A man who fell through the ice on a frozen Michigan lake was rescued after a quick-thinking state police officer used the stranded man’s dog to get rescue equipment to him and pull the man to safety.
Bystanders called 911 on Thursday after the 65-year-old Traverse City man fell through ice-covered Arbutus Lake, state police said.
The body camera worn by Kammeron Bennetts, a Michigan state police motor carrier officer, captured the rescue, initially showing the man trapped in frigid waters with just his head and shoulders above the thin ice, and his dog standing at his side.
It shows Bennetts first trying to throw a rescue disc tethered to a rope out to the man. When it fails, Bennetts asks the man to send his dog to him.
“Send your pup here. Will she come to me?” he yells to the man, who replies that his dog’s name is Ruby.
“Ruby, come here! Come here, Ruby!” Bennetts shouts in the video before whistling for the canine, which runs to him and arrives tail wagging.
The officer ties the rescue disc to the dog’s collar and asks the man to call Ruby back to him. When she returns to her owner, Bennetts tells the man to take the disc from Ruby and to start kicking his legs.
“Bring your feet up to the surface by kicking your feet!” he yells, pulling the man on to the lake’s icy surface and urging him to hold on to the disc as he keeps pulling on the rope, dragging him on to safer ice near the lake’s edge. Bennetts and a local firefighter are then able to grab his arms to complete the rescue, with Ruby still attached to the rope.
State police said the man was taken by ambulance to a hospital for treatment and later released. The agency cheered the rescue in a posting on X, formerly known as Twitter, praising Ruby in particular.
“What a good girl!!! Amazing ice rescue,” the post states. “Creative thinking helped save a life!!”
The post adds: “Great team work and well done!”
earlier this week, another good dog to the rescue
‘Good boy’: dog saves Philadelphia neighborhood from potentially explosive gas leak | US news | The Guardian
a few good barks and growls from an old dog, not necessarily a good one
The battle for the soul of America isn’t Right vs. Left. It’s Normal vs. Crazy.
and for those one or two fans out there, click here for his monologue where
Bill kicks off the 22nd season of Real Time with his take on the week’s top stories.
in case you missed it, here’s the twiXt on Ruby, the good dog of the day
to be fair and balanced, there are good cats out there who save owners and families from home fires and such. one reported a few years ago is quite notable. all hail the hero Binky:
Cat Saves Owner By Attacking & Injuring Burglar In Action | iHeartCats.com
Image source: Screen Shot via ABC7
Another mental lapse:: Trump confuses Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi when talking about Jan. 6
video of Trump blaming Nikki for Jan. 6 (he meant Pelosi)
https://www.tiktok.com/@couriernewsroom/video/7326010229706067242?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc
I figure that sooner or later he’s going to slip up and say something stupid.
There’s no reason why Bill Maher needs to keep making stupid mask jokes. They’re not funny. People are allowed to wear masks wherever they want without harassment or shaming. Maybe the guy lost his dentures. A lady I know wants to cover her chin wag. Doesn’t matter. It’s a free country, Bill, so shut up about it.
Other than that, I agree with every word.
Mahar is maybe like Dennis Miller, ie, growing more and more un-funny with the passage of time.
I’ve heard nothing from him for a long time except what I see here. I guess he’s had some funny here and there along the way.
I figure he’s mostly at least on the right side of things.
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/01/19/texas-appeals-court-ken-paxton-emails/
“A lawsuit to force two Texas leaders to release years of their emails, including about the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, can move forward thanks to a Wednesday appeals court decision.”
“The group wanted access to years of Abbott and Paxton’s communications, including both men’s emails with NRA officials and Paxton’s emails in the days around Jan. 6, 2021.”
“Paxton attended and spoke at the pro-Donald Trump rally before the attack on the U.S. Capitol that year. The attorney general has declined to say who paid for his trip to DC, and has refused to release his communications from before, during and after the event.”
Abbott and Paxton said their offices did not have any communications with NRA officials. They refused to release the other records, citing rules protecting confidential communications with attorneys and discussions about pending lawsuits.”
