The other day, I saw smoke from a car that had just hit a lamp pole and I stopped. The driver was in shock and didn't know what he was doing anymore. I told him to get away from the car but he insisted on taking all his stuff out, so I helped him. Minutes later the car exploded, just like in the movies, flames were almost 2 storeys high. Pretty impressive! However, it is now a couple of days later and he never even called to thank me...or maybe he is still in shock...???
2007-09-22 22:31:14 · 19 answers · asked by Selena 6 in Travel ➔ Europe (Continental) ➔ Turkey
#Hanibal: soooo brave!!!
#Ipek* Shocks can be severe, u r right! Great thing u did there! As a surfer, I constantly rescue people from drowning!
#Tanju: cute story
#Earthling: sooo much heart
#Ithinkiatetoomuch: the police have all my details
#Leonarda: U truly have a problem in Greece with all those stray dogs and cats...how come?
2007-09-22 23:52:14 · update #1
Thanks to everyone for all these great things you did! That day I saw many people just driving past and I started having my doubts about humanity but you all gave me enough evidence to believe in the good side of humanity. Keep up the good work!!!
2007-09-24 14:18:11 · update #2
Yes, I saved a girl from being raped, at 1 am in the night, in the last train ( suburbian trains of Paris, on short distances).
There were only 4 persons in this wagon : this young and pretty Black girl, a Black drunk guy, an elderly Frenchman, and myself ( a young Turk ).
The Black guy was talking to the girl, and obviously she wasn't interested in knowing him. He was insisting, like a crazy dog, saying her very vulgar things, and the girl was seriously scared. Even though the guy was trying not to talk high, I clearly felt that there was a problem.
I was sitting in the other side of the wagon,and I was about to stand up, come and ask " Have you some trouble, Miss ? May I help you ?"...
Suddenly the guy showed a knife , and ordened her to take off her clothes !!!
I immediately said him to stop it, but he didn't listen, and began to tear the jeans of the girl !
I gave him a foot kick in his balls and in his head, and we fight during about 40 seconds. It was difficult because he was stronger than me, but it was also easier because he was drunk ( or under drugs). I managed to block his arm with a armkey-hold, and put him on the floor. I said him " Don't move, otherwise I break your arm!!!" (I had some ju-jitsu and krav-maga knowledge)
As the Old Frenchman had called police with his cell phone, the police was waitings for us at the Villiers-le-Bel train station, and they arrested the guy.
Later, the guy was judged and jailed.
2007-09-23 01:08:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 12⤊ 0⤋
I have been a paramedic for 25 years. I am now in another field, but I still do disaster relief for international relief agencies. I have been in many situations like yours. But my stories are not important.
I just want to take this time to say that "there is nothing like being in a situation where one can help another human being or living thing"
People react in many different ways after being rescued from severe injury or death.
Some feel a great emotional debt that they know they can never repay. So they would rather not say anything at all than say something wrong.
Then their are those that regret being rescued.
Or maybe his injuries prevent him from contacting you.
The important thing is that you know you have made a difference.
You got very lucky there are many things that could have gone wrong at any time.
That is why I worry about Turkey's earthquake preparedness, Turkey has some of they greatest seismic sensors in the world. But it is not important to know how strong the earthquake is. It is more important to have the infrastructure and building codes to withstand one.
I have many people I care about in Turkey, so I always worry about you guys.
BTW, Dodecanese Islands, Greece just had a 5.3 today and a 4.7 yesterday.
2007-09-23 17:35:40 · answer #2 · answered by Mr. Bobo 3 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Wow Selena, that is a brave thing you did. Never-mind the thank you, he is probably still in shock- I've been in a bad car accident before, I know the shock can go for weeks- but I think him and his family will be thankful to you in their hearts for the rest of their lives.
We actually have a member here, Mr. Bobo, whose profession is saving lives and after he wakes up- living in the USA- he will probably tell us a few stories from his experiences.
As per me, I saved one baby girl from downing. She was playing on the beach just by the water and a sudden wave from a distant boat rolled her into the sea.. It is so weird that in that crowded beach nobody noticed it but me.- that is why I believe that all of us have a purpose in life maybe mine was saving that babies life :) -
It only took me 10 seconds to get there and pick her up- she was in the water head down, a two year old toddler- but she already inhaled water. Luckily, the father heard my screams and he gave first aid.
