A laptop and passerby have helped save a man who was attacked with a crossbow.

[Bradyns]

[QUOTE]A laptop and passerby have helped save a man who was attacked with a crossbow and axe on the New South Wales Central Coast.
Police said the 56-year-old man was standing in the driveway of his Somersby home when a crossbow was shot at him on Tuesday afternoon.

The bolt narrowly missed the man, instead hitting his laptop, before the attacker allegedly smashed an axe into the victim's head.

A passerby then came to the rescue, bringing the attack to a halt, before the assailant was arrested by police.

Source:
[url]http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-16/laptop-passerby-saves-man-from-axe-and-crossbow-attack/5599904[/url][/QUOTE]

[Complifused]

A medieval time traveller?

[joshdasmif]

[QUOTE=Bradyns;45402291]the attacker allegedly smashed an axe into the victim's head.[/QUOTE]

Wasn't expecting that, seems like the axe would be more unsettling as a headline than the crossbow; but that's just me I guess

[Warship]

What the hell kind of stuff has this guy done to make people shoot arrows at him?

[noh_mercy]

I cant understand how you can smash an axe into someone's head, and not kill them.

[RaikohZX]

Vaguely reminds me of the time some kids threw rocks at cars on a highway, and then one of the cars came back and the driver shot one of the kids with a crossbow.

Who the hell randomly tries to kill a man in his driveway with such weapons, anyway? Sounds like he literally just fired at the guy and then bumrushed him.

[A B.A. Survivor]

What was the guy's motive?
And what kind of a crappy axe was the guy using that the victim only had to get stitches?

[cecilbdemodded]

The attacker was also carrying knives and a piece of wire. So the plan was:
1. Crossbow
2. Axe
3. Knives, probably from smallest to biggest
4. Wire, either as a garrote or for some wildly optimistic attempt to connect him to a source of deadly electricity

[Thlis]

Did the laptop survive?

[Warship]

[QUOTE=Thlis;45402473]Did the laptop survive?[/QUOTE]

Probably just busted the screen, if I had to guess.

[Bradyns]

[QUOTE=Complifused;45402320]A medieval time traveller?[/QUOTE]

Well, the Central Coast is a bit backwards, so he may have just escaped the confines of the coast.

[Scot]

I thought this was going to be about someone googling how to save a man from an arrow wound.