Super Hero Moment?

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Have you ever had a super hero moment? One where you accomplished something seemingly impossible and maybe there were a few people around to witness it that made you feel even more like a badass?


I realize that there are fathers, fire fighters, veterans, active duty military and more that are heroes day in and day out. This is more of moment where you could have worn a cape afterward had one been available.


At the Morris BBQ a few years back I was talking with friends, when I looked up and noticed that our golf cart was drifting back toward the creek. My natural reaction was to start running after it as it headed toward our fence and creek.


In 3 inch heeled boots I hauled ass until I was finally at the driver’s seat. I jumped onto the cart while it was still moving and slammed down the break. While I am sure the cart was not moving that fast it felt like it was hurdling out of control to me. Out of breath and a little perplexed about what had just transpired I climbed off the golf cart. I looked back and several folks on the other side of the creek were pumping their fists in the air.


Yep. I’ll take my Wonder Woman lasso, now, thanks.
 
Somehow found myself at a baby shower years ago. One of the “games” they played was to see who could change a diaper the fastest. They had these little baby dolls and infant diapers. I was cajoled into playing along. Left all the other ladies in the dust.


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My sisters kid had just learned to walk. She was running back-and-forth to each end of the sectional. I was at one and my sister was at the other end. She tripped and went head over heals headed for the corner of the coffee table. I just reached out lightning fast with out thinking and caught her ankle before she hit. I was holding her in the air by one ankle and everyone was like “ Whoaaaaaaa how’d you do that!?” To this day I have no clue how I did it.
 
I felt like a bad-ass/super-hero exactly once.
I was getting ready to do my first Taxol treatment, and the lady across the room just had hers, and actually died.....they revived her, but she died from the very thing that was getting ready to be put into my port.....if I hadn't been so stoned on Benadryl I'd have run screaming out of the room....LOL. So I stayed and lived to tell.....super-hero? Maybe. lol.
 
My sisters kid had just learned to walk. She was running back-and-forth to each end of the sectional. I was at one and my sister was at the other end. She tripped and went head over heals headed for the corner of the coffee table. I just reached out lightning fast with out thinking and caught her ankle before she hit. I was holding her in the air by one ankle and everyone was like “ Whoaaaaaaa how’d you do that!?” To this day I have no clue how I did it.
Nice!
 
Not me, but my wife....

Kids were around 8 or 9 and we were having Thanksgiving with her side of the family. My son gets choked...I'm talking one cough and then no air movement at all. Everybody across the table from him (all adults) start screaming like the damned house is on fire.

My wife doesn't say anything...stops eating and gets up out of her chair, gets behind my son and gives him one abdominal thrust that dislodges the food. She looks to see if he is breathing / is ok, sits back down and starts eating again. She was a cool customer from start to finish.

Probably one of the most badass things I have ever witnessed.
 
Not me, but my wife....

Kids were around 8 or 9 and we were having Thanksgiving with her side of the family. My son gets choked...I'm talking one cough and then no air movement at all. Everybody across the table from him (all adults) start screaming like the damned house is on fire.

My wife doesn't say anything...stops eating and gets up out of her chair, gets behind my son and gives him one abdominal thrust that dislodges the food. She looks to see if he is breathing / is ok, sits back down and starts eating again. She was a cool customer from start to finish.

Probably one of the most badass things I have ever witnessed.

Yaaaasss! Badass, indeed!
 
I pulled a drunk driver out of a burning monte carlo. It was around midnight. One dude got there before me and was pulling on the door. You can imagine trying to pull open the door on a crumpled late 70s monte carlo. I can still hear the guy yelling, "Hang on, buddy!"

The driver was unconscious, so he was dead weight. Blood covered his face and flames were crawling up the windshield. I managed to drag him behind a tree and we sat with him until EMS and FD got there. When they finally did, the fire was already inside the car. The guy would have been toast.

The town gave me their Award of Valor at the annual Fire Department Christmas banquet.

I tried to talk to the guy several times since then, but he would not take my calls. His mom was more than happy to update me on his condition, although over the next several months, it had gotten worse from his injuries.

The guy lived in Laurinburg and this was in '88. I say that because maybe, just maybe someone on here knows him. If there is a chance you might, feel free to PM me and I'll give you his name. I still get curious how he's getting along. If I had to guess, he's probably in his mid 50s now.

And you can still see the scar on the pine tree he hit.
 
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I once chased down a guy I had warrants on for probation violations in 105 degree heat with no weapon or handcuffs. Ran him right out of his timberlands. I chased him for about 1/2 mile had a Cop join in and watched the guy scale a 10ft fence only to find an actual reason for the 10 ft fence was a 20-30ft drop off. Luckily we had people come to the bottom of the drop and retrieve him. I often ask why the hell I did that with no weapon or cuffs and all I come up with is pure stupidity. So my cape would be a dunce cap.
 
