Winnipeg man shot 10 times protecting students gets Star of Courage

[Steve28]

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/winnipe...rage-1.3137164

Gov. Gen. David Johnston awarded Winnipeg native Lester Lehmann a Star of Courage on Friday, for his selfless actions in protecting 26 students from armed gunmen.

The students, all teenagers from Ste. Anne, Man., were visiting the Dominican Republic. Lehmann was looking after the apartments where the students were staying.

Lehmann: Two intruders broke in at about one o’clock in the morning. I didn’t really realize they were there until I turned around and they both had guns pointed at me, and I thought my best chance was to just act crazy, to go crazy. I didn’t think they would shoot at me because I was unarmed.

After two or three minutes they shot several times and then they cornered me in my bedroom and basically stomped me on the ground and knocked me out -- or what they thought was knocked out. And then they left to hold up the students in the condos. I grabbed a baseball bat and went after them.

I guess I was just reacting. You don’t really get a chance to think and everything is going so quickly. The one person was just coming out of the condo as I came around the corner, and I was able to strike him. But the second person came out and ended up putting 10 shots into me. It didn’t take me long to realize that I was OK. The majority of the shots had just passed through me, and hadn’t hit anything. There was only four of them that did any amount of damage -- there was a couple in my knee and one that broke an arm bone. After he shot me he grabbed his unconscious buddy and dragged him off, so I was no longer in any danger.

Holy shit, who the fuck is this guy?

[Woods Devil]

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/winnipe...rage-1.3137164







Holy shit, who the fuck is this guy?

[gamgee]

The two in the knee would really bother me.

[HeavyHauler]

"I didn't think they would shoot at me, because I was unarmed."

[Ray Pureface]

Guy named Lester watching a bunch of kids...

[HeavyHauler]

Captain Canada is a faggot, he's been trying to usurp my throne for a long time now.

Fucking loser, I'm the King of Canada!

[Ray Pureface]

What were they shooting him with, a .25?

[Unclefred]

If he'd had an ulu instead of a bat the guy would have drug off his headless buddy and left a blood trail to follow.

[rover]

"It didn’t take me long to realize that I was OK. The majority of the shots had just passed through me, and hadn’t hit anything. There was only four of them that did any amount of damage -- there was a couple in my knee and one that broke an arm bone"

i want ant to buy this guy a drink. Whatever he wants, all he wants...

[Harry Henderson]

Full metal jacket saves lives.

[HeavyHauler]

I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee.

[Absolutely!]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...titches-up-leg
Man fights off shark, stitches up own leg, goes to the pub


New Zealander James Grant stabs predator with a knife to get free, swims ashore, sutures wounds and goes to pub for a beer

New Zealand doctor James Grant fought off a shark, then stitched his own wounds (actual shark not shown). Photograph: Martin Barraud/Getty Images

A junior doctor has recounted how he fended off a shark attack and stitched up his own wound on the beach before enjoying a pint of beer at a nearby pub.

James Grant was spearfishing with friends near Colac Bay at the base of New Zealand’s South Island on Saturday when he was attacked by what he believed was a sevengill shark.

The 24-year-old was in about 2 metres (6ft) of murky water when he felt a tug on his leg, which he initially thought was a friend playing a trick on him. "I looked behind to see who it was and got a bit of a shock," he told Radio New Zealand.

He didn't see the shark and had no idea how big it was, he said, adding that he thought it could have been about 20cm (8in) across the jaw. However, he felt no fear. "[I thought] bugger, now I have to try and get this thing off my leg," he said.


He already had a knife in his hand and stabbed at the shark. "I am not sure how effective it was. I guess it let go so something must have happened. [I] put a few nicks in it."
A sevengill shark. Photograph: José María Pérez Nuñez/Wikipedia/Flickr
He quickly made it on to rocks on the shore, where he took off the wetsuit – borrowed from a friend – and saw bites up to 5cm long.

Grant gave himself stitches using a first aid kit he kept in his vehicle for pig hunts. He and his friends then went to the Colac Bay Tavern, where he was given a bandage because he was dripping blood on the floor.

The stitching was finished off when he went to Invercargill hospital, where he was back at work on Monday.

“It would have been great if I had killed it because there was a fishing competition on at the Colac Bay Tavern,” Grant told Stuff.co.nz.

“I am pretty grateful to have my leg still,” he said. “When the stitches come out, I will be back in the water.”

[UnderTheStars]

That's hardcore. I'd like to think that adrenaline kicked in, and maybe deep-down most of us would muster these responses. But I doubt it.

[Unclefred]

I don't like swimming with the sharks, but I do sometimes in Mexico when they wander into the surf. There are occasional great white attacks here so I don't go out. Besides, it is cold.

[HeavyHauler]

I would have punched it in the face, that would have really fucked up its day!