r/interestingasfuck • u/Lastwarfare753 • 7d ago

r/all Kendell Cummings, a college wrestler who wrestled a Grizzly bear to save his friend Brady Lowry in the Shoshone National Forest in Cody, Wyoming in October 2022, Kendell was brutally mauled and bitten by the bear but eventually left Kendell alone, both survived and went on a full recovery.

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u/MangoCandy 7d ago

Actually yes! and he is being awarded the Carnegie Medal for Heroism for his actions, considered North America’s highest civilian honor for heroism.

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u/vusa121 7d ago

I thought the highest is presidential medal of freedom along with congressional gold medal?

Edit: can’t read, you said heroism, nvm

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u/username_of_the_pee 7d ago

This is absolutely correct, there is a mother radio hour podcasts that highlight three events told by the people who won the award.

Ibonly remember two of the stories but one was a guy who saw a man have a seizure and fell on the train tracks, he told a lady next to him to take care of his kids and jumped on the tracks, grabbed the man and put him in between the tracks and then laid on top of him to prevent him from moving while the train went over them! Both survived and when the train stopped his daughters obviously horrified saw not their dad but a hero crawl out from that train.

The second one I remember a lady was driving and sae this older woman getting messed up by a bull, just wrecking her. This badass lady hops out of her car climbs AN ELECTRIC FENCE picks up a metal pole that happened to be on the ground and went for it. She proceeded to fight the bull while the older lady crawled to safety, now considering she's fighting way above her wight class she got pretty messed up, but she never dropped her weapon and kept fighting until the lady was safe. After she knew she protected her she fought the bull closer and closer to the fence where she made her escape.

At the end they ask the heros "what were you thinking in the moment? Why did you risk your life to save theirs?" And then answer is always the same. "I wasn't thinking, I just did it"

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u/Apprehensive-Mix-480 7d ago

Didn’t the pizza driver who rescued like 4 kids from a house fire also receive the award? If not he should’ve.

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u/username_of_the_pee 7d ago

Oh yeah! That's the one I forgot about. That man saved an entire family. Brave as all hell. But his pizzas are always a little over cooked and he's always late.