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Neighbours hail farmer as hero after he uses turban to pull drowning woman to safety
infonews.ca ^ | June 28, 2016 | Ashley Legassic

Posted on 06/29/2016 1:49:15 AM PDT by Ketill Frostbeard

KAMLOOPS - Nicole Mulcahy and Betty Timuss were having dinner in their home along Heffley Creek Saturday evening when they heard what sounded like two animals fighting.

The first time they heard it, they didn't think much of it. But then they heard it again. This time it was clearl. A girl yelling "I can't swim! Help!"

Timuss got her binoculars out and spotted the girl floating in the North Thompson River, only her head visible. Mulcahy ran across her back yard onto the dirt road in front of their home, where she saw her neighbours Avtar and Paul Hothi.

"I'm running as fast as I possibly can with no shoes on," Mulcahy said.

She whistled for the men and told them someone was drowning. Without hesitation, Avtar, Paul and four workers from a farm next door ran down a path and to the river bank where they had clear sight of the girl in the water.

Avtar, a Sikh, thought on his feet, and took his turban off to help pull the girl in.

"He threw his turban in. It's probably about 10 or 12 feet," Mulcahy said. "And then he pulled her in."

Timuss was still inside, gathering blankets and a skipping rope in case the girl floated down closer to her.

"You don't think in that situation," Timuss said. "All you're doing is trying to save that person in the water."

Timuss and Mulcahy say Avtar is a hard working man, who is always out in the fields of his farm.

"I said to him 'That's really using your head, Avtar'," Mulcahy said with a laugh. "Everybody pitched in, it's such a good community out here."

The girl was pulled to safety with no injuries other than being a little cold. Timuss wrapped her up in a blanket and Avtar drove her home.


TOPICS: Canada; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: drowning; rescue; sikh; turban
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The Sikh MacGyver :) Well done.
1 posted on 06/29/2016 1:49:16 AM PDT by Ketill Frostbeard
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To: Ketill Frostbeard

A “hero” would have jumped in to save her. Using a turban is like using a rope.


2 posted on 06/29/2016 2:20:15 AM PDT by raybbr (That progressive bumpers sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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To: raybbr

The Red Cross teaches life guards,”Reach, row,throw,go”. This person may not have been a strong enough swimmer to drag the victim back, but he did bring her ashore.


3 posted on 06/29/2016 2:29:08 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: Ketill Frostbeard

It didn’t end in an honor killing...no muslims involved.


4 posted on 06/29/2016 2:45:32 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: raybbr

Yeah a hero would have jumped in and drown with her.


5 posted on 06/29/2016 3:02:55 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: raybbr

The important point is to save the person—not to do something that looks heroic.

If the rope method didn’t work or wasn’t available, jumping in might very well be in order, but it is much more risky to both parties—not only might the rescurer be drowned (most likely unintentionally by the first person in), but a drowned rescuer really isn’t much use.


6 posted on 06/29/2016 3:22:22 AM PDT by Hieronymus ( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton))
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To: Kartographer

Yeah, but throwing her a rope doesn’t make him a hero.


7 posted on 06/29/2016 3:56:36 AM PDT by raybbr (That progressive bumpers sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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He’s Sikh, most are good people just waiting to become Christians. Thank God this story has a happy ending.


8 posted on 06/29/2016 4:02:10 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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Yeah, he’s such a slacker loser for saving her/s


9 posted on 06/29/2016 4:07:42 AM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: Hieronymus
The important point is to save the person—not to do something that looks heroic.

No sh!t Sherlock. That's not what I meant. Calling what he did "heroic" is a misuse of the term.

10 posted on 06/29/2016 4:19:22 AM PDT by raybbr (That progressive bumpers sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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Yeah, but throwing her a rope doesn’t make him a hero.

Yeah, and having the ability to post on FR doesn't mean that you have any intelligence or relevance either. You're obviously just a loser.

11 posted on 06/29/2016 4:20:32 AM PDT by 2nd amendment mama ( www.2asisters.org | Self defense is a basic human right!)
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In the drowning woman’s eyes he most certainly is a hero for saving her.


12 posted on 06/29/2016 4:22:15 AM PDT by 2nd amendment mama ( www.2asisters.org | Self defense is a basic human right!)
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"Avtar, a Sikh, thought on his feet, and took his turban off to help pull the girl in.

Cool, I knew when I saw the headline that the good guy was a sikh. A towel wouldn't have reached, one would think.

13 posted on 06/29/2016 5:24:25 AM PDT by OKSooner (It isn't "Radical Islam", it is FUNDAMENTALIST ISLAM. (Posted by LegendHasIt, June 12th, 2016))
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You might ax the girl’s opinion before popping off like that.


14 posted on 06/29/2016 5:25:16 AM PDT by OKSooner (It isn't "Radical Islam", it is FUNDAMENTALIST ISLAM. (Posted by LegendHasIt, June 12th, 2016))
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Too bad Vikings didn’t wear turbans; they seem to have alternative uses for survivalists...

Possible a few fashionable Vikings in the Varangian Guards assigned to the Eastern Emperor in Constantinople might have adopted them ;)


15 posted on 06/29/2016 6:08:53 AM PDT by Ketill Frostbeard ("Socialism is the Sword of Islam, and Islam is Satan clothed in flesh.")
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To: raybbr

Um, you’re the only one coming to your defense. Not a positive sign dude.......


16 posted on 06/29/2016 6:29:56 AM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: leaning conservative

I once saved my 10 year old nephew from drowning by swimming with him undertow. Today is my 71st. B/Day, I doubt very much that I could do it again, we’d both wind up drowning and I’d be wishing, “If I only had a rope or something similar handy”.


17 posted on 06/29/2016 7:26:31 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (Crooked Hillary's going down and I aint talkin about, on Huma.)
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In the drowning woman’s eyes he most certainly is a hero for saving her.

I may not meet the above freeper's high standards, but I've been known to call people "my hero" for opening the child-proof cap on a medicine vial.

18 posted on 06/29/2016 7:36:58 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (We will no longer surrender this country to the false song of globalism. –Donald Trump)
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To: Hieronymus

Rescue of the non-swimmer often requires subduing the victim with a hold from behind, to avoid becoming subject to their panicked behavior. This requires a strong swimmer to make way to shore encumbered with one or more limbs involved with a holding action. Much less difficulty for a solo rescue swimmer, if the drowning victim has ceased struggle, as long as effective CPR can be immediately applied.


19 posted on 06/29/2016 8:19:19 AM PDT by Ozark Tom
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To: raybbr

Yeah, but drowning would. I bet if it was you in the river drowning and he threw you a rope you would refuse to grab it, because he didn’t have the guts to jump in and save you.


20 posted on 06/29/2016 11:02:43 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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