'47 Percent' Filmmaker Once Saved Drowning Woman

[Eugene]

Source: Huffington Post

'47 Percent' Filmmaker Once Saved Drowning Woman

Posted: 03/13/2013 10:59 am EDT | Updated: 03/13/2013 11:06 am EDT

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -- The bartender who put himself at risk to do his civic duty by exposing Mitt Romney's damning "47 percent" speech had found himself compelled by a similar heroic impulse seven years earlier.

In 2005, the man was at work when he heard that a car had plunged into a nearby canal along Interstate 75. Realizing that he may need to cut the person out of the car, he quickly phoned a co-worker and asked him to bring a knife.

The man dove into the canal and worked to free the woman, but was unable to. The co-worker and a bystander dove into the canal and handed the knife off to the videographer, who quickly cut the woman out and pulled her from the car.

In an interview with The Huffington Post, the filmmaker recalled that everyone on the shore thought the woman in the car was dead when he arrived, but he jumped in anyway. "It had to be done," he said. "It was kind of fun for me. I remember being underwater smiling and saying, 'This is going to work out. This is going to be fine.'"

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[UTUSN]

1. O.K., it's settled: This is who I want for POPE. n/t

[drm604]

2. The right is going to try to smear this guy.

It's good that he has something like this in his past.

Edited to add: This gets better and better. At the end of that article it notes that the canal was full of alligators. The police refused to go in without shotguns.

[CTyankee]

3. I'm waiting for the smear campaign to begin, altho there won't be much they can do...

he videotaped Romney and his own words. They can't say the video was manipulated to make Romney "sound" bad or they would have by now.

But I fear for his life. I hope only a very few people know who he is...

[thucythucy]

4. He helped save an individual woman from drowning

and helped save his entire nation from making a catastrophic mistake.

Well done sir! Bravo!

[progressoid]

5. "The canal, they noticed, was crawling with alligators."

[jeff47]

6. Fox headline: Filmmaker goes after trapped woman with a knife (nt)

[SalviaBlue]

7. You nailed it.