A woman whose hands were bound during a robbery was rescued after police say she managed to send out a message saying “Help” using her toes.
Police say 39-year-old Amy Windom was the victim of a home invasion and was bound to her bed while an intruder went through her belongings.
Windom told police that the robber, who was wearing a ski mask, went for her laptop computer she advised him not to, saying that its location could be traced.
The robber moved on to take her other belongings and struck her in the head with a handgun before leaving her bound to the bed.
The woman’s boyfriend, John Hilton, tells the Atlanta Journal Constitution that he knew to call police after she contacted him with the emergency message online.
“I e-mail her every morning before I go to work. I saw her on AIM, and she ‘pinged’ me first and her first word was, ‘HELP. CALL 911. It was all caps.”
He also confirmed that the entire thing was done with her toes.
“She picked up the bag, she opened the computer, she did control-alt-delete [to unlock the computer], which is tough. All of it was done with her feet, because her hands were tied to the bed.”
Police say the suspect got away with the woman’s vehicle, a 2009 cream-colored Acura TSX, Georgia tag BGU-8496.
