College Student Helps Rescue Great White Victim, Credits Fraternity For Teaching Him The Skills
As a swimmer held his side after a great white shark bit him and the masses in the water bolted toward the shore, California college student Justin Hoot ran toward the water to help.
Described as always being there when his good friends need him, Hoot helped evacuate the beach and then paddled a surfboard into the water so that lifeguards could load the victim onto it. He later told the press he learned to work as a team to achieve a goal as a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity.
“I didn’t really think about getting hurt myself,” Hoot said in an interview. “I was just worried about the worse condition of other people.”
“Let George do it!” was a saying engrained in my head during pledging, probably while drunk and in the push-up position, and it spoke, in an ironic sense, to the idea that you can’t wait for others to do what you can do yourself. Of course, at the time, we contorted it into trying to convince our pledge brothers to do the tasks assigned to us instead, but Justin Hoot took the concept and helped save a man’s life with it.
“I thought, ‘I just can’t watch it happen,’ ” he told the press. “ ‘If people are running out of the water and trying to take care of themselves, who’s going to take care of the guy?’ ”
You’re a hero, Hooters. Drinks are on me.
[via Lehigh Valley Live]
Well done, In TKP brother.
10 years ago at 10:48 amIf only we had a pledge George… He’d be so fucked.
10 years ago at 10:49 amIt looks like he’s doing fine without it
10 years ago at 11:13 amIt’s people like you who give Greeks a bad rep.
10 years ago at 11:25 amNo I think it’s you.
10 years ago at 1:10 pmA member of Greek Life saves the day, yet again. Well done.
10 years ago at 10:57 amThis guy deserves nudes from hot piece.
10 years ago at 11:13 amAs long as he shares them with the rest of us
10 years ago at 11:38 amDid you save a man today? No? Ok then fuck off kid.
10 years ago at 1:39 pmNo, but he did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night. That all you need to gets pics from Lucky Jo.
10 years ago at 1:50 pmLooking for handout. NF.
10 years ago at 7:12 pmYeah… But he’s still from California.
10 years ago at 11:28 amYet negative greek life stories somehow always get more attention.
10 years ago at 12:39 pmNationally, that is
10 years ago at 12:41 pmWe all thought you meant internationally.
10 years ago at 11:13 pmWay to go, Brother Hoot. Damn proud to be a Zete.
10 years ago at 12:44 pmMy fraternity taught me a lot of valuable lessons, but nothing quite this badass. Well done, sir.
10 years ago at 12:56 pmthis guy now gets to use one of the best pick up lines ever….”yeah, i saved a dude from a great white shark…no big deal.”
10 years ago at 1:20 pmIf this guy’s pledge name wasn’t hooters, someone made a huge mistake
10 years ago at 2:31 pm