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People Are Awesome: This Guy Scuba Dived Into the Tsunami to Rescue His Wife and Mother
No
doubt many stories of heroism in the face of Japan's recent tsunami
will emerge in the upcoming weeks—one is happening in the Fukushima
Daiichi plant as I write this, in fact—but the latest is so beautiful
and fantastical that it seems primed for a Hollywood movie.
Meet
Hideaki Akaiwa, 43. Startled at work by the now infamous earthquake and
tsunami that shook and overtook Japan on March 11, Akaiwa rushed to high
ground and immediately called his wife of two decades. When she didn't
answer, Akaiwa ignored friends' pleas to wait for a military rescue,
instead rummaging up some scuba gear and diving into the dark, cold,
debris-filled tsunami. Hundreds of yards of swimming later, Akaiwa found
his wife struggling against the 10-foot current that had overtaken the
couple's Ishinomaki home.
Once he'd gotten his wife to safety,
Akaiwa suffered for four days with worry for his elderly mother. When
she didn't turn up at any of the official evacuation centers, Akaiwa
dove once again into the filthy, neck-high waters and swam to her
neighborhood, determined to track her down. After some searching, Akaiwa
found her, scared and alone, on the second floor of neighbor's house.
"She was very much panicked because she was trapped with all this water
around," he told the Los Angeles Times. "I didn't know where she was. It
was such a relief to find her."
With his family accounted for,
Akaiwa hasn't rested on his laurels. Rather, he's spent the past two
weeks heading into Ishinomaki in search of other trapped survivors.
Armed with a backpack, a flashlight, a Swiss Army knife, and some water,
he rides his bike around the wreckage and makes his own destiny.
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The Perfect Worker
1 Bob Smith, my assistant programmer, can always be found
2 hard at work in his cubicle. Bob works independently, without
3 wasting company time talking to colleagues. Bob never
4 thinks twice about assisting fellow employees, and he always
5 finishes given assignments on time. Often he takes extended
6 measures to complete his work, sometimes skipping coffee
7 breaks. Bob is a dedicated individual who has absolutely no
8 vanity in spite of his high accomplishments and profound
9 knowledge in his field. I firmly believe that Bob can be
10 classed as a high-caliber employee, the type which cannot be
11 dispensed with. Consequently, I duly recommend that Bob be
12 promoted to executive management, and a proposal will be
13 executed as soon as possible.
Addendum:
That idiot was standing over my shoulder while I wrote the report
sent to you earlier today. Kindly re-read only the odd numbered
lines.
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*you and your bestfriend can say one word, and crack up.
*you hate when one string of you're hoodie is longer than the other.
*you push those little buttons on the lids of fast-food drinks.
*you laugh when people get hurt, then stop when you realize it's serious.
*you hate it when parents get serious about something funny you tell them.
*you hate when you tell a guy to shut up and they copy you in a higher voice.
*you pretend to sleep when your parents come in.
*you text the person next to you things that you can't say out loud.
*you're always tired no matter how much sleep you get.
*if someone asks the time and you don't have a watch you look at your wrist anyway
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