A champion rope jumper from Westfield, Indiana, used his jump ropes to save a drowning man from a frozen pond after the man fell in trying to save his dog. The dog was chasing geese on the semi-frozen pond when it broke through into the water. His 18-year-old owner went after it, but he fell in. A young boy nearby heard the yelling and ran to get his father, David Fisher, who is a championship jump roper. He is a world record-holder for jump-roping while sitting down. I don’t know what that means. Mr. Fisher said he instinctively went right for his bag of jump ropes and pulled out the double-Dutch ropes, tossed an end to the young man in the water, and pulled him and his dog out of the pond.
* Good thing he’s a jump roper and not, like, a weight lifter.
* As he pulled him out, Mr. Fisher kept going, “Mabel, Mabel, set the table / Do it as fast as you are able /
Don’t forget the SALT-PEPPER-KETCHUP-MUSTARD-SALT-PEPPER-KETCHUP-MUSTARD…”
* Of course, the whole time, the geese were doing that honking that sounds like laughing. Geese are jerks.
* The takeaway: Westfield, Indiana needs some leash laws.