Posted on 07/07/2022 11:25:05 AM PDT by algore
A Mississippi teenager is being hailed as a hero after he jumped into an alligator-infested river to rescue three girls and a police officer from drowning.
Corion Evans, 16, was on the shore of the Pascagoula River early Sunday morning when he and his friends saw a car drive over a boat launch and sink into the water.
The three girls in the car had driven off Interstate-10 straight into the water after trying to follow the directions on their GPS at around 2.30am, according to WLOX.
As they reached about 20ft from shore, their car began to sink.
'They drove straight under the water,' Evans told the news station. 'Like only a little bit of the car was still above the water.'
At that point, Evans took off his shoes, shirt and phone and jumped into the river, along with his friends and brothers Karon 'KJ' and Caleb Bradley.
'I was like 'I can't let none of these folks die. They need to get out of the water,'' Evans recounted. 'So I just started getting them. I wasn't even thinking about nothing else.
He said he tried to carry the three girls above water and swim with them to shore.
But as Evans was making his rescue, he said he noticed Moss Point Police Officer Gray Mercer was also struggling in the water after he, too, dove into help the girls.
'I turned around, I see the police officer,' Evans said. 'He's drowning. He's going underwater, drowning saying 'Help.'
'So I went over there. I went and I grabbed the police officer and I'm like swimming him back until I feel I can walk
'It was a lot of swimming,' Evans explained. 'My legs were so tired after.'
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Now that’s a John Wayne moment hero indeed.
I have found if I can get coordinates, my Garmin never makes mistakes. But using text addresses for complex industrial areas is a crap shoot. Even happens in downtown areas.
I think these are address tagging errors in the stored maps.
My Garmin utterly failed me yesterday finding a new doctor's office. It had me going right past the complex time and again. I finally had to pull over in a hospital's driveway, fight about 20 different voicemails to get a live human, and then have them voice guide me to the office the entire way. Only way I could have found their office. And that's not the first time Garmin led me a merry chase, through tiny side roads, very bad neighborhoods, in circles, etc. Fortunately, not into a river--yet.
Good job by these young men. Rescuing people afraid of drowning can be riskier than sensational gators, because people in panic can pull a rescuer under.
I am glad the UK paper reported this because our papers are probably too busy writing up imaginary pieces.
Yes, of course they could have been going to work. I had forgotten that the shipyard is right there, too. They may have menial jobs in the shipyard.
Shrimp boats?
Yes, could be shrimp boats, oyster boats or fishing boats.
Blows my mind how people have been absorbed by GPS. Map reading has become a lost art in the past 25 years. Most convenience/gas stores don’t even have maps for sale.
Iv’e had a Rand McNally atlas for my state for the past 20 years. It is dog eared and has so many notes written in the margins that I don’t even remember when or why I wrote them.
After self driving cars are mandated you won’t need to worry about that. It will still put you in the water but why it did that won’t be your concern.
And that’s how they want it. NOTHING will be your concern.
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