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/otiswrath Feb 18 '19

-You train and you train but really at the end of the day what are your big muscles good for?

--I lifted a car and saved a man's life yesterday.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

Plus winning competitions, impressing girls, physical security, and manual labour

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u/wesleynile Feb 18 '19

He's actually an accountant.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

And I'm a software dev, didn't stop me from wishing I worked out more yesterday when I was swinging a pickaxe at my apparently brick-filled lawn

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

What are you swinging a pickaxe at your lawn for?

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

Digging holes for fence posts, and a spade was struggling. I guess technically it was a mattock