coyote
Flashlight Enthusiast
just thought i'd pass this on to everyone.
if you don't believe it, just run a google and see that it's everywhere on the net.
here's just one link from NBC: http://www.nbc11.com/family/6208940/detail.html
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Dogs Alert Deputy; Help Save Collapsed Owner's Life
CENTERTON, Ind. -- A sheriff's deputy who found a diabetic man who had
collapsed in a cornfield said the man's dogs are a major reason why he
survived.
Morgan County, Ind., sheriff's Deputy Steve Hoffman said he had just
finished with a traffic stop on a rural road in Centerton, Ind., one evening
recently when he noticed something odd coming from a cornfield.
"I noticed what appeared to be an illumination or a light that was
flickering and facing my direction," Hoffman said.
Hoffman said he went toward the light, where he found an unconscious Bill
Burns and Burns' two dogs. The light was coming from a flashlight, which one
of the dogs was holding in its mouth.
The other dog was lying on Burns as if to keep him warm, Hoffman said.
Hoffman said he saw Burns was wearing a bracelet that indicated he was a
diabetic. Burns was taken to a hospital, where he spent four days before
being released.
Burns had been walking with the dogs when he collapsed. He said he doesn't
remember the ordeal, but he believes that Hoffman seeing Burns' flashlight
in the mouth of one of the dogs is remarkable.
"It's got to be just fate or faith, one or the other," Burns said.
Hoffman said the dogs "definitely are the heroes in the story."
"Had he not had the dogs with him that evening, I think the outcome would
have been a lot worse," Hoffman said.
if you don't believe it, just run a google and see that it's everywhere on the net.
here's just one link from NBC: http://www.nbc11.com/family/6208940/detail.html
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Dogs Alert Deputy; Help Save Collapsed Owner's Life
CENTERTON, Ind. -- A sheriff's deputy who found a diabetic man who had
collapsed in a cornfield said the man's dogs are a major reason why he
survived.
Morgan County, Ind., sheriff's Deputy Steve Hoffman said he had just
finished with a traffic stop on a rural road in Centerton, Ind., one evening
recently when he noticed something odd coming from a cornfield.
"I noticed what appeared to be an illumination or a light that was
flickering and facing my direction," Hoffman said.
Hoffman said he went toward the light, where he found an unconscious Bill
Burns and Burns' two dogs. The light was coming from a flashlight, which one
of the dogs was holding in its mouth.
The other dog was lying on Burns as if to keep him warm, Hoffman said.
Hoffman said he saw Burns was wearing a bracelet that indicated he was a
diabetic. Burns was taken to a hospital, where he spent four days before
being released.
Burns had been walking with the dogs when he collapsed. He said he doesn't
remember the ordeal, but he believes that Hoffman seeing Burns' flashlight
in the mouth of one of the dogs is remarkable.
"It's got to be just fate or faith, one or the other," Burns said.
Hoffman said the dogs "definitely are the heroes in the story."
"Had he not had the dogs with him that evening, I think the outcome would
have been a lot worse," Hoffman said.