I saved quite a few animals lives actually one is a registered patient :D. One of my dogs keep getting severe allergy attacks and have to have allergy shots immediately right after she starts " ballooning up" :) or she gets into anaoflactic shock. So I had to learn to determine the earliest symptoms and giving a shot in the muscle and thought it to everybody who is around her when I am not.
2007-09-23 06:09:33 · answer #3 · answered by Ipek K 7 · 8⤊ 0⤋
I helped 2 birds with broken wings before... I fed stray cats and dogs. I have cats that I have rescued (they were left behind when a family moved). I helped old ladies crossing streets, I fed homeless, I helped lost people find directions. I helped abused moms finding community shelters. I helped two old men in different times by the sidewalk, to get up and run their scooters, they have fallen off of them. Not one person was stopping on the road for them. I donate clothes and books regularly, when doing spring cleaning to nearby schools. In Turkey, we used to leave bins of clothing by the nearby mosque by labeling it clean fresh and free... In the US, we take them to donation centers. I helped friends move, give birth, recover from loss of a dear one, remodel, babysit, etc... We drove an old lady that was dehydrated that missed her bus back to her house. We helped a guy who cannot swim, go back to the shore, he didn't know that it was deep where he was, he could have died. We offered phones to people with broken cars late at night by the highway. I mean, little or big, courtesy is the warmest wish you can send someone.
2007-09-24 17:03:49 · answer #4 · answered by usourselvesandourcats 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes,I have,but I am not sure if I would do it again.
Several years ago,I found a baby bird that fell from the nest on the roof of an unused old house in the village..I took it and climbed up on the roof to put it back into its nest....ı was foolish enough not to have reckoned that there was a nest nearly under each tile.As soon as I stepped on the roof loads of chicks scattered in different directions and at least fifty or more of them fell to the ground.As you can easily guess,all the cats aroun were very very pleased with that.
2007-09-23 12:19:05 · answer #5 · answered by edd 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I rescued a kitten last year. Found it in the forest almost dead, poor litle thing. I took it home and took it to the vet the next day. Thank God, it recovered and started to jump around a few days later. Then, I gave it to my friend who wanted the company of a cat.
2007-09-23 06:17:15 · answer #6 · answered by Earthling 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Maybe he doesn't have your contact details. ? ?
I pulled an old lady out from the street when she was going to be hit by a passing car, she wasn't too impressed with me either, nor was she angry at the maniac who had almost run her over. I guess that is why she needed help.
Thanks for not letting him get burnt up!!!
Exciting story,,, OUR HERO!
2007-09-23 06:24:05 · answer #7 · answered by ithinkiatetoomuch 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
1- my daughter when she was about 1 year old. a wave turned her upside down at the beach. I ran and picked her up from her feet. She vomited all the water.
2- a friend in the army. It was 20 July 1974. He was wounded, only 17 years old. He was afraid he was going to die. I and another soldier carried him to the hospital under machinegun fire.
2007-09-23 11:34:05 · answer #8 · answered by anlarm 5 · 8⤊ 0⤋
I may have rescued my sister from poisoning. She was very young and drank detergent by mistake. I used the salt-sugar mixed in water formula we learned in school to make her vomit. I don't remember how much she had drunk and don't know what would happen if I hadn't intervened, but she thinks I saved her life.
2007-09-23 08:51:14 · answer #9 · answered by Totally Blunt 7 · 8⤊ 0⤋
Hi,
Well not me, my mother did ...
When I was a 7 years old, The weather was so cold and
snowy. It was dark, and there is no one in the street.
We were talking eachother ...
And then suddeny, we heard a cat voice, (Miyavvv, miyavv)
When we opened window, we saw her, she was pregnant and she needed help from us ...
My mother took her and gave some food, she was so hungry, she ate all of them, but she was still shouted and then my mother understood, birth time was coming ...
So, we went to another room ...
In the morning, we saw her and her babbies,
She was cleaning her babbies and my mother was still next them ...
That's our first cat and we called her 'Princess'...
Many years, she lived wih us...
Like that ...
This is true story ...
Cheers
****
To Manisali,
Thank You, Ibrahim,
Best Wishes
2007-09-23 06:14:55 · answer #10 · answered by Tanju 7 · 10⤊ 0⤋