“OTTAWA, Kan. – A Kansas mother is praising a neighbor as “Superman” after her 6-year-old daughter told her he somehow found the strength to lift a car off her. The girl escaped with minor injuries after she and neighbor Nick Harris said she was pinned under the vehicle.
“He really is Superman,” Kristen Hough, the child’s mother, said Friday of Harris, the man she said saved her daughter, Ashlyn.
Harris, 32, said he doesn’t know how he managed to lift the Mercury sedan off the child. The 5-foot-7, 185-pound Harris said he tried later that day to lift other cars and couldn’t.
“But somehow, adrenaline, hand of God, whatever you want to call it, I don’t know how I did it,” he said.
Harris was dropping off his 8-year-old daughter at school last week when he saw a driver backing her car out of a driveway and over the child, Harris said. “I didn’t even think. I ran over there as fast as I could, grabbed the rear end of the car and lifted and pushed as hard as I could to get the tire off the child,” he said.”
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Wow what a hero!
Sounds from the last line like he pushed the car off his daughter, a worthy though slightly less miraculous feat.
Derren, am I right in recalling that you once accomplished this through hypnosis? I seem to remember watching some TV show documentary about a man with a beard investigating hypnosis. Someone hypnotised him to believe someone was stuck under a car, and then the bearded man lifted the car up. It was years ago, but I swear it was you…
I remember reading an interview many years ago with Simon Le Bon in which he spoke about a near-death experience when his yacht, Drum, capsized. In order to escape he and three (I think) other crewmen had to lift a mast that previously had needed many more people to be moved. Fearing for their lives, they found the strength to do it, though afterwards were astonished at how they managed it.
I don’t know the science, but it seems that adrenaline can have a huge effect on people’s abilities in times of crisis.
He pushed .. it says there itself .. he pushed .. the most of the car’s weight is on the other 3 wheels .. although .. how steep was the road .. And what part of the body did it ran over … if it is a leg she might have rolled with the wheel … I wont try though …
People do have more strength at times for sure … I experience this myself as well … depends on my state of mind .. not really adrenaline .. (although with adrenaline .. I’ll become the hulk I guess), but to lift a car. Reminds me of this movie in which a guy lifts a tractor … but he took some stuff .. and it was a movie ofcourse .. ehehe ..
Anyhow .. if true .. nice!
i’ve actually heard of this happening before. isnt the combination of motivation & adrenaline just great?
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Bill Bixby Hulk (in start of pilot?) woman picks up a car to save a child just as he had done (very good flash back effects). I agree with the notion of physical strength and adrenaline. No need for the extra dose of gamma radiation to lift/push a car of a stranger let alone a loved one.
Well, Clark Kent was raised in Kansas. Perhaps some of those Kryptonian special abilities rubbed off.
I very much doubt it was as the title says it was. The man didn’t lift a car. He probably tilted back-side (one wheel) it’s not that difficult and just pushed it. At least I assume it from what he said (not from the article title). Anyway all witnesses where panicked and it’s most probably just another gossip. Of course this man is a hero for saving the child
Yeah, sounds like a form of adrenalin rush to me….. still, a wonderful thing to do, though!
LC x
Hmmm, this may be a bit of an urban legend… I heard a similar story several times, either that or its actually very common for people to lift cars off of children??
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