This is Corion Evans. While he was driving in Mississippi, he saw a car swerve and crash...
While he was driving in Mississippi, he saw a car swerve and crash into a river. Without hesitating, he ran out, jumped into the water, and rescued three girls inside.
He's 16.
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
Hero!
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Seriously though, what a very brave teenager.
In the second tweet and at the very end they show the scene at the river and if you look, you can see that there is a gator in the water with just its eyes showing!
Not only all the things mentioned in the story but there's also gators in there!
That young man is a brave hero indeed!
Forgot about those. I have only lived in the south once, decades ago, so I forget the natural element of danger around there. Up here, I worry about grizzly bears and rabid coyotes.
Except they bit me in my bed while I was sleeping.
The danger was immense. That young man probably didn't have any idea of the danger he faced!
Amazing man!
Others stare and do nothing. There's a certain area of the brain responsible for this, I forget what it's called, but people who do heroic things don't even consider the danger they put themselves in. They simply act. Afterward they usually can't describe why they did it.
Congratulations to this fine young man and his heroic aptitude.
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Describe. I was first on the scene a couple of times where assistance was needed in a dire situation and the only way to describe it is that it's like a switch is tripped and you go into a sort of autopilot where there seems to be some something instructing and guiding the choices you make and actions you take during the execution of the task.
Only when the responsibilities are taken over by more skilled help and you are relieved from the scene does it "hit" you... the reality of what just happened.
I saved a man from drowning once and never gave a thought to my safety. I'm not that strong a swimmer, and a drowning person can take you down with them very easily. I didn't think about it, dove in, and instinctively got behind him and grabbed him loosely around the neck and shoulders and paddled one-handed to shore.
Only afterward did I stop to think about how foolish that was, and how I could have perished myself. The guy never even thanked me, like he was in total control all the time. 
The impetuousness of youth had a lot to do with it too, I think. I'd never try it again at my age. Or maybe I would. Who knows.
You never know you are capable until you're there and have done it.
Some of us are born for glory, some of us have it thrust upon us, right? 
Or maybe we're just a couple of normal people who were in the right place, at the right time, and were too shocked at the sight of someone in trouble to not help? Whatever. 
I sure don't go around looking for places to insert myself and call it helping! 
I almost always try to blend into the background. Being in the limelight isn't my style. Have a wonderful evening, 2naSalit.
and are nowhere as cool or well behaved as the Boomers were when they were kids, and they're also dumb as shit.
Gee, maybe they're wrong. 
Thank you Corion Evans!
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