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Man who lifted car off girl called 'Superman'
hdnews ^ | 12/16/2009, | MEAGAN PATTON

Posted on 12/19/2009 5:59:56 AM PST by JoeProBono

OTTAWA, Kan.

A young girl and her family are calling a local man their “Superman” after he lifted a car off of her in an accident early Friday morning.

Nick Harris, 32, was dropping off his daughter, 8-year-old Cheyenne, at Eugene Field Elementary school shortly before 8 a.m. when he saw the incident unfolding on Tremont Avenue — a driver backing her vehicle out of a driveway who was about to hit a student.

“I was getting ready to pull the emergency brake when I looked up and saw the vehicle backing over her,” Harris said. “I didn’t even think. I ran over there as fast as I could, grabbed the rear end of the car and lifted and pushed as hard as I could to get the tire off the child.”

That’s when he said he noticed the girl, a 6-year-old first-grader, was one of his daughter’s closest friends from school.

He told the driver of the car, 26-year-old Sarah Osladil, to put it in neutral to get the pressure off the girl, he said. He then carried the girl, who was screaming in pain, he said, over to the sidewalk.

“I got her backpack unstuck underneath the car,” Harris said. “I didn’t want to jerk her, but I had to move her, so I put her on the side of the road next to the driveway.”

He said he was going to go get his phone to call 911, but the girl said she wanted him to stay with her.

“I was the only one she knew, so I stayed there until her mother got there,” Harris said.

An ambulance took the child to Ransom Memorial Hospital, Ottawa, and then by air ambulance to Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Mo.

However, she suffered only minor injuries, including a concussion and some road rash, Harris said, and was able to go home the same day.

Harris said he visited her later that day.

When he got there, he was greeted by an alert, happy and grateful girl, who ran up to him and gave him a hug, Harris said.

“I was shocked,” Harris said. “I really didn’t expect for her to be running up to me and squeezing me. From what I seen with my own two eyes, she should not be walking right now.”

And that wasn’t the only thing that amazed Harris that day. He still doesn’t know how he found the strength to lift the vehicle off of her, he said.

“I know later on that day I tried a couple different times to lift a car like I did, and I couldn’t do it,” Harris said. “But somehow, adrenaline, hand of God, whatever you want to call it, I don’t know how I did it. It just happened.”

The next day, the girl attended Harris’ daughter’s roller skating birthday party, where she told everyone he was her Superman.

But Harris said he was simply a parent doing the right thing.

“I seen a situation, and I handled the situation the way I thought it needed handled,” Harris said. “The car had to get off of her. I reacted without thinking.

“I don’t consider myself a hero at all. People can call it what they want, but I’m just a dad who happened to be at the right place at the right time. I hope any parent who would have seen what I seen would have reacted the same way.”

He wasn’t hoping for any recognition, he said. He was just grateful the girl was OK.

“Everything happens for a reason,” Harris said. “To me, it was payment enough when she gave me that huge hug and said, ‘Thanks, Superman.' "


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To: JoeProBono
Sorry your image was not showing ... NOW it is .....BWAHAHAHA! Must be the looting elves.


21 posted on 12/19/2009 10:05:44 AM PST by Daffynition (What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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Where was "Bicycle Repair Man"?

22 posted on 12/19/2009 10:10:10 AM PST by dfwgator
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23 posted on 12/19/2009 10:15:45 AM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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LOL ...great catch!


24 posted on 12/19/2009 10:20:48 AM PST by Daffynition (What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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25 posted on 12/19/2009 10:32:01 AM PST by Daffynition (What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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26 posted on 12/19/2009 11:29:49 AM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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27 posted on 12/19/2009 3:43:56 PM PST by Daffynition (What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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28 posted on 12/19/2009 4:43:39 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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29 posted on 12/19/2009 5:08:46 PM PST by Daffynition (What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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30 posted on 12/19/2009 5:17:36 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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31 posted on 12/19/2009 5:18:44 PM PST by Bratch
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Flew her to the good ole USA with out killer health care system eh!?

Why don't you ping your own remark and have it removed by the mods........it doesn't belong on this thread...........

32 posted on 12/19/2009 5:22:57 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (I want a hoochie-mama for Christmas, only a hoochie-mama will do............)
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33 posted on 12/19/2009 5:57:35 PM PST by Daffynition (What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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Why would I? It is in error, but it’s hardly abusive or anything. :D


34 posted on 12/19/2009 7:56:57 PM PST by Shimmer1 (Tant que je vive)
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I wonder what the background gamma radiation was.


35 posted on 05/10/2010 8:05:54 AM PDT by ct_libertarian (Movie with a story or another Hollywood Marxist sermon? Find out at http://www.HollywoodSTFU.com)
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