NZ latest – Highlanders skipper a hero
28 Jun 2011
Keo.co.za brings you news from New Zealand’s Super Rugby franchises.
Highlanders skipper a hero – Jamie Mackintosh has saved a woman from choking in a restaurant by applying the Heimlich manoeuvre.
Wendy Knight was dining at Dunedin’s Lone Star restaurant when a piece of meat got stuck in her throat. Seeing that Knight was choking, Mackintosh rushed to her aid and saved her life. Unfortunately the 128kg prop cracked one of Knight’s ribs in an effort to expel the piece of meat.
‘I thought I was going to die … I really did,’ the 44-year-old said. ‘He probably saved my life. I didn’t know know who it was. I didn’t know where they came from. I didn’t even get a chance to say thanks.’
Mackintosh had been dining with Highlanders team-mates Tony Brown, Jimmy Cowan, Aaron Smith and Jarrad Hoeata when he saw Knight was in trouble.
‘We asked if she was OK and seeing she couldn’t talk, I got in behind her and it was like a great big grizzly bear mauling some kind of small animal,’ he said. ‘I obviously buggered it up if I cracked her rib.’
12 Comments
28 Jun 2011, 07:41 am
and not a bad prop either!
28 Jun 2011, 08:35 am
Finally a kiwi with a cure for choking – give this man a Bells.
Graham Henry make him an assistant coach for the RWC he will work miracles in the change room.
28 Jun 2011, 08:41 am
thats classic, well done to him. i’ve always wanted to do the heimlich, always. but of course he did break her rib, which is a bit kuk .
28 Jun 2011, 08:52 am
Well done, Jamie.
Cracked ribs can happen quite easily while performing the Heimlich maneuver or cardio-pulmonary resuscitation.
There have even been cases in the United States of people suing their saviours after suffering cracked ribs from CPR!
Thankfully even the over-litigious Yanks have “Good Samaritan Laws” in most states, that basically say it’s better to “do something than nothing”, i.e. you can only sue for an injury sustained while somebody administers medical aid at the scene of an accident or an emergency if the person has committed gross negligence.
What has the world come to where you have to be careful when saving someone’s life since you might end up getting sued by that person afterwards?
28 Jun 2011, 09:12 am
@Roar in Soccer City(RL)-2: Very good!
28 Jun 2011, 09:36 am
Hmmm…Guess he’s not completely evil.
But this act only partly balances the scales for him illegally knocking the ball out of Fourie du Preez’s hands as the Bulls were about to score in the 80th minute this year.
How can such blatant dishonesty and bad sportsmanship coexist with the ability to do minor good deeds?
I guess human beings are complex indeed.
28 Jun 2011, 09:54 am
@Tacitus(Deucalion)-6:
What a piece of work is a man! How noble in
Reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving
how express and admirable! In action how like an Angel!
in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the
world! the paragon of animals! and yet to me, what is
this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me; no,
nor Woman neither; though by your smiling you seeme
to say so…
28 Jun 2011, 11:09 am
@Tacitus(Deucalion)-6:
go home, you lost, loser.
Bulls won in 2010 with 80+% SA referees. And they beat the Crusaders in that final Round match with blatant ‘disrespect for the Laws’ (I think Safas have another word for that).
28 Jun 2011, 11:10 am
@Tacitus(Deucalion)-6:
It is, however, a relief to know you were watching tho Tacitus. We presumed you had merely ‘gone to France’ at that stage of the season.
28 Jun 2011, 12:00 pm
@Roar in Soccer City(RL)-2: One of the best I’ve read on this blog!
28 Jun 2011, 12:06 pm
@Tacitus(Deucalion)-6: yep, perhaps you could take your soap box, plant it firmly in front of bakkies and repeaty what youve just sprouted here..
actually, its funny to see you on this website, didnt the bulls crash almost two weeks ago? and youre still blogging?
seems your kahonas have finally dropped, welcome to manhood…
28 Jun 2011, 15:11 pm
This woman would kill for a plate of spare ribs!!
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