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Chris Spags — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:30:32 +0000

When a man saves your life after you drunkenly careen into a canal, you would think you’d be grateful. Apparently not, since one 23-year-old Delaware woman said she would kill the man who rescued her, Chris Sullivan, for breaking her back windshield.

Police said a 23-year-old Delaware woman who was allegedly driving drunk careened into a bayside canal, sinking her car, and would have drowned if a bystander hadn’t rescued her.

“He, no doubt in my mind, saved her life,” said Ocean City police spokeswoman Jessica Waters. “When you look up ‘hero’ in the dictionary, that’s what you find. Thank goodness he was there.”

He came down to the ground in an effort to help. He said he could hear Vanderhook talking to someone on a phone and that she was not able to open her passenger windows to escape. He watched as the water filled the cabin, leaving 6-10 inches of air, and sought an object large enough to break the glass. He dove three times into the water, looking for ways to get her out.

Finding nothing, he ran back toward his restaurant for help and tripped on a wooden plank, which he used to bust open the vehicle’s rear windshield, giving Vanderhook an opening to escape the sinking car.

“She said, ‘Dude, I’m gonna kill you — you broke my car.’ I said, ‘Darling, you gotta get out, or you’re going to die,’ ” Sullivan said.

Man saves driver of sinking car [Delaware Online]

Man falls 30 feet to save a woman committing suicide

Chris Spags — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:28:11 +0000

In the biggest tale of heroism you’ll read today, a Pennsylvania man saved a woman about to commit suicide, maneuvering his body underneath hers to protect her during the fall. Somehow, they both survived the fall. Way to go, real life Batman.

The man, Robert E. Smith Jr. of Allentown, Pa., was working as an attendant at a mental health facility at the time of the incident. He was startled to find a 20-year-old female patient he knew climbing onto the fire escape and heading to the roof of the three story building.

“My nephew was the first one to get out there. He was closest to the location,” the man’s uncle,Thomas Katchisin, told the Philadelphia Inquirer.

“He knew the patient. He began to talk to her. . . She was definitely threatening to jump. . . . She went to go and he lunged forward to try and stop her, and she grabbed onto his clothing and pulled him over with her.”

Smith will need to undergo several surgeries to repair his injuries, but he was fortunate to escape with no serious spinal injury or head trauma.

Kudos to Mr. Smith for undertaking such a brave act. In a reward for his bravery, and with an eye towards cutbacks across the state budget, here’s hoping Pennsylvania hires him to replace those airbags firemen have for people jumping out of buildings. At the very least, it seems like a safe assumption that Mr. Smith would be a very comfortable couch or beanbag chair and he’d be able to squawk out, “Eh, it’s a living” like a dinosaur appliance on “The Flintstones.”

Man falls 30 feet saving suicidal woman [Philly.com]

Naked man stops burglar from stealing car

Chris Spags — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:02:11 +0000

I personally love it when regular people overcome fear and stop some douche from doing something highly illegal. So how could it get any better? By this hero, Justin Chentnik, opting to do his crimestopping in the nude. Me-OW.

Chentnik jumped out of bed and saw the reverse lights on [roommate Laura] Nelson’s 2003 Mitsubishi Montero. Indifferent to his lack of clothing, he ran from his house in the 2800 block of Seventh Street in Boulder, opened the passenger-side door of the moving car and took the keys out of the car. Nelson called police.

The man who had tried to drive away in the car jumped out, Chentnik said, and the two men began struggling in the street. Chentnik grabbed the man by his shirt and pulled him onto the lawn.

“I was naked, and I thought, ‘If I’m going down, I better not do it in the street,’” he said.

The man had a full wine bottle — a Louis Jadot Pinot Noir — and hit Chentnik on the head with it, he said. Chentnik then grabbed the bottle and hit the man in the face.

When police arrived five minutes later, they found Chentnik straddling the man’s chest in his front yard.

“I needed Skip [his dog] to bring me my underwear,” he said.

I wonder if the criminal didn’t break away from Chentnik’s straddling because of being trapped or if he just enjoyed the view. What an uncomfortable time to have a stirring life realization.

If I were the criminal, I’d have just started crying and said it was a lover’s quarrel. Sure, maybe the police would find out the truth, but naked dude would have been so busy explaining it all away, I could probably just whistle and sneak away. Some master criminal this guy is.

[Colorado Daily]