Joseph Keppard, Army veteran, saving the world
SF Gate reports that a Nissan Sentra driver was speeding along Monarch Bay Drive when the driver hit the curb which sent the car upside down into the water. 53-year-old Joseph Keppard, a ten-year Army veteran, was meditating nearby when he saw the accident occur. He stripped of his shoes and dove into the water and pulled the pair out of the water;
“In my opinion, looking at the tides and the currents and how deep the water was, they easily saved those teens’ lives,” said San Leandro police Lt. Ted Henderson.
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Keppard, who is 6 feet 4, said the car landed in deep water. He spent several minutes in the bay, searching in the dark for the teenagers and then pulling them out. At one point, others on the scene said there was a third person in the car, so Keppard dove down into the wreckage feeling in the darkness for another body.
“The water was up to my eyes, and you could feel the current pulling,” said Keppard, who served a decade in the Army. “The whitecaps were going pretty good. I didn’t have time to think about myself. I just wanted to get those guys out of there.”
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Keppard, who frequently works out and meditates at the marina, said that the people he rescued didn’t thank him, but he didn’t mind.
“I wasn’t even focused on any of that — it was more so about the lives,” he said. “They were kids — I’m tired of hearing about kids dying. Me being a minister, I do too many funerals.”
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Well done!
brainwashed teenyboppers…couldn’t even thank him? thats because it was owed to them, just ask them, they just floated there under water until Uncle Same came and saved them…I mean, thats what they are taught in school!!
BZ!
No doubt the good minister was inspired by his bible to do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
Nicely done Mr. Keppard and I whole heartedly agree that I too am tired of hearing about young people dying…they make far too many fatal mistakes and there is nothing to be done to repair those once they are made. In this case Mr. Keppard kept a fatal mistake from completion with his timely interference in the form of selfless aid.
^^^ +100 ^^^
I might be a heathen, but I’m not an ignorant heathen…I read the important works…
Nicely done, Mr. Sheppard. Nicely done.
“Kepprd” = seriously, not NEARLY enough caffeine yet.
Slow applause, standing. Well done Sir.
And that is two less that he will have to perform.
Good job Trooper.
HOO—AH !!!
Well done sir, damned well done.
HOOOOOAH !!!!!!
Well done