Posted on 08/06/2018 6:25:46 AM PDT by simpson96
There have been numerous sad instances of people jumping off of freeway overpasses to their deaths.(snip)
But one officer encountered a truly unique situation that could have easily claimed her life, too.
When 28-year-old Officer Jessie Ferreira Cavallo saw what looked like a teenager run off an overpass, she didn’t really have to think about what she was going to do next; she just acted.(snip)
The young officer could see the teenage boy lying on the concrete below, though the thing that she noticed most was the blood everywhere. The scene didn’t look promising.
“I wasn’t thinking too much,” Cavallo said, according to the Rockland/Westchester Journal News. “I just knew, when I looked down and saw him … he looked dead.”
“I couldn’t see anything other than blood. I thought to myself, ‘He needs help. I need to help him.'”(snip)
As soon as she saw what he was doing, she grabbed her first aid kit and launched herself after him. Somehow, the fall that incapacitated him did little to slow her down.
“Everything happened so fast and I think my adrenaline was pumping so high,” she said. “He just climbed up and jumped off.”(snip)
He was taken to the hospital, and while Cavallo is unsure of his current condition, she wishes him nothing but the best.(snip)
It took her some time for the magnitude of her death-defying leap to hit her. In the moment it seemed like the right thing to do, and somehow she walked away without major injuries.
“Friday, after this whole thing happened,” she said, “I went to work and worked to 11 p.m. I didn’t realize what was going on until yesterday. That’s when it hit me. I didn’t realize how high it was. It seemed doable. It didn’t seem that high.”
(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...
Hilarious!
But only if the author was the star linebacker.
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