Blue-eyed Florida state trooper Schuck put her car and thus her own body between a crowd of joggers and a drunk driver. She may not be a model, but her heart is beautiful, and her sense of duty sublime.
A Florida state trooper is being hailed as a hero that saved dozens of lives after she deliberately crashed her patrol SUV straight into the front end of the car driven by an accused drunk driver that was going to barrel through a community jogger race.
[source: https://www.theblaze.com/news/fl-trooper-crash-dui-runners]
Police said 52-year-old Kristen Kay Watts had driven around numerous roadblocks on Sunday when her car threatened to plow into people running the annual Skyway 10k race.
“This driver had blown past several check points, going around traffic cones, going around other officers and had engaged in high speeds,” said Trooper Ken Watson on Monday.
Instead, 47-year-old Master Trooper Toni Schuck made the split-second decision to drive into Watts’ car to save the runners.
Schuck was left with serious injuries from the high speed collision and is healing from a concussion and a head wound. Watts was also hospitalized.
The dashcam from Schuck’s SUV shows the stunning moment Watts’ car slammed into the trooper’s vehicle.
….My analysis
First, my hat is way off for this state trooper. There may be, and there are, some bad cops out there…. but there are also heroes and heroines who truly serve and protect.
Second, this is yet another contribution by an American of German blood.
Third, I have put my life on the line in many incarnations. Ironically, in this one, I saved in 2004 a teenage jewess from drowning, or at the very least a concussion and facial disfigurement — how horrible, especially, for a female, and she WAS cute in a dark sort of way — on a rocky area of the French Riviera.
A huge, surprise wave (maybe from a passing tanker or cargo ship) had swept her out to sea, and the next wave was about to slam her right back onto the rocks.
I clambered down the rocky slope to where she had been sitting and waited for the giant wave to power her — I hoped — right back to the same spot. I do think she would have drowned if her head had hit the rocks. The big wave washed over me, but at 190 pounds I was much heavier, and then there she was, all safe in my arms. 🙂
In all such cases of deliberately risking your life for others, it is indeed scary, and very intense — but you also feel incredibly alive and fulfilled.
You are doing your sacred duty, saving lives. A friend in need is a friend, indeed.
It feels great to do something heroic.
My religion will make you always feel that way: loving, proud and fulfilled.
That is what doing your duty does; it makes life meaningful. You matter.
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John, will you be on VK if the site goes down ?
Probably.