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Neighbours hail farmer as hero after he uses turban to pull drowning woman to safety
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| June 28, 2016
| Ashley Legassic
Posted on 06/29/2016 1:49:15 AM PDT by Ketill Frostbeard
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The Sikh MacGyver :) Well done.
To: Ketill Frostbeard
A “hero” would have jumped in to save her. Using a turban is like using a rope.
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posted on
06/29/2016 2:20:15 AM PDT
by
raybbr
(That progressive bumpers sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
To: raybbr
The Red Cross teaches life guards,”Reach, row,throw,go”. This person may not have been a strong enough swimmer to drag the victim back, but he did bring her ashore.
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posted on
06/29/2016 2:29:08 AM PDT
by
jmcenanly
("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
To: Ketill Frostbeard
It didn’t end in an honor killing...no muslims involved.
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posted on
06/29/2016 2:45:32 AM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: raybbr
Yeah a hero would have jumped in and drown with her.
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posted on
06/29/2016 3:02:55 AM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: raybbr
The important point is to save the person—not to do something that looks heroic.
If the rope method didn’t work or wasn’t available, jumping in might very well be in order, but it is much more risky to both parties—not only might the rescurer be drowned (most likely unintentionally by the first person in), but a drowned rescuer really isn’t much use.
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posted on
06/29/2016 3:22:22 AM PDT
by
Hieronymus
( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton))
To: Kartographer
Yeah, but throwing her a rope doesn’t make him a hero.
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posted on
06/29/2016 3:56:36 AM PDT
by
raybbr
(That progressive bumpers sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
To: raybbr
He’s Sikh, most are good people just waiting to become Christians. Thank God this story has a happy ending.
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posted on
06/29/2016 4:02:10 AM PDT
by
Bulwyf
To: raybbr
Yeah, he’s such a slacker loser for saving her/s
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posted on
06/29/2016 4:07:42 AM PDT
by
leaning conservative
(snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
To: Hieronymus
The important point is to save the personnot to do something that looks heroic.No sh!t Sherlock. That's not what I meant. Calling what he did "heroic" is a misuse of the term.
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posted on
06/29/2016 4:19:22 AM PDT
by
raybbr
(That progressive bumpers sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
To: raybbr
Yeah, but throwing her a rope doesnt make him a hero.Yeah, and having the ability to post on FR doesn't mean that you have any intelligence or relevance either. You're obviously just a loser.
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posted on
06/29/2016 4:20:32 AM PDT
by
2nd amendment mama
( www.2asisters.org | Self defense is a basic human right!)
To: raybbr
In the drowning woman’s eyes he most certainly is a hero for saving her.
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posted on
06/29/2016 4:22:15 AM PDT
by
2nd amendment mama
( www.2asisters.org | Self defense is a basic human right!)
To: Ketill Frostbeard
"Avtar, a Sikh, thought on his feet, and took his turban off to help pull the girl in.Cool, I knew when I saw the headline that the good guy was a sikh. A towel wouldn't have reached, one would think.
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posted on
06/29/2016 5:24:25 AM PDT
by
OKSooner
(It isn't "Radical Islam", it is FUNDAMENTALIST ISLAM. (Posted by LegendHasIt, June 12th, 2016))
To: raybbr
You might ax the girl’s opinion before popping off like that.
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posted on
06/29/2016 5:25:16 AM PDT
by
OKSooner
(It isn't "Radical Islam", it is FUNDAMENTALIST ISLAM. (Posted by LegendHasIt, June 12th, 2016))
To: OKSooner
Too bad Vikings didn’t wear turbans; they seem to have alternative uses for survivalists...
Possible a few fashionable Vikings in the Varangian Guards assigned to the Eastern Emperor in Constantinople might have adopted them ;)
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posted on
06/29/2016 6:08:53 AM PDT
by
Ketill Frostbeard
("Socialism is the Sword of Islam, and Islam is Satan clothed in flesh.")
To: raybbr
Um, you’re the only one coming to your defense. Not a positive sign dude.......
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posted on
06/29/2016 6:29:56 AM PDT
by
leaning conservative
(snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
To: leaning conservative
I once saved my 10 year old nephew from drowning by swimming with him undertow. Today is my 71st. B/Day, I doubt very much that I could do it again, we’d both wind up drowning and I’d be wishing, “If I only had a rope or something similar handy”.
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posted on
06/29/2016 7:26:31 AM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(Crooked Hillary's going down and I aint talkin about, on Huma.)
To: 2nd amendment mama
In the drowning womans eyes he most certainly is a hero for saving her.I may not meet the above freeper's high standards, but I've been known to call people "my hero" for opening the child-proof cap on a medicine vial.
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posted on
06/29/2016 7:36:58 AM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
(We will no longer surrender this country to the false song of globalism. –Donald Trump)
To: Hieronymus
Rescue of the non-swimmer often requires subduing the victim with a hold from behind, to avoid becoming subject to their panicked behavior. This requires a strong swimmer to make way to shore encumbered with one or more limbs involved with a holding action. Much less difficulty for a solo rescue swimmer, if the drowning victim has ceased struggle, as long as effective CPR can be immediately applied.
To: raybbr
Yeah, but drowning would. I bet if it was you in the river drowning and he threw you a rope you would refuse to grab it, because he didn’t have the guts to jump in and save you.
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posted on
06/29/2016 11:02:43 AM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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