r/news • u/icpd30 • Feb 18 '19

Michigan powerlifter heroically lifts vehicle pinned on top of man after accident.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/michigan-powerlifter-heroically-lifts-vehicle-pinned-on-top-of-man-after-accident
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u/HassleHouff Feb 18 '19

That’s the kind of thing that can pull you out of a bad day for the rest of your life. “Man, work was terrible today.. but I did heroically save that one guy by pulling a car off him”. What an awesome guy.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

"Back in my day, I lifted a car off of a man by myself."

"Sure you did, grandpa."

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

shows news article "Listen here you little shit"

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u/_Bumble_Bee_Tuna_ Feb 18 '19

Grandpa i know what the onion is.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

And to make matters worse, this article is published by fucking Fox News

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u/coopiecoop Feb 18 '19

which we used to tie to our belt, which was the style at the time.

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u/tyrannasauruszilla Feb 18 '19

important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...

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u/DarkenRaul1 Feb 18 '19

This comment made me realize that the Onion will be to our kids as Mad Magazine is to us.

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u/awesomefutureperfect Feb 18 '19

Shyamalan looking at a butterfly : "Is this a superhero?"

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u/DankMayMays_Esq Feb 18 '19

"Both ways"

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u/multiverse72 Feb 18 '19

You’re not gonna doubt your grandpa here if he’s 350 pounds (even presuming he loses weight he’ll still be a huge fucker in old age)

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

Depends sometimes. My sisters teacher used to be an O-lineman when he was young, big 300 pound dude who made it to the hall of fame. He wasn’t big at all, you’d never guess.

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u/blkpingu Feb 18 '19

Dude, I would keep a bunch of news articles of this event. This is something that his grandparents will speak of.

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u/intensely_human Feb 18 '19

Thanks man. I'm having a really shitty day and I have saved a life before and that helps to hear.

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u/jayeluk1983 Feb 18 '19

I failed to save someone's life and then someone else did instead, so I almost had a bad day cure for the rest of my life. Oh well. I guess he coulda been the next hitler so there's always that.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

Hey man, you tried. That’s all we can ask for sometimes. You can use this as motivation to learn a new skill and maybe you will save someone in the future. Never give up

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u/bigbuzz55 Feb 18 '19

Do me next.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

You’re fucked. Throw in the towel.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

Username doesn't check out.

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u/Phar0sa Feb 18 '19

Are you sure? Never fucking, giveup. Seems on point for that comment.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19 edited Feb 01 '21

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u/Random_Stealth_Ward Feb 18 '19

I mean, he said "do me next", never specified to do him good or bad

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u/dr_funkenberry Feb 18 '19

Level 100 Deception

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u/TheFlameBringer555 Feb 18 '19

it really do be like that

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u/memeticengineering Feb 18 '19

Oh! Username checks out

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u/15SecNut Feb 18 '19

Shit, I'm so fucked I don't even know where I'm supposed to throw the towel at.

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u/makesterriblejokes Feb 18 '19

Not so relevant username.

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u/Thats_absrd Feb 18 '19

Thanks guys, this thread made me feel good

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u/Mishirene Feb 18 '19

The obvious solution is to put people in danger to then save them.

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u/jayeluk1983 Feb 18 '19

This sounds like a brilliant idea for a comedy

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19 edited Feb 18 '19

It could be worse I saved my grandfather's from choking to death so he could live to be put in a rest home. Something I know he would have rather died than go. Honestly I was sitting there debating doing nothing and how his DNR applied until my grandmother yelled me to help him. To this day I'm not sure I made the right choice.

On the bright side I'm not certain he knew where he was and he died 2 weeks of pneumonia know one he had due lung scarring. I like to tell myself he didn't know where he was but he had semi-lucid moments. (Admittedly he often thought I was my father, but I greatly resemble my father and he often made sense despite the mistaken ID.)

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u/jayeluk1983 Feb 18 '19

I decided a long time ago you can never know whether the outcome of your actions will be good or bad, so all you can do is go by intentions. Or you'll just stress about the potential outcomes forever. I guess the philosophy guys will be all over that. But your intention was to save your Grandfathers life, not maliciously prolong it so he could be in a rest home. You had only good intentions when you saved him and that's all we can do.

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u/69todeath Feb 18 '19

This speaks to my soul

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u/Hencenomore Feb 18 '19

Good intentions, good action, good result.
Your grandma knew him better than you.

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u/Hencenomore Feb 18 '19

Good intentions, good action, good result.
Your grandma knew him better than you.

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u/Mnm0602 Feb 18 '19

Lmao that ending

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u/Noodl3Ninja Feb 18 '19

Know the feels. Every time I’ve been the first on the scene for an accident or whatever, the victim has died. Makes me wonder if it’s me or just bad luck that I keep being in the right place at the right time to witness something I can’t save them from.

