andros_rexTrans comedian hailed 'a true hero' after saving baby from Chicago lake
TropicalDingdongHe told ABC 7 Chicago that he “wasn’t going to let that baby die” and could see that the mother was “too panicked to do anything”.
Cundiff recalled holding the stroller that had the eight-month-old girl in, while treading water for several minutes.
He said they both went under a few times, but were helped up a ladder to safety and taken to hospitals in separate ambulances. Both are in good health.
Jesus fucking christ. I’ve done a few rough water rescues. Usually tourists who don’t know a break, and a few times locals who just get mixed up. Any one can get into a bad situation. But a lake in Chicago? Bruh I’d fucking DIE, and I’m a consider myself a strong swimmer, one of the stronger more skilled watermen or wahine at my break. Like at a beach of a break you are expecting it and people are looking for it, but at a park in winter?
Mad props to this beast.
I’ve had to one water rescue in a lake, and it sucked. The water was in the 50s and it was about 30 degrees outside. I can’t imagine doing one in Chicago.
And in my case the rescue wasn’t that difficult. I’m a scuba instructor at a university and we were doing a big dive weekend at the end of the Fall semester, and any time we have a bunch of people in the water, we like to leave one instructor on the surface to organize and be in charge of everything. A group came up yelling for help.
I ran into the water and swam out to meet them and tow in the victim while having my divemasters prep the aid station and assemble the O2 kits, and the guy was barely conscious and turning blue.
As I stripped his gear off, I noticed he was wearing a semi-dry wetsuit that was REALLY tight. I cut relief slits in the suit with my shears and by the time I’d dragged him out of the water he was fully awake and color had returned. Turns out he’d found the suit on Craigslist really cheap and insisted on using it even though it was too small, and between that and the colder water down deep his circulation had been restricted.
But even with that fairly easy rescue (the same suit that caused the problem also made him supper floaty), the cold air and water made it exhausting. I can’t imagine doing a much more difficult rescue in Chicago water.
TruscapeKING SHIT hell yeah
SubArcticTundraI feel like mentioning they were trans isn’t really relevant here. It annoys me when they do this
Trans issues and stories do garner an inordinate amount of traction on Lemmy. I, perhaps naïvely, thought the aim of the game was to normalise society so that race, gender and sexuality are irrelevant. The configuration of other people’s genitals and where they want to put them is of zero interest to me, personally, but I suspect I’m in a minority.
NatanoxYou’re missing the issue, unfortunately. What you say is technically correct, but as long as a minority id actively persecuted they have to be actively shown to be normal and nice people to, well, normalize their existence. And right now the evil people are winning, so it’s even more important to mention it. We’re as far away from trans being normalized like left-handedness as it gets.
I see why this might even annoys some, but it’s not trans people who want to be in this situation. We (yes, hello 👋) just want to fucking live our lifes in peace and happiness, without the constant (additional) fighting and fear for our life.
About Lemmy… well, it’s the current alternative to corporate media. It’s just natural that those who’re vilified and cast’ out are the first to arrive here, as well as their allies. 😉
I’m curious how you would feel about a news platform that doesn’t use gender as a lens of viewing things through at all. Completely de-gender everything using gender neutral language.
Something like “Brave bystander rescue drowning baby while the parent struggles to respond”, applied to everything.
As of now it feels like an arms race. The bad actors highlight gender/sexuality disproportionately for every little negative thing they can find and the good guys respond by highlighting the actual insane amount of good things these groups do.
Exactly, this is the viewpoint that I’m coming from – they were a good human and no labels are needed to qualify that. The comments from people in the US have made me aware of the need to counter anti-trans propaganda over there though. Labelling is unfair if only one side does it
Did you miss the part where trans people have been vilified for years, not least by the current US government? It is absolutely relevant to highlight trans people that disprove their propaganda narratives.
The guy who shot Charlie Kirk possibly had a trans girlfriend, and that’s all we heard about for weeks. The fact that the school shooter in Canada last week was trans is all half the media is talking about.
If the media is going to have a meltdown any time a trans person is adjacent to something bad, we can celebrate something like this.
I’m kinda surprised that the Zizians didn’t get more news coverage to be honest. You’d think they’d be obsessed with a tech-based death cult where half the leadership are trans
look, I get it. but you have to understand something.
in a world where everything tells you that you’re not good enough, or that you don’t matter. having someone or something as a beacon of hope goes a long way.
Imagine being a 10 year old trans kid and feeling like everyone hates you and then hearing about this story. what do you think that 10 year old kid is going to feel?
that is why labels on this article matter.
LucidlethargyI’m glad they did… Trans peeple are being villainized, and this counters that.
It would make no sense in a society that was healthy, but here we are…
Yeah, when I picture a society where a minority is being labelled and dehumanized then it makes full sense
Cundiff’s mother, Karen Cundiff, told the Tribune: “I’m so happy that this baby has a chance for a future and a life. “I’m so glad both [he] and the baby are OK because both of them could have died.”
And his mom literally misgenders him in front of the world after he saves a baby’s life.
🌈 vanta rainbow black 🌈i would grab the baby and throw it back in if somebody pulled this shit on me
I’ve got a friend who transitioned from Accountant to Comedian. She’s broke but much happier.
I’ve never been in a scenario where there was an emergency situation where I was on hand when someone needed to urgently take action to avoid a dire outcome, but I can only hope that I would have the courage that this guy had. Mad respect
Omg!!! The drag queens are going to…
Wait… Saved?
Unfortunately, now ICE is aware of his existence.