We sometimes have this dilemma in this line of work.
We’re riding by in the middle of gathering news in a storm, albeit rain, snow, or sleet.
We pass by a driver either broke down or stuck on the road.
Quite honestly, (and we love all you guys but…) if we’re under a tight deadline, we just can’t stop and help.
I can think of a few times I’ve actually called police or a state trooper to help a stranded motorist because we just couldn’t do it.
But today near Martinsville was different.
Photographer Mike Secrest and I passed a woman stuck in the snow in the Collinsville area.
Should we stop to help?
Hey it’s only 2:10 pm. We’re in the 6 o’clock show. Why not?
We get there and tell her to put in reverse.
We push.
Her nice Cadillac goes nowhere.
By this time a guy in a Redskins sweatshirt and another Good Samaritan in a Fieldale-Collinsville Rescue Squad shirt drive up.
“Of course you can help” I tell them.
Fieldale-Collinsville Rescue Squad guy gets a shovel and tries to dig out her rear-passenger side tire.
Doesn’t work.
Redskins guy pulls out a chain.
This will do the trick.
By that time another nice guy in a light blue and gray sweatshirt pulls up to help.
So Secrest and I were the first on the scene of a truly terrific news story…
Five guys taking time to help others.
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