Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe MEMPHIS, June 16 (UPI) -- A 92-year-old Washington state man who used his false teeth to chew through the duct tape with which he was tied up received an award from a third grade class. The class at Berclair Elementary in Memphis picked Lester Matteson of Shoreline, Wash., to receive the 2011 hero medal after he used his dentures to chew through the duct tape thieves had used to tie him to a kitchen chair in December, KOMO-TV, Seattle, reported Thursday. Advertisement "Oh, I think they're the heroes. They're the little heroes," Matteson said of the class. Matteson was suggested to the class by 8-year-old Haley Dunwoody. "I think he's a hero, 'cause he used fake teeth to chew through tape when he got robbed," the girl said.
