Today i'm a hero.

[angeleyes]

An hour ago i walked along an Amsterdam canal, saw two kids (both orange hair, about 7 years old), playing. Boy learns sister riding a bicycle. I walked through, hear a shout, look back, girl drives with bike in canal, boy jumps with her in canal. Wow, they are playing wild, i thought, and walked on. But, a bit unrest in my heart, can they swim? Further a woman began to shout: kids in the water. I hesitate, then walk, run back. Oh my God, they are holding eachother thight, heads becoming very red. Throw out my jacket, jump in the dirty canal, swim to them (about 5 meters from quayside). Get them both, then swim to the quay, its heavy, have no breath to shout for help. Then a man appeared above the quay, and helps me to get the children on the quay.

OK that's it. I'm rather unsociable (and hate telling a long story), so as soon as possible i run home, washed myself, wash my clothed, and here i'm telling my story.

Have you experienced something like this in your life?


EDIT: i don't really consider myself a hero, my life wasn't in danger, i only gave myself a wet suit

 

[Gelion]

I saved my dog in a mountain river in about the same way as you did.

I dont count the times when I pulled my friends from under cars, because there are many times they have done the same for me.... I dont think I've ever saved any person the way you did.

Kudos

 

[storealex]

That's very cool, you should be proud of your self

I have never saved someones life, but I did do first aid once. It was cool to see that my training worked and I could help the wounded guy and the police afterwards.

 

[newfangle]

Nicely done, sir.

 

[puglover]

Great job. I'm sure that meant a lot to plenty of people.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

A good citizen AND a CFCer, how could it get better?


Seriously, you sir have great honor.


I had a situation happen once. I was driving home from the college a few months ago. It was pouring down raining, I mean, straight up deluge. Traffic was steady, but great in volume. As I approached a turn in the road, I watched as a full-size van cross the center-line and nail the little Accord in front of me. The Honda does this crazy 720 and somehow regains control of the car in time to stop it from flying into the woods. I'm running on pure instinct, so I stomp on the brakes and pull off the road behind the Accord. I'm freaking out. I get out of my car and run to the Honda. It's still raining cats and dogs. I get to the car, and there's not a dent on it. She opens the door and says she's okay, which I ask her like five more times if she's okay, if everything's okay.
Satisfied that she's fine, I turn around to find the van, which I have no idea what it has done. I find it stopped across the road, about 300 yards away, with a cop car across the street from it. Apparently he was a few cars behind us when it happenned, so he was right there. I take a deep breath, realizse no one's dead, and go back to my car, now totally soaked from head to toe. Apparently, the Honda swerved at the same moment the van would have hit it; lemme tell you, from where I was, it looked like the van hit her. Good reflexes, I guess. So I stay in my car until the cop comes, I give him a quick eywitness of what happenned, and go about my business.

 

[Miles Teg]

Good for you! I wonder what the kids thought about the affair

 

[cubsfan6506]

I told someone to tie there shoe once.

 

[angeleyes]

[....] I wonder what the kids thought about the affair

I promised the father to visit him soon, so he can thank me, but i'm so unsociable, don't like the idea.
I also think the boy is the hero cause he jumps after his sister without thinking ....

 

[Atlas14]

I promised the father to visit him soon, so he can thank me, but i'm so unsociable, don't like the idea.
I also think the boy is the hero cause he jumps after his sister without thinking ....

You both are!

 

[bhsup]

You're selling yourself short, Angeleyes. You yourself said you were out of breath and couldn't shout for help. Had the children been so frightened as to actually fight against your attempt to help them, you yourself may have been in mortal danger as well.

Job well done, citizen!

 

[Guangxi]

well done!

 

[Red Door]

Thank you for doing your part as a citizen of the World.

 

[raen]

Thats very nice, you dont need to be with them or to be sociable, you only have to be good with yourself thats all.

I love beach and I am always in water, I didnt learn how to swim and even if I had I dont go to deep sea. One boy about 17 and his bother and sister, more little ones, gone swim passed by me to deep sea, and when they came back the boy at front get to it faster and left the kids behind, and they were not capable of doing it and were going desperate. I called their brother that was already at land and gone my self there by foot with water at my shin and helped them to go to shore. Nothing special but I felt good.

 

[Neomega]

good job.

You are a hero, and it is a wonderful thing when opportunities like that arise, and you get the chance to prove yourself.

These types of things don't happen often, but they do happen at least once or twice in every person's life, I believe.

 

[raen]

Damn now I noticed it was in the netherlands..I was there this summer, that canals freak me out because theres no security, a child can fell in easily...

very corageous of you once more

 

[angeleyes]

Damn now I noticed it was in the netherlands..I was there this summer, that canals freak me out because theres no security, a child can fell in easily... [....]

Yes, often there are no railings, i noticed that before, in this case there was nothing! And it's a new house estate! (just outside the centre).

 

[Leonel]

Awesome work! I'm sure there are people that would frown on you for not calling the police first and letting them do their job but I'm glad you were there!

 

[Jawz II]

That a wonderfull story. I kinda have a similar story (although it isnt as heroic as yours) that Ill tell.

Years ago (I think 7 years), I was working in this store. I went outside to take a smoke break, next door to the store was a travel agency. Out of that place came a man with a baby carriage and another small child on foot (Maybe 4-5 years or younger).

The travel agency has this heavy glas door and the guy is struggling to get the carriage through the door, meanwhile the little kid takes off running like a ******** monkey toward the street. I froze for a second and thought "crap, that kid is gonna be splattered all over the street".
This lady who worked at the travel agency who I kinda knew was out there smoking too, and since she had a leg in a cast, she couldnt do anything.

She looked at me and pointed at the kid made this sound, no words, just a sound, but I understood, I bolted for the kid and got her when she was about 50 cm from the busy lane. Actually I grabbed the back of her (his?) hood, she had like one of those 1 piece jump suits with a hood. So I held the hood in 1 hand and my cigarette in the other until the dad came and took the kid away and thanked me.

Later that night I told the story to my then girlfriend, and she didnt belive me.

I should add that I was never in any danger, neither was the kid, but where she was going there would defenitly be very dangerous.
There was this underpass thing that kind of morphed together with the rest of the road, and the people driving there had no way of seeing what was coming at them from the sides.

good job.

You are a hero, and it is a wonderful thing when opportunities like that arise, and you get the chance to prove yourself.

These types of things don't happen often, but they do happen at least once or twice in every person's life, I believe.

You got a cool story too, why dont you tell it again?

 

[Heretic_Cata]

You should be very proud of yourself angeleyes. You did a great thing.

Nice story Jaws. I have a coleague like that - Never let go of the cigarette no matter what.


I don't think i ever saved anyone's life like that.

Well, when i was a kid we swarmed this guy who wanted to beat the neighbourhood dog with a club thing.