Posted on 10/31/2010 8:04:55 PM PDT by cycle of discernment
October 28 2010 Seattle Times
Ballard man recalls pulling girl from fiery car and a vision days later
By Erik Lacitis Seattle Times staff reporter
It would take an unusual man to decide, in a split second after witnessing a car crash, to crawl into the Subaru that had erupted into flames 8 feet high to try to save a little girl and her dad.
He remembers talking to himself as he went into the Subaru:
"Oh, my God, this car is gonna blow up and I'm going to be in it. Well, if does blow up, I guess I'm going straight to heaven because I'm trying to save that little girl."
He did save the 3-year-old, Anna Kotowicz, who suffered a broken arm and some bruising.
Her dad, Andy Kotowicz, 37, who had just picked up his daughter at day care, died at Harborview Medical Center three days later. He had worked for 10 years as a sales and marketing executive at Sub Pop, the Seattle record company.
Days passed, and Johnson went back to his routine.
That is, until Tuesday morning around 6, he says.
"My wife is next to me in bed. She's sleeping. Everything is where it's supposed to be," says Johnson. "Then there is this man standing right by the bed. He says he needs help with a few things. I say, 'OK.'
"Now, I know it's him (Kotowicz) even though the only time I had seen him was at the accident, when he didn't look, you know, normal. He says he wants me to give a message to his wife and to his daughter.
"He also tells me to talk to the people at Sub Pop, he wants to let them know not to be mad at the driver that caused the accident."
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The human body, mind, and spirit is capable of doing much, much more than we think.
What it WILL do is another story.
Let’s just say that Adversity reveals character.
Well, if he ripped the door off it's hinges (statement of witnesses), and dived into a burning car to save a child, I hope he gets tons of business.
It is not that it is easy, or not-easy. You just do.
To quote Yoda, “There is no try. There is do, or not-do.”
The human body is capable of amazing feats in times of need - given incentive, your muscles can strain hard enough to literally break your bones. That is, you can pick up a car, but you might break your arms doing it.
It would be almost impossible to rip an intact door off it’s hinges.
The fact that the car was smashed into a five foot long box likely damaged the hinges to the point where it was possible, with an adrenalin rush, to rip the door loose.
But, Haven’t we all heard stories of people who lift a car to get a trapped child out?
Who knows? As others have said, there are some things we do not and may not ever understand, until we pass this physical plane.
I do not see ghosts.
Gott Sei Dank. What I do see, is enough.
Oh, sorry - I got the gist of it, I guess.
Probably near zero. It is extremely unlikely that that a man with his character, risking an excruciatingly painful death to save a child, would then stoop to pond scum level and lie about seeing a vision of the dead father of the child he rescued just to drum up business.
Well said.
It’s adrenaline. Almost totally masks pain and lets you fully use your muscles in a burst. People can literally rip their arms out of their own sockets, snap their own bones, etc. and keep going.
When the adrenaline wears off, though - OUCH! (Been there.)
Bravo, HerrBlucher.
“Can’t believe the car was not an evil SUV”
Both cars had drivers. Evil SUVs don’t have drivers. They act on their own.
Hope this explains it.
I’ll disagree. It took incredible courage to step into that fire and rescue the child. He’s not a firefighter, wasn’t wearing any protective clothing, no special training. Just a man with balls bigger than his brains.
The jaws of life have to be under extream pressure to tear a door off the hinges. No normal man can do it. However, I have heard that adrenalyn can do amazing things.
Lots of people were saying they saw my Mother after she died. They thought and still do, that they were bringing me comfort in saying that. Then I had a dream where she came to me and was scolding me for something. I invoked the name of Jesus and rebuked Satan. That was that.
Jesus said that we were not allowed to come back and talk to our loved ones. Even if it’s just to warn them about the reality of HELL.
So God’s not going to allow them to come back and give comforting messages and other BS either. If you see a ghost, know that it’s not a spirit that lost it’s way or hasn’t gone into the light, but something else. And they aren’t friendly. They deceive. And they posess.
I agree HerrBlucher, he is telling his story, and he told it. Was he supposed to edit? God bless him, that’s all.
I wonder why the deceased went to the man who saved his daughter and not his own family?
Yes, well said. Sometimes some of our FRiends can be a little too cynical. Don’t think that’s really called for here as you so aptly explained.
Actually back in the 1960’s my dad was trapped under his car when it rolled and he was ejected. We never knew who did so, but there were two men that lifted the car sufficiently to get my father out. That was down near Tucumcari sp NM.
This is not as unusual as some think it is. What I personally find interesting is how many times the departed appear to other than their actual loved ones, but use someone else to get a message to family members. I had a hard time understanding that until I read if they appeared to the grieving it would be very difficult to get past your grief and and start to heal; as one medium put it, if you thought you could go to bed and they came to you in a dream, would you even want to get out of bed? Of course many would not. There is a definite difference between dreaming about the deceased and having them actually come to you in a dream and once you have experienced it you do know the difference. A book I just finished reading, it took me some time to finish because it affected me so emotionally reading it, but it is so well written on the subject I recommend it to anyone who has lost a loved-one... “Love Beyond Life.”
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