Elderly Man Who Was Bound By Robbers Chews His Way To Freedom

Elderly Man Who Was Bound By Robbers Chews His Way To Freedom

Thank goodness for dentures.

Lester Matteson in Shoreline, Washington, is 92, lives in a log cabin and is a hero to a group of third-graders in Tennessee.

It's all because of an incident last December when he was robbed at home and the thieves duct taped him to a dining room chair. But, hero that he is, Matteson freed himself by chewing his way through the tape.

Now the third graders have declared him their "hero of 2001."

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