“The Third Court of Appeals in Austin ruled that Attorney General Ken Paxton and Gov. Greg Abbottdid not make the case for the lawsuit against them to be thrown out.”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/19/europe/belarus-adopts-doctrine-involving-nuclear-weapons-intl-hnk/index.html
“Belarus on Friday adopted a new military doctrine that – if approved – would be the first step toward deploying nuclear weapons across the country.”
“The Union State of Belarus and Russia Treaty sets up a legal basis for a wide-ranging alliance between the two countries.”
“Belarus “is open to cooperation in the military sphere with any countries, including NATO states,” he said, “provided their aggressive rhetoric against Belarus is stopped.”
“Minsk has played a key role in Russia’s war in Ukraine. Last June, Russian nuclear warheads were reportedly delivered to Belarus for “deterrence,” according to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
today’s meme…
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/19/economy/american-dream-millennials/index.html
“There’s a perception so prevalent in post-Covid America it’s practically become a cliché: The economy is good but the vibes are bad.”
“Having skirted an actual recession last year, we entered a vibecession in which virtually all economic data suggests the United States is thriving, but people aren’t quite feeling the effects.”
“In a CNN poll conducted last month, a stunning 71% of Americans said economic conditions in the country were “poor,” with 38% calling them “very poor.” And that’s somehow better than in the summer of 2022, when 82% said the economy was poor.”
“Last year was a particularly painful time for consumers across the board. Prices were still rising quickly, and so were interest rates, making credit card debt and other loans especially painful to pay down. Over the summer, credit card delinquencies surpassed pre-pandemic levels for the first time, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.”
“A strong economy isn’t necessarily going to provide parental leave or affordable housing,” Duke says. “Those are investments that we as a society have to fight for.”
“We’d love to have kids back to back,” Rachael says. “I’d love for him to have a partner in crime, but we can’t afford to give him [a sibling] for at least four years.”
Somehow, President Biden and Democrats have to address what is more than just bad economic vibes. There are systemic problems like zero days of mandatory maternity leave – zero!, increasingly expensive healthcare policies that cover less each year, investment companies buying up housing inventory which also drives up rent prices. Republicans don’t care. Hell, they’re all for making folks as miserable as possible. C’mon Democrats!
If Bill Maher needs to keep flogging his old jokes, let’s have repeats of the Orangutan clips. (3:05)
The guy is bonkers and getting worse each day. For whatever reason, disease, born stupid*, dropped on his head, kicked by a mule, the guy is nuttier than a jar of chunky peanut butter. The horse race the media is foisting on the world is good only to the five super rich guys who own it. NY Times completely ignores the facts, as presented by loonytune himself. Try to find an article about his “cognitive decline” in it. At least WashPo has a couple of scribbles in it, but sticks to the horse race bs.
The best thing has been the video of the guy and his wife where wife tells him to ef off and find a different car to ride in after her mother’s burial.
*he is one of the few I would be so crass about
A bit of fun that the youtube algo tossed at me today as I looked at music for tomorrows post.
That was nice.
It fed my head.
“The best thing has been the video of the guy and his wife where wife tells him to ef off and find a different car to ride in after her mother’s burial.”
BB, wonder if she said it in all 6 languages in which she’s supposed to be fluent. get a load of the body language in the twiXt.
HELP HELP, the nazi’s are coming! the nazi’s are coming!
well, maybe they just re-slithered from under some rocks.
Revealed: far-right figures try to create Christian nationalist ‘haven’ in Kentucky | Kentucky | The Guardian
back in the 79s a lot of hippie communes moved to KY, more for the cheap weed probably than for the cheap land. decades later many of those who remained assimilated or went native and are hard to spot as anything other than ken-tucks. after awhile the booze, betting and buds will surely get to the newbies.
Wow, there’s a very deceptive ad from ADF, asking for money for legal defense, etc. The Alliance Defending Freedom ad starts off sounding pro Title IX (scholarships furthering g education) and pro choice (medical professionals supporting women’s needs), but then they come out with the truth at the end. This is about trans athletes. ADF is a hate group.
I found it interesting that Barron has dual citizenship. Why would his MAGA daddy who was a POTUS and wants to be, again and forever, want his kid not to be 100% American on paper? What is he being groomed for?
