The most fascinating story on the internet today

[malaise]

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/21/us/new-mom-good-samaritan-truck-fire-indiana-trnd/index.html
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To say that Holly McNally had a crazy week might be an understatement.

On Monday, the Indianapolis woman, 35, gave birth to her fourth child. She was released from the hospital, but the baby had to remain in a neonatal intensive care unit until his expected discharge Monday.

Then Thursday afternoon, McNally was on her way home from visiting the newborn when she and her mother spotted smoke billowing from a ramp off Interstate 70, east of the city. After taking a closer look, McNally could see it was an overturned tanker truck that had exploded.
"I get out to scan the area and I see a man coming out of the smoke and he was on fire," she recalled for CNN. "I said, 'Mom, I'm going in,' and she said, 'Don't go.' That's when I just took off."

What followed was a dramatic rescue with McNally teaming up with a fellow Good Samaritan to save the driver of the semi. She says she and her fellow rescuer covered the injured driver with a blanket to extinguish the flames on his body. As the three staggered away from the inferno, they felt a second explosion, which was captured on camera by passing drivers.

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There are good people everywhere - fuck Don the Con and his deplorables

[Stuart G]

1. Yes, there are "good people everywhere" thanks for posting...K and R

[Brother Buzz]

2. "Run to the rescue with love and peace will follow."

[malaise]

4. You really know your music

[Brother Buzz]

8. Not really, it's just something I heard on the Boob Tube the other day

Link to tweet

But fwiw, I did discover a cool version of 'The Big Rock Candy Mountain' that had some outstanding hobo yodeling. Most interesting.

[malaise]

9. I watched that great speech at the Oscars

but the next day one of the nephews told me about River's lyrics

[PJMcK]

3. Great story!

There are good people everywhere, as you wrote.

It's often so easy to spot the deplorable amongst us. I don't think I have to enumerate their behaviors and qualities for you to understand my point.

Holly McNally and her fellow Good Samaritan deserve medals of honor for saving the driver's life.

Thanks for sharing this story, malaise. Have a great weekend-- I've already started!

[malaise]

6. She and the other good Samaritan lifted my spirits

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. Has trumPutin claimed yet that he would have gone in faster?

Thanks for that post -- I needed a pick-me-up.

[spanone]

7. I saw that story. Amazing.

She was interviewed.... It took some amazing courage to run toward the truck.

❤️

[malaise]

10. I suspect her maternal instinct kicked in

She said she hoped someone would rescue her baby thirty years from now

[BlancheSplanchnik]

23. She's a hero! So is the other Good Samaritan.

If she’d been a man, I’m sure the first word would be Hero!
Weird how the article makes no mention about it or courage regarding this woman!!

[malaise]

28. Of course she's a hero

but they do say women are super protective when they have new borns

[BlancheSplanchnik]

30. That too. Amazing hero!

[Tweedy]

11. Awesome 👏 person, great rescue, thanks!

[BootinUp]

12. Wowser.

[NBachers]

13. Her son said she was a badass in Beast Mode. No higher compliment from a 15 year old boy.

[malaise]

16. It will be the most lasting moment their lives

That was badass

[Karadeniz]

14. At that moment, her soul overruled her brain. All heroes are manifesting soul. So proud!

[warmfeet]

15. These are the people I know.

The deplorables are a shrinking demographic. They can't go away soon enough for me.

[MyOwnPeace]

17. Imagine what she'd do

if someone tried to cage her child!

How can any one person stand this regime?

Bless her and the people like her - they show what America can be............

[Orrex]

18. That beats the hell out of how I spent my Thursday!

[calimary]

19. And here I thought you'd picked the one about Getting Married in Hell on the 29th!

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/4829881002

[malaise]

20. ROFL

[Delphinus]

21. I read this

in my local paper today - she mentioned she saw people filming, but not helping. That makes me very unhappy. What have we become as a society?

[malaise]

22. That's a global problem

Idiots with no humanity are everywhere

[Oldem]

24. We need more

stories like this one. It reminds me of Mr. Syngh, the cab driver who saved the old woman from a $25,000 scam. I'm convinced there are many such stories of good people doing extraordinary things. Trouble is, they don't appeal to the MSM since they don't sell as many ads as disasters such as the president produces daily. (I refuse to call him "my" president.)

[malaise]

29. That was lovely - so many senior citizens

are vulnerable - nice to know a complete stranger saved her from that criminal.

[Joinfortmill]

25. Wow, just wow

[UpInArms]

26. The world is a better place

Because she is here ...

A true shero

[Mme. Defarge]

27. There in lies our hope.

[Captain Zero]

31. Hoosier here and GUESS WHAT? That was JET FUEL

From that tanker truck. 4,000 gallons and it all burned without destroying and without collapsing that interstate overpass. I-465 overpass over I-70. That overpass is steel and concrete. Just sayin'. FYI.

The concrete was charred and singed pretty good. Blackened. But still standing. Traffic allowed under it. Not sure about over it.

[malaise]

32. Well done

[Joe Nation]

33. I think that most of us wouldn't hesitate to rescue a fellow human being

It doesn't make us heroes, it makes us human.