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Just came across an article entitled "Brave man, sharp knife" in The Kentucky Post. Check it out!
Here are some excerpts:
Though the Transportation Security Agency may not like it, a fair number of us carry pocketknives. They aren't terribly threatening, but they are handy.
It's done out of habit. Out of tradition passed down from parent to child. Out of obedience to that old Boy Scout motto, "Be prepared."
Monday, the pocket-knife habit combined with Rick Newman's inspiring bravery to save the life of Danny Faehr, a Florence, Ky., trucker.
Faehr was driving a tractor-trailer northbound on I-75 when he was forced to stop along an elevated section of the Lockland split because of a traffic jam.
Witnesses told police that a dump truck loaded with iron ore pellets came up from behind and crashed into several cars and into Faehr's rig, which was loaded with auto parts destined for a Honda factory in central Ohio.
The impact pushed the tractor-trailer through a concrete guardwall and off the bridge. It landed on its side, more than 30 feet below, in the front yard of Newman's next-door neighbor.
Newman, who happened to be outside at the time, saw the bloodied driver struggling to get out. He climbed into the smoking wreckage, where he found Faehr hanging upside down from his seat belt. A bystander handed Newman his knife, and Newman used it to free Faehr from the mangled cab. Seconds later it exploded and was soon consumed by fire.
It sounds like a television drama in the telling, but this was reality.
We applaud Newman for his bravery and his quick thinking - and we applaud the habit of carrying a pocketknife. ...
Here are some excerpts:
Though the Transportation Security Agency may not like it, a fair number of us carry pocketknives. They aren't terribly threatening, but they are handy.
It's done out of habit. Out of tradition passed down from parent to child. Out of obedience to that old Boy Scout motto, "Be prepared."
Monday, the pocket-knife habit combined with Rick Newman's inspiring bravery to save the life of Danny Faehr, a Florence, Ky., trucker.
Faehr was driving a tractor-trailer northbound on I-75 when he was forced to stop along an elevated section of the Lockland split because of a traffic jam.
Witnesses told police that a dump truck loaded with iron ore pellets came up from behind and crashed into several cars and into Faehr's rig, which was loaded with auto parts destined for a Honda factory in central Ohio.
The impact pushed the tractor-trailer through a concrete guardwall and off the bridge. It landed on its side, more than 30 feet below, in the front yard of Newman's next-door neighbor.
Newman, who happened to be outside at the time, saw the bloodied driver struggling to get out. He climbed into the smoking wreckage, where he found Faehr hanging upside down from his seat belt. A bystander handed Newman his knife, and Newman used it to free Faehr from the mangled cab. Seconds later it exploded and was soon consumed by fire.
It sounds like a television drama in the telling, but this was reality.
We applaud Newman for his bravery and his quick thinking - and we applaud the habit of carrying a pocketknife. ...
(and maybe we can point this story out to those a**holes who ask "why do you NEED a knife?")