THIS is a MAN!
Posted on 03/23/2011 7:49:56 PM PDT by ventanax5
On the afternoon of Friday, March 11th, Hideaki Akaiwa was at his job, dully trudging out the final bitter minutes of his work week in his office just outside the port city of Ishinomaki in Japan's Miyagi Prefecture. What this guy's day job actually is, I honestly have no idea, but based on the extremely limited information I have on the guy I can only presume that his daily nine-to-five routine probably falls somewhere between the motorcycle chase scenes from the movie Akira and John Rambo's antics in the book version of First Blood on the ridiculousness/badassitude scale. But that's only speculation.
The one thing we know for certain is that Akaiwa was at work on the 11th, when suddenly, right as he was in the middle of jumping over a giant Gatling-gun-armed robot while riding on a rocket-powered jetbike he'd MacGuyvered together out of vines, tree branches, and a couple thumbtacks, something terrible happened – an earthquake. And not just any earthquake – a mega fucking brain-busting insane earthquake the likes of which the island of Japan had never had the misfortune of experiencing before. The ground shook, buildings crumbled, lights smashed apart, and the entire population of the country froze in fear as fault line below Japan rumbled for a ridiculous two-plus minutes.
But, amazingly, an 8.9 magnitude earthquake wasn't the worst thing to happen to the town Ishinomaki on that horrible day. No, that was afterwards, when the tremors from the earthquake churned up a raging tsunami that took a bustling city of 162,000 people and suddenly turned it into little more than a ten-foot-deep lake.
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LOL love the dramatization of the rescue.
Definitely a badass hero.
Great story.
He has definitely earned the title.
hey
Badass hero is probably an accountant or insurance adjuster.
Sometimes it takes a crisis for our real selves to come out.
Definitely my kind of a guy. I bet there is a lot more of this that happened that hasn’t gotten any publicity.
THIS is a MAN!
Wonder if he ever competed in Ninja Warrior game show. Been watching it for years now on G4 network.
Heckuva guy; wherever he goes, there’s the sound of brass - clang, clang, clang!
Hero bump!!!!!
Looks like Japan just found their version of Chuck Norris...
:-)
WOW !
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