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Good neighbors.(The Goodness Of America)
On the morning of April 18, Charlie Pagel of South St. Paul, Minnesota, began changing the shock absorbers on his mid-size SUV. He had safely worked on cars at home on numerous other occasions, and as he jacked up the vehicle and wriggled beneath it, his wife, Carol, stood nearby to render assistance. This time, however, Mr. Pagel made a critical mistake by neglecting to block the front wheels before jacking up the car. Moments later the jack gave way and the SUV fell, trapping him beneath and rendering him barely able to breathe.
Mrs. Pagel screamed for help while struggling to reposition the jack and raise the car. Her daughter heard the screams and called 911. A neighbor, Denny Spreeman, also heard the cries for help and, though himself a heart attack and open-heart surgery survivor, sprinted across the street to help. When he and Mrs. Pagel still could not budge the bumper that trapped Mr. Pagel's head, Spreeman ran back to his home to retrieve another jack. He and Mrs. Pagel were joined in the rescue effort by another neighbor, Randy Pfuhl, and the trio was soon able to remove Mr. Pagel from beneath the SUV. "We had him out and secured by the time the cops came," Spreeman recalls. Though suffering from what turned out to be a relatively minor case of traumatic asphyxiation, Mr. Pagel quickly recovered.
Charlie Pagel described himself as "a very lucky guy" to a reporter for the Sun Newspapers, which publishes many weekly newspapers in the Minneapolis and St. Paul suburbs. Mr. Pagel said that the combined actions of his wife and neighbors were literally the difference between life and death for him. He was kept overnight at St. Paul's Regions Hospital, but ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Good neighbors.(The Goodness Of America)