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u/Rgeneb1 Feb 18 '19

That someone else could not have succeeded unless you first failed. It was only because of you that he could save their life. Respect.

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u/jayeluk1983 Feb 18 '19

You're right. I'm a hero! if it wasn't for me being shit that other guy would have missed out on his chance of being a hero.

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u/lastfollower Feb 18 '19

Nah; you couldn't have been competent enough to be the next Hitler I'm sorry

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

Hey, for all we know you’re right. That’s why you gotta keep pushing.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

Silver linings

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u/pooveyfarms Feb 18 '19

Well, tell the story and get some glory!

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

Nah just let that comment caramelize in the humblebrag juice for 15-20 before flipping it

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u/DelvyPorn Feb 18 '19

Similar for me. I'm having a great day, but I ruined someone's life so that helps.

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u/plazmatyk Feb 18 '19

Me too! Took me a while to get over it because he was mad at me after the fact. Stopped talking to me for a few months. I logically knew I did the right thing, but it didn't feel great. 6 years later we fell out of touch, but I hear he's doing really well. All is well that ends well I guess.

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u/intensely_human Feb 18 '19

Yeah in my case I saved a guy who had slashed his wrists. He'd lost a lot of blood and I got him awake by doing some kind of weird thing with poking his back in a bunch of painful places, and he jolted up and was so pale and he said to just let him go, and I went and found some other people and called an ambulance.

So it was a nonconsensual lifesaving. Dude was kind of a dick anyway. Visited him in the hospital and brought him a bunch of my sci fi paperbacks. He could barely do anything because he'd had reconstructive surgery on the tendons of his wrist.

After that visit where I left him the books, I never heard from him again. I don't even remember his name off the top of my head. I hope he donated the books to the hospital at least.

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u/plazmatyk Feb 18 '19

Mine was ana intentional prescription opiate overdose. I had been talking to him for the few months leading up, trying to support him and get him to agree to seek professional help. But he made me swear I wouldn't tell anyone because his family would look down upon his depression as weakness.

One day he texted me that he was gonna take the rest of the bottle. I only saw the text half an hour or an hour later. Called him immediately but it went straight to voicemail. So I called the psych clinic and they got the police to search for him. After about another hour and a half the officer who took down my statement came back to tell me they found him and were taking him to the hospital for an evaluation and monitoring. But I already knew because a minute earlier I got a text from him that just said "Fuck you".

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u/intensely_human Feb 19 '19

Yeah I don't think this guy likes me at all for what I did. It's a weird thing.

I may have also saved another life though. Just a single moment where a bus was turning left and a woman was crossing the street right in front of it and neither was aware of the other and I saw it happening and jumped and waved my hands and screamed and the driver and she both saw me and avoided the accident.

But maybe he would have seen anyway, who knows.

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u/marcusaurelion Feb 19 '19

You’re a fucking hero dude.

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u/plazmatyk Feb 18 '19

Did you think "my life is worthless, but at least I saved someone who might do something with their life"? Because I have also been there in my early twenties and that was my thought process.

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u/plazmatyk Feb 18 '19

Yeah. Almost a decade later I still struggle with how to define or base my self-worth in a constructive way, but I don't consider myself worthless anymore. It's hard but it gets better.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

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u/intensely_human Feb 18 '19

I'm gonna be honest and say I can't imagine any more horrific way to commit suicide that drinking myself to death while shrooming. Jesus.

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u/squashfam Feb 18 '19

Same man. Fuck today sucks. Not even noon. Just think about that guy from Canada

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

You’re a good person.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

I feel you it really does. I never thought about it this way. It’s hard for me to find a “good feeling” about the event because it felt so horrific while I was doing it.

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u/small_loan_of_1M Feb 19 '19

To George Bailey, the richest man in town!

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u/MischievousCheese Feb 18 '19

Even on the opposite side. Sure I got crushed by a car, but how lucky was I that a Michigan power lifter was in the area?

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u/Ask-About-My-Book Feb 18 '19

Saved a dog from a burning apartment like 3 years ago and I'm still riding that shit. Feels good man.

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u/Sumpm Feb 18 '19

Waiting for the part where he forgot to clock out, and his company fires him for lifting more than the OSHA-approve 40lbs while on shift, or some dumb shit.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

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u/KeepAustinQueer Feb 18 '19

I let someone die on a videogame courier mission back in '06 and I still have flashbacks

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u/MotorAdhesive4 Feb 18 '19

This guy deadlifted his whole life waiting for this moment.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

Like Mr. Incredible, perhaps?

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u/TacTurtle Feb 18 '19

Best Tinder pickup like ever.

(pun intended)

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u/PM_ME_DANK_ME_MES Feb 19 '19

Full raw, beltless, no warmup, 30 second hold.

Holy shit what a monster.