A South Carolina woman pulled the ultimate self-defense move last week. When 16-year-old Antoine Miller entered her home with a serrated knife and forced her into the bedroom, she fought him off by biting his tongue in half. She spat the rest of Miller's tongue onto her kitchen floor, fled to a nearby gas station, and called the police, the Washington Post reports.
The 33-year-old woman (whose name hasn't been released) said she heard knocking at her front door early Friday morning. She checked twice and no one was there, but the third time she opened the door Miller was standing on her porch with a knife. She screamed, but Miller tackled her and punched her in the face. He dragged her into the bedroom, but when he tried to take off her shorts she kicked him in the groin.
“Now you have to die,” he told her, according to the police report.
The woman escaped and called the police, who began searching for Miller. In the end Miller's mother accidentally revealed his location—she called an ambulance for her son and, when asked what the problem was, answered "not having a tongue," which was kind of a giveaway. Cops found half of Miller's tongue on the woman's kitchen floor and put it on ice, but it's unclear whether doctors will be able to reattach it. Whatever happens in Miller's case, it'll be a while before he can testify.
