Moment mother holds up crucifix to teeth-baring attacker with ice pick who had taken

[RickyR]

Teeth bared and wild-eyed, this crazed attacker holds an ice pick to his young hostage's throat in an eight-hour ordeal which looked as if it could only end in tragedy.


But despite the terrible danger to the nine-year-old child's life, one brave woman remained astonishingly calm.


In a moment which could have come straight from a vampire movie, the woman - believed to be the boy's mother - confronted Reimer Parparan with a crucifix in Quezon City in the Philippines.

She was eventually able to step in and grab his arms, allowing police to tackle him and release the boy, identified as Mark Jason Pineda.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz21YFFSEPX

[Dedworth]

There should have been a Police sniper on hand to despatch the maniac

[CBM]

There should have been a Police sniper on hand to despatch the maniac

Maybe not - this is Manila's Finest we are talking about... remember this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manila_hostage_crisis

[Dedworth]

Oh yeah

[grahamw48]

Fast response team:

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[Dedworth]

[joebloggs]

ice picks should be banned in the phils, http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertai...with-ice-pick/

and why do they always pick on someone smaller than themselves

[CBM]

Not a nice weapon.