Stefanik pushes back on reports Trump mixed up Haley, Pelosi | The Hill
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4358286-ufo-whistleblower-doubles-down-on-claims-this-is-a-nightmare-for-me/
“Former intelligence officer and UFO whistleblower David Grusch said he’s been living a nightmare since making his testimony public over the summer.
“Since I went public, certainly, this has been a nightmare for me,” he said in an interview Tuesday on NewsNation’s “Elizabeth Vargas Tonight.”
I wonder how much his speaker fee has increased?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12943153/ufo-whistleblower-secret-talk-wall-street-nyc.html
“UFO whistleblower held secret talk with ‘Wall St bigwigs’ and CIA officials in Manhattan – where he claimed US was in possession of 40ft Tardis-like craft that was ‘the size of a football field when you stepped inside’”
Is that why billionaires are building bunkers, or is to prevent being eaten?
Why the hell can’t she say something derogatory? That’s what it’s going to take at this point.
Stefanik is running for VP. Where in Dumbass’ blathering does he mention Nancy Pelosi?
What in the ever loving fuck is he talking about?
Ivy, i’m surprised she doesn’t start her sentences the ol’ southern-speak way like “bless his little heart…he just can’t help it that he’s unfit.”
her “we can’t have someone else that we question whether they’re mentally fit to do this. We can’t” sounds pretty derogatory to me. although it would have more oomph had she questioned his moral as well as his mental fitness to her velvet gloved slam.
Pat, being “lady-like” won’t save her now.
He doesn’t have Alzheimer’s. It’s I’zheimer’s. All about him.
lol humans can’t possess a TaRDiS, duh
…hates his father, identifies with his mother
Ivy – “I’zheimers” LOL
Humans do possess a TARDIS; a brain is small but holds multitudes.
Trump Unhinged Reveals Donny Is Satan = TURDIS
New SNL
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/20/europe/germany-protests-far-right-afd-migrant-deportation-plan-intl/index.html
René Springer took to his account on X to write: “We will return foreigners to their homeland. Millions of times. This is not a secret plan. It’s a promise. For more security. For more justice. To preserve our identity. For Germany.”
Sooo, this is what’s going on now, not the 1930s. Yikes!
“People are enraged by reports that senior members of the AfD discussed a ”master plan” for the mass deportation of German asylum-seekers and German citizens of foreign origin during a meeting late last year.”
“The gathering of AfD members, neo-Nazis and other far-right extremists took place at a lakeside hotel outside the city of Potsdam on November 25.”
“It did not come to light until January 10, when the meeting was revealed by the investigative journalism network Correctiv, sparking a wave of protests across Germany.”
“Huge crowds of protesters have descended on cities in Germany, as demonstrations calling for a ban on the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) gain momentum.”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/20/opinions/origin-movie-caste-racism-duvernay-wilkerson-magee/index.html
“In a week when would-be GOP presidential candidate Ron DeSantis told a CNN town hall, “The US is not a racist country,” and his rival Nikki Haley told Fox News, “We’ve never been a racist country,” the release of the movie “Origin” could not be more timely.”
“And underpinning that racism is what Wilkerson refers to as a caste system so effective at preserving the domination of White people over everyone else that the Nazis were inspired by it. Caste, Wilkerson says, is the system that creates subjugation.”
“What Wilkerson refers to in her book as “the false god of race” was invented by slave-owning European colonists as a convenient way of identifying at a glance who belonged to which caste — and who belonged to whom.”
“We follow Wilkerson’s travels as she dissects caste, comparing and connecting its devastating impact on those it places at the bottom of the social hierarchy: Dalits (previously known as “untouchables”) in India, Jews in Nazi Germany and Black people in the US.”
“We watch Isabel exploring Germany’s poignant memorials to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, discussing in one scene how successfully post-war Germany condemned its 12-year caste system to the past.”
Ummm, not so fast there; see previous post.
“It is harder to dehumanize a single individual that you have gotten the chance to know. Which is why people and groups who seek power and division do not bother with dehumanizing an individual. Better to attach a stigma, a taint of pollution to an entire group,” Wilkerson tells us in “Caste. This is why I believe empathy is the real key to overcoming inequality in the US — we must rise above the invisible constraints of caste and simply get to know one another.”
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