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Delivery driver saves toddler wandering in traffic in dead of night
FOX News ^ | September 7, 2021 | Emma Colton

Posted on 09/07/2021 1:25:55 PM PDT by artichokegrower

A California food delivery driver is being lauded as a hero after video showed him hopping out of his vehicle to save a toddler running across a busy road at night.

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I’m not the hero," driver Gerson Tavares said of the incident, which was captured on his dashcam. "God is the hero."


A good man in many ways

1 posted on 09/07/2021 1:25:55 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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Definitely a good man. How in the world did that kid get out on the highway?


2 posted on 09/07/2021 1:30:47 PM PDT by Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me)
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Yes indeed. I’d trade all the traitors in this country for more like him.


3 posted on 09/07/2021 1:31:55 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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Tavares said the boy may have been distracted by a game tablet during the incident.

He was playing on a beeber and just wandered out into traffic, like any normal kid would. Maybe it was a game of Pokemon GO.

The world has gone mad.

4 posted on 09/07/2021 1:35:11 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Nature, art, silence, simplicity, peace. And fungi.)
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Mad indeed. Why was he out at NIGHT? His parents need to be put on some kind of child abuse watch list.


5 posted on 09/07/2021 1:39:19 PM PDT by Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me)
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To: artichokegrower

When I was a young fireman we were driving back from a call and came up on an infant in diapers crawling in the street, no one else around. We stopped, scooped him up and started a door to door.

Mom was 2 houses down and never saw him go out the door. He could barely reach the handle.


6 posted on 09/07/2021 1:50:10 PM PDT by DainBramage
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probably a father himself. Through some strange alchemy of life the superhero in a man comes to life after he becomes a dad and he sees a kid in danger.

Evidence:

Youtube: Dads with lightning fast reflexes compilation

7 posted on 09/07/2021 1:50:21 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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Oops. Paste error. Thank god I hadn't been shopping for hemeroid cream earlier today.

Try this instead:

The REAL life-saving dad compilation

8 posted on 09/07/2021 1:53:26 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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Little boys are always escaping in the middle of the night. Their parents think the boy is sleeping, and go to bed themselves. Then he wakes up and decides to go for a walk.


9 posted on 09/07/2021 1:54:35 PM PDT by proxy_user
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To: DainBramage

Reminds me of the Dave Chapelle of skit about the crack baby.


10 posted on 09/07/2021 2:00:29 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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Scary! In 1975 or so, my mom and I found a baby in diapers crawling across a semi busy residential street in Littleton, CO. We thought we were seeing things. We found a nearby house with the door open and the mom sound asleep on the couch. I was only a kid but, in hindsight, we should have taken the poor kid to the local police.


11 posted on 09/07/2021 2:04:15 PM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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People should have extra locks on doors with toddlers, or an alarm system. Years ago, at Christmastime, a little child in Chicago area got up predawn, and went out on the porch to look for Santa. The door locked behind her, and she froze to death. She was three or four.


12 posted on 09/07/2021 2:08:12 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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::Through some strange alchemy of life the superhero in a man comes to life after he becomes a dad and he sees a kid in danger.::

~~~~~

Thank God for the real dads.


13 posted on 09/07/2021 2:09:09 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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Little boys are always escaping in the middle of the night. Their parents think the boy is sleeping, and go to bed themselves. Then he wakes up and decides to go for a walk.

I have a three year old that has learned to defeat pretty much all of the childproof barriers I've installed to the point where our baby gates are lashed tight with bungee cords.

And, yes, she did escape the house once and went running down the street of our cul-de-sac.

Little kids are fast! And it only takes a moment of inattentiveness (especially with three other kids in the house) and they've escaped.

14 posted on 09/07/2021 2:09:49 PM PDT by Drew68
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AMEN!!!! What a man!!!


15 posted on 09/07/2021 2:13:44 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: DainBramage

My older brother was brought back by firemen or police officers many times as a toddler. Small town so they knew who he was and where we lived.

They were funny stories until my middle child was born. That girl has very long fingers and she was strong and dexterous way beyond her physical age. She could unbuckle her car seat before she was two, remove any design of safety latch and climb like a monkey.

I once found her and her younger sister butt naked riding their trikes around the block about 6:30 am and the gate latch was still on! Turns out she removed it to get out and put it back on so she wouldn’t get in trouble for it.

She gave me so many grey hairs. And she still loves to travel.


16 posted on 09/07/2021 2:20:28 PM PDT by Valpal1
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why?


17 posted on 09/07/2021 2:21:23 PM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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She wasn’t very contrite, shocked, or thankful.


18 posted on 09/07/2021 2:24:09 PM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: Drew68

After I got my two little ones down for a nap, I dozed off for a quick one myself. I woke and found a trail of clothes leading to open front door. My 3 year old was across the street, naked, doing the rain dance in the neighbors water sprinkler.

It happens. Lol.


19 posted on 09/07/2021 2:24:19 PM PDT by myprecious ( Brief uncloaking from lurking)
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my second crawled away at a high end store. I thought she was behind me, I kept seeing her red sun hat in my peripheral vision, turned out to be something else red.

I started looking for her and it turned out that she crawled past 10 adults in line for check out and out the open wide doors into the parking lot. Not one adult said a peep. She was in the middle of the lot.

I walked back in with her and very slowly looked at each of the adults until they all dropped their eyes or left in embarrassment.

Evil comes in many forms.


20 posted on 09/07/2021 2:26:06 PM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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