.Update XI: Hero in Austin:
"Fox News is interviewing a guy (former military) named Robin DeHaven who works for a glass replacement company named Binswanger.
He drove to the building after seeing plane and smoke from the crash, put his ladders up to the building -- and when he saw that the people at the window were 'panicked' -- climbed into the building, and helped get five people out.
Incredible.
My friend writes, after a call to one of her colleagues:
I know the people he rescued. I used to be in that room. Thank the gods for people like him."
The New Editor
He drove to the building after seeing plane and smoke from the crash, put his ladders up to the building -- and when he saw that the people at the window were 'panicked' -- climbed into the building, and helped get five people out.
Incredible.
My friend writes, after a call to one of her colleagues:
I know the people he rescued. I used to be in that room. Thank the gods for people like him."
The New Editor
posted by madtom at 9:11 PM
6 Comments:
I wonder if he's heard from his liability carrier yet? Hell, anyone I know who carries ladders on their trucks, and I know many besides being one myself, would do the same thing and never consider it 'heroic' except for the defiance of their liability insurance commandments. That takes guts.
What do you mean not heroic? He did not just lend the people his ladder, he climbed up into the fire to get the panicked people out. Or did I hear that wrong?
Sounds heroic to me regardless of where you keep your ladder.
"liability insurance commandments. "
Actually glad to hear you again, that guys ranting sounded a bit familiar...if you know what I mean, thought for a moment it might be someone I knew...
The eyewitness report I heard said that the rescue came well before the fire had spread--- it wasn't like he went into an inferno and carried people down, though the way some of the reports read, one was left to think that was the case. He went up to tie the ladder off because the people couldn't tie a knot, but he did guide one lady down who was too scared to get on the ladder. Maybe he would have climbed into the flames to carry them down on his shoulders two at a time if it was necessary, but it wasn't nearly that dramatic. And it was only 15 ft off the ground, they could have jumped if it came to it. Sure, the guy did a good deed, but I can't imagine anyone I know not doing the same thing. My only worry would have been getting sued if someone sprained an ankle stepping off the ladder. Seriously. If you own a commercial ladder you better guard it with your life.
Yes, I hate the tax code and the standards at the IRS where you have to prove yourself innocent, but I wouldn't take it out on employees. They are just doing a grossly overpaid job to the bare minimum required, which isn't much. In fact, a cousin of mine worked at that very office as an agent up until two years ago.
I sure as hell wouldn't kill myself to make that point. And what I read of the guys manifesto was mostly leftist idiocy, though once again the reports would lead you to believe he was a conservative anti obama protester and rush listener.
"He went up to tie the ladder off"
Would you trust your ladder to someone's knot? I wouldn't. I never lend out my equipment, when you borrow from me you get the whole deal. I or my crew always come along to operate the tools...
As to rescues, I have at least, five under my belt, if I'm remembering them all... I swim.
Though, I did save a guy from drowning while standing on the dock and with less than ten feet of water. I didn't even wet my hands.
Trust my ladder to someone's knot? I didn't know you were supposed to tie a fucking ladder until 1995. Before that, we used 40 and 50 ft ladders to skin industrial metal buildings. Cherry picker? That's what we called a pussy hound back in the day moving from one small town to another in the oil field boom. Climb and move ladders 12 hours a day sometimes in 105 degree weather before global warming kicked in so you could blame Bush for the fucking heat and never tied a ladder once or lowered it before moving 3 ft to the next run. And I lost count of men's asses I saved from serious harm over the years, but that was back when you could say 'saved men's asses' and not have it thought that you were gay (faggot, back in the day if you were being polite) and gettin' 'it' all the time. Don't get me started.....
I guess it all depends on who or what your saving them for...Which reminds me I almost killed myself on a ladder once. The day after Hurricane Andrew, I climbed up to clear some stuff off the roof, as soon as I put my foot back on the ladder the hooks brook off and I went flying, landed on the driveway...lucky me I walked away with just a few bruises...
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