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Massachusetts Man Dives into Freezing Harbor to Save 5-Year-Old Girl
FOXnews.com ^ | Associated Press

Posted on 03/27/2007 1:57:59 PM PDT by Soothesayer

BARNSTABLE, Mass. — A Yarmouth man leaped into Barnstable Harbor to rescue a 5-year-old girl moments after she lost her balance and fell in, officials said.

Gary Richard was eating lunch with his girlfriend in their car Saturday afternoon near the Ocean Street docks when they saw the girl fall in the water. She had been throwing rocks from a dock into the harbor.

"I dropped my sandwich and ran," the 39-year-old told the Cape Cod Times.

Richard, who moved to Yarmouth from Fall River six months ago, looked down from the edge of the dock and saw the girl in the water about 6 feet below.

"I saw her face and I just jumped," Richard said, describing the water as freezing. "It was so cold, it was painful."

The girl reached for him and Richard grabbed her under one of her arms. Richard held her up as the boyfriend of the girl's mother, who had been working on a boat nearby, took the child into his arms, police said.

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KEYWORDS: child; cool; hero; man; neverbekennedy; nolurch; saves; wouldneverbekerry
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To: Uncledave

Yup, he'll never be a Senator from Massachusetts. Poor guy :D


21 posted on 03/27/2007 3:01:27 PM PDT by ssaftler (Eccentric: A crazy person with lots of money.)
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To: NoGrayZone

Notice the guy moved FROM Fall River, that non bastion of money TO Barnstable, any part of the Cape means money, so the guy who jumped in was apparently well off...

My $.02


23 posted on 03/27/2007 3:22:46 PM PDT by RaceBannon (Innocent until proven guilty: The Pendleton 8...down to 3..GWB, we hardly knew ye...)
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To: ASOC
"the boyfriend of the girl's mother, " and I am surprised? No, not really.

It's the New Normal in child-rearing. To think it should be otherwise is judgmental and intolerant. And if a few kids fall off docks, well, what's a kid or two?

24 posted on 03/27/2007 3:27:10 PM PDT by madprof98 ("moritur et ridet" - salvianus)
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To: RaceBannon

What


25 posted on 03/27/2007 4:26:00 PM PDT by NoGrayZone
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To: madprof98

IT's not the falling off of docks that tears me up

It's the beatings

and rapes

and murders.

But you are correct, in some segments of the society, it is the 'new norm'.




As we continue to swirl around the drain.



Excuse me, my gradkids just dropped by, I'm going to have a little fun.


And say a prayer.


26 posted on 03/27/2007 7:19:54 PM PDT by ASOC (Yeah, well, maybe - but can you *prove* it?)
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To: metmom

Why didn't the mother jump in? Why didn't the boyfriend jump in? I'm not a hero but if my child--even my dog--fell in the water I'd jump in to rescue him. And have done so (for the idiot dog).


27 posted on 03/27/2007 7:29:52 PM PDT by Fairview ( Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.)
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To: Fairview

For all the years I homeschooled the kids and lived with them 24/7 (at that age) I never would have left a child unattended by the water like that. It was totally irresponsible.


28 posted on 03/27/2007 7:43:05 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Mr. K

That is good to know. Now we don't have to lose our lunch :)


29 posted on 03/30/2007 11:02:58 AM PDT by Soothesayer (Birth is murder!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

What's really disturbing is that a similar thing happened a few years back.

A guy saved a woman's life and she sued him. Amazingly, he said he still didn't regret saving her and forgave her.


30 posted on 03/30/2007 11:04:35 AM PDT by Soothesayer (Birth is murder!)
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To: Fairview

Simple: You are a healthy, sane human.

Those parents are inferior animals.


31 posted on 03/30/2007 11:06:37 AM PDT by Soothesayer (Birth is murder!)
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To: Soothesayer

"Err . . . ahh . . . I was on my way . . . ah . . . to help the geur-il . . . as you can see, but I, ah, needed a touch of the ah, creature, ah first. That wadda is coughld."

32 posted on 03/30/2007 11:09:27 AM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: Hemingway's Ghost

BAHAHAHAHA! :)


33 posted on 03/30/2007 1:53:05 PM PDT by Soothesayer (Birth is murder!)
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