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  Inuyasha19 | August 16, 2007
  Extreme case of luck... but convinient for him. It'd have sucked to have lived in that hotel room on a day to day basis.
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  Reenee | August 16, 2007
  This would have been more newsworthy if the PSP was the actual tool used to do some communication, not a distraction. Else, just slamming it against the guy's face/balls would have been just as effective.
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  Strayfire | August 16, 2007
  Good advertising tagline, mesh what happened very indirectly into a direct phrase like "PSP saved my life" to give it some publicity. I'm not trying to underplay what happened to the guy, but accrediting the PSP with "saving his life" seems a very convenient overdramatization in this case, had he perhaps used the PSP to get a message out that saved him it would be different. The kidnappers had not shown any intent to kill the man, and being that they kept him alive and in custody for 9 days, they could've had they wanted to.
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    Krunal | August 16, 2007
    I'm fairly sure they wanted to get as much money out from him as possible, before killing him. Them having seen their faces, and knowing how they knew him, I'm fairly certain they would not have kept him alive at the end of the ordeal.
    
    As for as the PSP is concerned, if you think about it, it really was a saviour for him. You may not think much of it, but if you think about it, without the PSP to distract the guy, he wouldn't have been able to do what he did.
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  Revenger of Wastelan | August 16, 2007
  Lol i knew there would be more purposes for the consoles, they should add in the PSP's feature list : - Saves your life if yorue kidnapped by 2 men called Sanchez and Gonzales.
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  Evanster 69 | August 16, 2007
  Either the PSP is good or this guy is a complete moron.
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    Final Blade | August 17, 2007
    I'd say both. But who knows.
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  FRoGBuster | August 17, 2007
  in conclusion, if you're doing something important, try not to have a PSP near you.
  On the other hand, if someone else is doing something bad to you, try to place a PSP near them to distract them. (Note: not as effective with the DS, Xbox, or Wii)
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  DuKer NukeR | August 17, 2007
  I thought he would have used the PSP to call online for help, though its still pretty strange he escaped while the other guy was playing a game Oo
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    JJBDude | August 18, 2007
    That's what I was thinking was going to be the case when I read the title of this article, how a man used his console to secretely call for help. Instead he just got lucky as someone else was distratced from looking after him, still a interesitng story though.
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      Krunal | August 19, 2007
      To be honest, when I was reading this article, I thought... hmmm a guy was saved by a PSP, was he stupidly given a PSP by his kidnappers to pass time, and then he used it to call for help... how stupid could the kidnappers be... turns out they're stupider than that.
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  Solid Snake 4Life | August 17, 2007
  It was not the psp it was a console. Same thing could have happened with the DS.
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  Riku31069 | August 17, 2007
  The PSP is a livesaver! Either that or that man was really, really lucky.
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  Infinite Gravity | August 17, 2007

  quote

  Good advertising tagline, mesh what happened very indirectly into a direct phrase like "PSP saved my life" to give it some publicity. I'm not trying to underplay what happened to the guy, but accrediting the PSP with "saving his life" seems a very convenient overdramatization in this case, had he perhaps used the PSP to get a message out that saved him it would be different. The kidnappers had not shown any intent to kill the man, and being that they kept him alive and in custody for 9 days, they could've had they wanted to.

  I wouldn't say custody, perhaps just they took away his rights.
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  Avalith | August 19, 2007
  Nobody said criminals were smart... This just proves it.
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  xsynergyx | August 23, 2007
  Lucky guy that the kidnapper was too busy with his PSP. I guess the guy thought the PSP was pretty sweet if he got so addicted that he couldn't watch his 'hostage'. I wonder what game he was playing...I think I'll get it.