He was saved by Ma Bell.
A Florida gas station clerk survived a shooting early Monday when his smartphone stopped a bullet.
The unidentified clerk was working at a Hess gas station in Winter Garden, near Orlando, around 4:45 a.m. when a man walked in, pulled a pistol and told him to empty the safe, local WESH-TV reported.
The clerk and another worker were unable to open the safe, which prompted the crook to leave the store.
He fired a shot on his way out, cops told the station.
The round nearly struck the clerk, but he didn’t realize it until later as he spoke to police.
He pulled his HTC phone out of his pocket and found the screen shattered and a bullet lodged in it.
The clerk was taken to a hospital as a precaution but didn’t suffer any serious injuries.
Authorities are hunting for the shooter, who is described as a black man around 6 feet tall. He was wearing a sweatshirt, a traffic vest and white gloves at the time of the robbery.
Winter Garden police Lt. Scott Allen told WESH, “For this gentleman to be as lucky as he is, it’s a good day for us.”
