September 13, 2011 7:45 AM
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Amazing video: Bystanders lift car to save biker
(CBS News) A fiery rescue in Utah was caught on tape Monday.
A car hit a motorcycle in Logan. The bike slid under the car, trapping the rider under the car as flames burst out.
Grad student Chris Garff, who shoots video of lectures and school events for Utah State University, happened to be there when it happened, and began getting the scene on video.
Half a dozen people tried the lift the blazing BMW.
"We were cheering them on, like 'Get that car up! Get that guy outta there!" Garff says.
No luck.
Then, a flood of people swarmed the car and crane it managed to lift it into the air.
A construction worker dragged the limp body from under the 4,000 pounds of steel.
"It felt like he was motionless for a very, very long. It felt like forever," Garff says. "I thought he was a goner."
But then, as one witness described it, "He's moving! No freakin' way!"
The man, 21, was rushed to a hospital where, police say, he's in stable condition with broken bones and minor burns.
"Absolutely," says Garff, the Good Samaritans "are heroes."
A car hit a motorcycle in Logan. The bike slid under the car, trapping the rider under the car as flames burst out.
Grad student Chris Garff, who shoots video of lectures and school events for Utah State University, happened to be there when it happened, and began getting the scene on video.
Half a dozen people tried the lift the blazing BMW.
"We were cheering them on, like 'Get that car up! Get that guy outta there!" Garff says.
No luck.
Then, a flood of people swarmed the car and crane it managed to lift it into the air.
A construction worker dragged the limp body from under the 4,000 pounds of steel.
"It felt like he was motionless for a very, very long. It felt like forever," Garff says. "I thought he was a goner."
But then, as one witness described it, "He's moving! No freakin' way!"
The man, 21, was rushed to a hospital where, police say, he's in stable condition with broken bones and minor burns.
"Absolutely," says Garff, the Good Samaritans "are heroes."
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Citizens raced to action to save a person hurt in an accident, risking their own safety to do so. Yet not a one to One's knowledge "Caped Up", took pictures of themselves offering aid, and posted about their own actions being superior to the public on the Internet. No Facebook Updates. No Twitter Tweets. No Glamorous Photoshoot. No one asked for money so they could continue to offer aid to people in need, or came out with a coloring book to promote their deviant lifestyle (in a cape).
Citizens are heroes because they see and do what is right, instinctively, not for their own egos, but for the good of citizens in need. As has always been done, and will be done long after superheroes are an unpleasant, and wishfully forgotten memory.
-Lord Malignance
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