A young man falls onto the subway track as a train is approaching. A bystander jumps onto the tracks and tries to rescue him, but to no avail. Then, for some unfathomable reason, as the train is seconds away, he lies on top of the fallen man & the train whizzes over their heads. Both men are safe. Incredulous? Yes. True? Unbelievably so.
This is the story of a 50-year-old father of two & one of the heroes that Jad Aburmad and Robert Krulwich, the hosts of RadioLabs, talk about in an intriguing podcast called, "The Good Show". There are two other stories they share - a woman jumping through an electric fence to save someone from a 950-pound bull attack & a man rescuing drunk teenagers from a car crash that led to a raging fire. In each case, it was a normal, untrained person, getting into a dangerous, almost fatal situation, to save another person's life. Why?
Here's where it gets interesting. When asked why they voluntarily endangered their own lives, here's what they had to say
"I just kept saying this is somebody's kids, know what I mean"..."I couldn't stand there and not do anything. I was compelled to act." Emotional.
"Here is the problem. Here is what I needed to do. And... something needed to happen." Logical.
"I felt like I was chosen for that." Karmic.
Each reacted from a different perspective, for different reasons. But all of them had one thing in common - the nerve to do it.
Link to the RadioLabs podcast http://www.radiolab.org/2010/dec/14/
This is the story of a 50-year-old father of two & one of the heroes that Jad Aburmad and Robert Krulwich, the hosts of RadioLabs, talk about in an intriguing podcast called, "The Good Show". There are two other stories they share - a woman jumping through an electric fence to save someone from a 950-pound bull attack & a man rescuing drunk teenagers from a car crash that led to a raging fire. In each case, it was a normal, untrained person, getting into a dangerous, almost fatal situation, to save another person's life. Why?
Here's where it gets interesting. When asked why they voluntarily endangered their own lives, here's what they had to say
"I just kept saying this is somebody's kids, know what I mean"..."I couldn't stand there and not do anything. I was compelled to act." Emotional.
"Here is the problem. Here is what I needed to do. And... something needed to happen." Logical.
"I felt like I was chosen for that." Karmic.
Each reacted from a different perspective, for different reasons. But all of them had one thing in common - the nerve to do it.
Link to the RadioLabs podcast http://www.radiolab.org/2010/dec/14/
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