http://www.startribune.com/local/south/19562209.html
This story contains a lot of details about what happened to Mr. Traub on May 11th. There's a lot of sobering stuff in it.
Summary:
Two men broke into Traub's Burnsville home on May 11, stabbing him -- 17 times in the back, twice in the head and once in the cheek-- and setting seven fires in his home before fleeing in his car. He was hospitalized for a day and a half and is living in an apartment for several months until his home, which was heavily damaged by smoke, is habitable again.
Then read about what happened before the fires:
"So he tells me; 'You gotta pick A or B. And you pick the right answer, you live, and you pick the wrong answer, you die,'" Traub remembered. "I was laying there, I thought I was conscious through all of it, but looking back on it, I probably wasn't."
And after he came to, he ended up running through a fire to flee his house and go to a neighbor to get help.
The upside, if you could call it that is that a lot of people are being more careful now; their complacency has been reset...for a while:
Traub said that his neighbors are more conscious now of locking garages and locking doors.
"They've got a more heightened awareness of people walking in the neighborhood," he said. "In a sense, it's a good thing ... [but] it's a shame that we have to resort to things like that."
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