I pulled a kid out of a 'sweeper' in the middle of a river that was running high and fast.

Kid's idiot father put him all alone in a sit on top kayak on a family float trip; neither the kid nor the dad knew what they were doing. I see the kid drifting backwards looking back up stream to where his parents were arguing with his bigger sister. He drifted right into a tree that had come down and was off the boat, tangled in the branches with the water pushing him deeper. I hauled ass and pulled him out. Tore a rotator cuff for my trouble. Then I proceeded to call the dad every colorful adjective I could muster in front of his ~6 and 10 year olds.
 
I pulled a drunk driver out of a burning monte carlo. It was around midnight. One dude got there before me and was pulling on the door. You can imagine trying to pull open the door on a crumpled late 70s monte carlo. I can still hear the guy yelling, "Hang on, buddy!"

The driver was unconscious, so he was dead weight. Blood covered his face and flames were crawling up the windshield. I managed to drag him behind a tree and we sat with him until EMS and FD got there. When they finally did, the fire was already inside the car. The guy would have been toast.


I pulled a kid out of a 'sweeper' in the middle of a river that was running high and fast.

He drifted right into a tree that had come down and was off the boat, tangled in the branches with the water pushing him deeper. I hauled ass and pulled him out. Tore a rotator cuff for my trouble. Then I proceeded to call the dad every colorful adjective I could muster in front of his ~6 and 10 year olds.

"Hero" gets tossed around a lot these days....

Yall earned every damned bit of it and then some.

Well done!
 
Standing in a dirt parking area behind the trucks, having a few beers with some guys we just met and my buddy after doing some dove, chucker and pheasant hunting.
Another couple guys kicked up a chucker put in the field, it was up and flying right toward us.... I'm thinking any second it's going to peel off . Nope, Coming right at my head, full speed.
I lean back and snatch it out of the sky one handed. I look down and its all buggeyed and breathing heavy.

" whoa, crap.!! He caught it one handed !!! .... He didn't even spill his beer !! "

My buddy pipes up " you should see what he does when we go fishing! "
 
Not me, but my wife....

Kids were around 8 or 9 and we were having Thanksgiving with her side of the family. My son gets choked...I'm talking one cough and then no air movement at all. Everybody across the table from him (all adults) start screaming like the damned house is on fire.

My wife doesn't say anything...stops eating and gets up out of her chair, gets behind my son and gives him one abdominal thrust that dislodges the food. She looks to see if he is breathing / is ok, sits back down and starts eating again. She was a cool customer from start to finish.

Probably one of the most badass things I have ever witnessed.
My brother did that to our mother decades ago when she was choking on a chunk of turkey....he broke a rib, but saved her life.....
I, on the other hand, ran to call 911....she would never have made it. I guess some people are cool customers in an emergency, and I hope I do better next time...lol.
 
"Hero" gets tossed around a lot these days....

Yall earned every damned bit of it and then some.

Well done!

nah. just a pissed off dad.

There's more to that story concerning the other dad and his 'efforts' to help. At one point I grabbed the bow handle on his boat and chucked him downstream out of my way before he killed all of us.
 
My brother did that to our mother decades ago when she was choking on a chunk of turkey....he broke a rib, but saved her life.....
I, on the other hand, ran to call 911....she would never have made it. I guess some people are cool customers in an emergency, and I hope I do better next time...lol.

Hey...

You did the right thing. If he hadn't of got it dislodged, those medics on the way probably could have got it with forceps.

You done good.
 
Most recently was a few years ago. We were trick or treating with our son and a buddy and his wife and daughter who was just walking good.

She made a break away and ran out into the street just as some asshat was speeding through the neighborhood. I bolted and snatched her up and out of the way. Of course this led to my buddies wife getting really mad at her husband because he didn’t spot it. :rolleyes: They’re divorced now.

And of course @wsfiredude has seen me fly but that was more out of fear.
 
Most recently was a few years ago. We were trick or treating with our son and a buddy and his wife and daughter who was just walking good.

She made a break away and ran out into the street just as some asshat was speeding through the neighborhood. I bolted and snatched her up and out of the way. Of course this led to my buddies wife getting really mad at her husband because he didn’t spot it. :rolleyes: They’re divorced now.

And of course @wsfiredude has seen me fly but that was more out of fear.

That was some ninja shit that I will remember until the day I die.
 
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On the first trip in my new job as Mate on the Tug Whitefoot, the skipper and client left me aboard while they went ashore. A girl jumped off a nearby bridge, trying to kill herself. I took two fishermen aboard to help me, cranked up the engines and backed out into the river to rescue her. Brought her back to the dock, where an ambulance was waiting. Tied up again and shut down the engines. When the skipper returned, he said, "Boy, don't you know there's plenty of women out there, you don't have to fish 'em out of the river!"
 
