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Brave teen fights off pit bull.(Thomas Moehler saves Marky Stanfield from a pit bull)(Brief article)
Thomas "T.J." Moehler, a 16-year-old junior at Central Regional High School in Bayville, New Jersey, was in his home on April 29, 2005, when he heard a ruckus outside. The noise turned out to be coming from 10-year-old Marky Stanfield, a neighbor boy who was fleeing on a bike away from a 75-pound pit bull. Seeking safety, Stanfield turned into Moehler's driveway. It was there that the dog caught him. Running outside, Moehler saw the dog biting Stanfield on the legs and feet.
"It was a pretty big pit bull," T.J. recently told the Asbury Park Press. "I was pretty scared." True heroism, however, is not the absence of fear, but action in the face of fear.
And T.J. had good cause to be apprehensive. Not only was the powerfully ...
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