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  • Dad in distress (Teen daughters lift tractor off dad)

    04/10/2013 6:12:46 PM PDT · by Pan_Yan · 18 replies
    Albany Democrat-Herald ^ | April 07, 2013 7:00 am | Kyle Odegard, Albany Democrat-Herald
    Jeff Smith was pulling a stump from his garden near McDowell Creek Park on Monday, but his mud-caked boot slipped off the tractor’s clutch. The machine flipped upside down and on top of him. The steering wheel pinned the 36-year-old to the dirt, pressing into his chest. He yelled for help. “I was losing more and more breath every time I screamed,” he said. His daughters, just home from school, were walking the family’s dogs. “We heard, ‘Save me. Help me, God,’” said 14-year-old Haylee Smith, an eighth-grader at Hamilton Creek School. She and her sister Hannah Smith, a 16-year-old...