I live a pretty boring life. But there was this one time....

One year we had a towing contest with an obstacle course at Trucks Unlimited in WS. Had to back, hook, and tow a dual axle trailer with a side by side strapped down through an obstacle course both forward and in reverse (up a hill) for time. Got talked into entering and driving the ole ladies stock Ranger Edge (the laughing stock among 9 or 10 tuned and/or highly modified 7.3/6.0/6.4 Superdutys.)

I pissed of ALOT of people with that little truck. Laughter ensued when I pulled up to the line to start. Jaws dropped and there was even more laughter when I beat the fastest truck by 30 seconds. Scott still had the score board in the shop when I stopped by a few months ago lol.

It ain't much but I got the money and the girl. Felt like I had just won the Talladega 500 in a Pinto.
 
Okay, I'll play fairly.

When I was teaching elementary school I had a few. Nothing truly spectacular, but caught a few (or at least slowed their fall) off the monkey bars. Got to spend the rest of the day with sand covering my front side.

One that stands out was a little fella tripping and falling towards a sharp counter. I stuck my hand out reflexively and somehow managed to cover his mouth while squeezing his cheeks (like when you cover someone's mouth to keep them from screaming), but got him stopped about 3 inches away from the counter corner pointed right at his eye. It was pretty funny to watch, since apparently a few students thought I just reached out and grabbed him by the face.

Not as dramatic, but one time my buddy and I were running a South Mtn trail. When we got back to the car, he had apparently left his keys on top of the car, which he realized about half way back to the main road. When I stopped, of course they were gone. So I drove all the way back to the parking spot, got out, took the car key off the ring and tied a good 50ft of paracord to the keys, dropped them on the top of the car where we left them and held the other end of the cord while I proceeded to drive back out. Sure enough, we heard the car keys slide off, and not 5 feet from there, we found his keys.
 
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Okay, I'll play fairly.

When I was teaching elementary school I had a few. Nothing truly spectacular, but caught a few (or at least slowed their fall) off the monkey bars. Got to spend the rest of the day with sand covering my front side.

One that stands out was a little fella tripping and falling towards a sharp counter. I stuck my hound out reflexively and somehow managed to cover his mouth while squeezing his cheeks (like when you cover someone's mouth to keep them from screaming), but got him stopped about 3 inches away from the counter corner pointed right at his eye. It was pretty funny to watch, since apparently a few students thought I just reached out and grabbed him by the face.

Not as dramatic, but one time my buddy and I were running a South Mtn trail. When we got back to the car, he had apparently left his keys on top of the car, which he realized about half way back to the main road. When I stopped, of course they were gone. So I drove all the way back to the parking spot, got out, took the car key off the ring and tied a good 50ft of paracord to the keys, dropped them on the top of the car where we left them and held the other end of the cord while I proceeded to drive back out. Sure enough, we heard the car keys slide off, and not 5 feet from there, we found his keys.

Wait, so you slapped your hound into a kids face and you didn’t get suspended or arrested?

That’s epic super hero.
 
Got to the shop one day after a road call just in time to see the parts guy loading some stuff on a trailer with our old worn out fork lift. He set the pallet down and backed up and climbed of the fork lift to help tie the load down. That fork lift had a bad habit of jumping in gear. It rolled forward and the fork (still in the raised position) caught the parts man between the shoulder blades pinning him against the trailer. The truck driver was freaking out cause he didn't know how to operate the forklift. He was afraid he would send it in the wrong direction. I ran the 100 or so feet and slammed the forklift in reverse and got it off of him before it was seriously injured. Hero? Nah!
 
16 years old (or just about to be 16, cant say for sure, it was pretty close though)

I had been dating this girl for a few months, we'd touched privates with mouths and hands, but no sex.
We were getting closer and closer and then...well, it was time.

So there we were, watching The Wonder Years when things got hot and heavy. And slowly clothes started coming off. And I donned a connie.
Here it is, we're about to lose our virginities to each other!

And her mother walked in.

Ive not been to hell, but I think Ive seen the devil. It was in her eyes.

So I slip on shorts and shoes and looking for my shirt as she starts coming towards me.
I jumped clear across the bed to the other side, queen size, with no run or anything. I just jumped and cleared it.
Then, as soon as I landed I was running faster than I ever had before...probably faster than Usain (?) Bolt. Probably.



Her mom had me other a couple days later so we could discuss what happened and making sure we were safe etc, though she wasnt thrilled her little girl was goign to be deflowered.

But, yeah, I had a pretty cool jump.
 
Wait, so you slapped your hound into a kids face and you didn’t get suspended or arrested?

That’s epic super hero.

Meh, just makes me a politician.


I was talking to my wife when I typed it. You pointing out the error made me realize why my wife was confused when I thought I told her to "control your hound."
 
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