One Brave Kid
11-year-old Braydon Smith was home alone in his room when a burglar broke through the front door. The man told Braydon to hide in a closet, then started taking things from around the house. But Braydon remembered something his dad had told him: “If someone ever breaks in, don’t be afraid to fight back.” And that’s exactly what Braydon did.
“He pointed a pellet gun at me — it was one we had in the house. I knew it wasn’t loaded, so I just sat down and went into the closet like he told me,” Braydon explained. “Then he went into the living room to grab my phone, probably to make sure I couldn’t call 911.”
But the burglar had no idea Braydon wasn’t done. While the man’s back was turned, Braydon reached for a machete he kept nearby for clearing bushes. He ran at the burglar and hit him on the head. The man quickly ran out of the house, but he was later caught at a local hospital.
“I knew if I didn’t do something, he might take me with him… he could’ve done anything,” Braydon told a reporter.
Once it was all over, Braydon had just one question: would he still make it to his baseball game?