it, and he'd best not bring it with him. Amy pried her laptop open with her feet and managed to hit control-alt-delete to unlock the machine. She then used one big toe on the trackpad and her power cord, which she wedged between her toes, to tap out IM messages to her boyfriend.
Her boyfriend called 911 and the police arrived a few minutes later to find Amy still bound to her bed.
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Wow, she types well with her toes (all things considered).
That is a nice skill to have handy, I'd like to see James Bond pull that off!
Wow, she types well with her toes (all things considered).
She types better with her toes than some people do with their fingers.
She types better with her toes than some people do with their fingers.
True that, true that...
Did you guys read the picture?
John: Can I come over?
He is obviously a rapist or a /b/tard.
And now she buys a shotgun.
To be fair a lot of people with bad typing are only using one hand... [/joke]
Did you guys read the picture?John: Can I come over? He is obviously a rapist or a /b/tard.
Did you not read the article? He is her boyfriend, of course he wants to come over and help his girlfriend.
That's your retarded and nasty mind.
Most will read into it he was asking if she needed him to come over to help AFTER he made call to police.
Amazing. Try pressing CTR_ALT_DEL with your toes.
She probably got a CTRL_WIN_ALT_DEL_END...
First of all, it took her 4 hours to realize the laptop was there?
and second of all, she shud have let him take it, and found another way to get out... but i guess if she didn't, it's all good
First of all, it took her 4 hours to realize the laptop was there?and second of all, she shud have let him take it, and found another way to get out... but i guess if she didn't, it's all good
Its quite clear you've a) never been tied up (get a kinky girl or boyfriend) and b) never been in shock from a traumatic event in the middle of the night.
She im'ed her boyfriend who was up at 4 am? Why was he awake at 4 and be availabe to IM. That's just my thing, either way I hope they found her robber
Did you guys read the picture?John: Can I come over? He is obviously a rapist or a /b/tard.
Did it occur to you that maybe he didn't want to get shot, several times probably, if the guy was still there? This was before he asked that question, buddy...
Let's think and read the whole article before we start bashing on people. I'd say that was an excellent thing for him to ask.
I, for one, actually enjoy reading articles like this. If you want news, go watch CNN or something. I'd say Tom's is doing a good job of keeping a good variety of articles on here.
I, for one, actually enjoy reading articles like this. If you want news, go watch CNN or something. I'd say Tom's is doing a good job of keeping a good variety of articles on here.
He means the spam in the comments section, not the article.
Huhn.... never knew anyone that good with they're feet, except for someone who creepily pinched me with them before.
Pro status. 'Nuff said
So it didn't prompt for password after pressing ALT+CTRL+DEL?
Imagine if the pass is like 12 char. lower/upper case + sybmols... and you can't see what you type :-)
I doubt she had low jack software on, but cool that she said to save her laptop. If thief took here laptop then police would be able to track down them down.
that boyfriend has been evaluated to husband status after the incident.
yet another point for wireless internet.
Not a blonde for sure.
Ok, next keyboard design: tow friendly...
If she couldn't stand, why didn't she flop over to the kithen like a fish, use her toes to pull out the knife drawer and free herself?
Good improvisation.
If she couldn't stand, why didn't she flop over to the kithen like a fish, use her toes to pull out the knife drawer and free herself?
...
Is it really that hard to read the article? She was tied to the bed...
Damn, she can type really well with her toes! I'd never be able to pull something like this off.
it's good she got a regular laptop. try typing with your toes on a blackberry. another good thing, John is an early bird and keeps his laptop on at that time.
...Is it really that hard to read the article? She was tied to the bed...
Maybe he's a "quick" reader... lol
Wow, she types well with her toes (all things considered).
I've always wondered if anyone actually "considered all things?"