Man Saves a child fell from Third Floor Window. Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
New Source (nydailynews)
Published : Monday July 16, 2012
A 7-YEAR-OLD GIRL who fell from a third-story window in Brooklyn Monday escaped injury when she was caught by a hero neighbor.
“I just prayed that I’d catch her,” said the girl’s savior, Steve St. Bernard, 52, an MTA bus driver. “I was right underneath her.”
The girl crawled out through an empty space next to the air conditioner in the window of her family’s apartment in the Coney Island Houses about 2:10 p.m., cops and witnesses said.
She created the opening by pulling aside the accordion-style plastic partition attached to the side of the air conditioner, witnesses said.
After crawling out, she clowned around, singing and dancing on top of the air conditioner as a crowd of kids looked on from below before losing her balance and falling, witnesses said.
St. Bernard, who lives in the housing complex, was alerted by the cries of onlookers.
“I went over there to make sure if she fell I could catch her,” St. Bernard said. “I’m not a hero — anybody would have done it. I did it out of normal instincts.”
One of his own four children is the same age as the child who fell, he said.
He said he was just worried he might not manage to catch the child. “I thought to myself, let me get over there and catch her. I just hope I don’t drop her.”
The catch knocked St. Bernard, a father of four, to the ground.
“She fell and she put her hands out,” said witness Jesse Padilla, 9. “Her head hit a bush, but Steve caught the rest of her body.”
The lucky girl was uninjured but taken to Coney Island Hospital as a precaution, police said.
Her mother would not talk to reporters Monday night or give her name.
St. Bernard was treated and released from the same hospital for a torn tendon in his left bicep from making the lucky save.
The family was not required to have a window guard installed if there was an air-conditioning unit in the window, a NYCHA spokesman said.
Air conditioners are required to have permanent, structurally sound barriers that leave no opening greater than 41/2 inches in homes with children under 10 in New York City.
NYCHA is investigating the situation, the spokesman said. - nydailynews
A guy smashed window and poured concrete into a double parked car. Russia.
The unfortunate owner of this ruined car will think twice before blocking in another driver in future.
Not content with taking a baseball bat to the window, releasing the handbrake and rolling the car out of his way, the obstructed driver then summoned a cement truck to fill the offending vehicle with wet concrete.
Stunned onlookers can be heard laughing in disbelief on video footage of the scene in Russia, which shows the interior of the car being flooded with concrete while the man looks on in satisfaction.
Upon finding the blue car blocking his expensive white vehicle, the man uses a baseball bat to smash its window, reach in and release the handbrake.
After rolling the car out of his way, the man can be seen making a call on his mobile phone, after which a cement truck comes rumbling around the corner.
The truck pulls up alongside the blue car and begins pumping concrete through the window, until its interior resembles a murky brown swimming pool.
Finally satisfied, the blocked in driver can then be seen driving off in his white car without a backwards glance.
- Mail Online
Charity golfer gets his head stuck in bin after getting drunk during 24-hour tournament. Wolstanton Golf Club, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England.
News Source (Daily Mail)
Published: Thursday June 25, 2015
As hole in ones go, this wasn't quite what a charity golfer had in mind as he looked to finish off his round in style.
Having had one too many drinks during a 24-hour alcohol-fuelled tournament Dave Sayers found himself in the hilarious predicament of having his head wedged firmly inside a rubbish bin.
The 49-year-old decided to bin his clubs after a disappointing final round at the end of the event at Wolstanton Golf Club in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire.But as the clubs wouldn't fit, Mr Sayers went a step further and stuck his head in the bin.
His drunken stunt backfired when he realised he couldn't free himself and was stuck face-down staring at a pile of beer cans – and wasps.
Rather than help, his friends stood laughing as Mr Sayers spent 10 minutes struggling in vain to wrestle his head free.
They eventually took sympathy on the father-of-two and he was rescued to cheers from the crowd after having his head greased in Vaseline.
Mr Sayers, from Newcastle-under-Lyme, told MailOnline: 'I'd had about 12 or 13 cans over about eight hours and was in a bit of a silly mood.
'Throughout the day I'd been throwing my clubs round, because that's what I often end up doing, and a couple of them were bent so at the end I said "right, these are going in the bin".
'But when they wouldn't fit everybody started laughing so I thought, right, I'm going to stick my head in there instead, that'll get a laugh.
'So I shoved my head in the bin. It wouldn't go in at first and then as I gave it a big push and forced it I knew straight away I was in trouble.
I tried to pull it out again but my ears got stuck.
'Well then everybody was in hysterics. I've got my wife and kids there - and my mother - and they're all laughing their heads off at my stupid predicament.'
He added: 'I was stuck like that for about 10 minutes until someone who had been carrying Vaseline to avoid sores during the golf day helped get my head out.
'He rubbed it on my temples and behind my ears and I was able to get one ear out then the rest of my head.
'It did hurt a bit, but I was OK. I had some bruises on my neck but the wasps left me alone, luckily.'
Mr Sayers, who is married to Alison, 45, and has two children Daniel, 17, and Jake, 14, said he had been getting stick for the prank ever since.
He said: 'People have been calling me the "Bin Man" and saying that I'm talking rubbish. Stuff like that. 'People have really took the micky. My wife and kids were pretty embarrassed by it all but all my mates loved it.
'I don't regret doing it as it made people smile. It stank but I'm just glad I didn't get stung.'
During the video one onlooker can be heard saying: 'We've had a hole in one. He was after that Strongbow.'
One friend then says: 'Dave, we've got some Vaseline, just stay in that position.'
The self-employed businessman, who runs an upholstery firm, was taking part in an event to raise £9,000 for Cure Leukaemia and Alzheimer's charity Approach Staffordshire.
It was organised by club captain Dave Grange, whose wife Lorraine was diagnosed with leukaemia more than 10 years ago.
Lorraine, 62, of Kidsgrove Staffordshire, was referred to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham for a successful bone marrow transplant in 2005.
Her cancer returned 12 months later but the day-care co-ordinator for Approach is now in remission.
The 24-hour session, which ran from 6pm on June 4 until 6pm the following day was attended by around 200 spectators. - Daily Mail
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