Rescue

If you'd like more bad news today (most of us have had enough bad news this year), you'll have to get it somewhere else - because this post is good news. Good news still happens! It just doesn't get much press.

Five high school freshmen were together outside in Middleton, N.J., when they heard screaming: a dad shouting "Hop off! Hop off!" His 8-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son were flying down a hill on an innertube, backward. 

The kids hit an ice patch, shot over a snow bank, and slid into a pond. Kieran Foley (14) jumped in the shallow, freezing water. His four friends formed a chain to pass the boy to the shore and then did the same for the girl. Kieran lost his boots and finished the rescue barefooted.

The dad gave his pants and boots to Kieran, but that's all the boys would take. No money. 

The mom said, “In this day and age when kids don’t really care and all they do is take their phones out and videotape when something happens, these kids did not even hesitate. I just wanted to call their parents and say, ‘you raised some really great kids.'”

from News12, The Stream