Phantom 309 nods approvingly, buys him a hot cup of joe.

We're figuring that God took Paul for a reason: to save the kids.

Then why did God make the bridge collapse at all? What a dick.

Seriously though, if this guy really did have that intention, then kudos to him.

wyltoknow: We're figuring that God took Paul for a reason: to save the kids.

Then why did God make the bridge collapse at all? What a dick.



This. This is part of why I am an atheist.

Seriously though, if this guy really did have that intention, then kudos to him.
Seconded.

+1 for proper use of HERO tag.

Total badass!

- R

Sadly, we will never know.
It gives his family comfort to believe this.

We don't know why he did it.

If it helps his family get over his death, I'm not going to argue it with them :)

Theology aside, this strikes me as a highly ethical act. I hope it's true, and, if so, I hope he's celebrated for it and I'm sorry for the loss.

Nine people have been confirmed dead so far as the result of the Interstate 35W bridge collapse. Among those was Taystee truck driver Paul Eickstadt.

Eickstadt's semi-truck caught fire shortly after the bridge collapsed. The 51-year-old Mounds View, Minn. man was driving a new route on his way to Mason City, Iowa.

Am I the only one?

/carbeque, anyone?
//baaad, I know

Risking his life? Check. To save the 62 lives of others? Roger that. Who are not related to him in any way? You betcha. Sounds like a hero to me, folks

There. Improved.

SchlingFo:

We don't know why he did it.

If it helps his family get over his death, I'm not going to argue it with them :)

This

FormlessOne:

Theology aside, this strikes me as a highly ethical act. I hope it's true, and, if so, I hope he's celebrated for it and I'm sorry for the loss.


And this

DRFS Rich:

Total badass!

- R


and some of this

brisken

That pic is so wrong...and it makes me laugh every time

Fletch F. Fletch: Nine people have been confirmed dead so far as the result of the Interstate 35W bridge collapse. Among those was Taystee truck driver Paul Eickstadt.

Eickstadt's semi-truck caught fire shortly after the bridge collapsed. The 51-year-old Mounds View, Minn. man was driving a new route on his way to Mason City, Iowa.

Am I the only one?

/carbeque, anyone?
//baaad, I know

I totally missed that, and I laughed when you pointed it out. +1!

\Already going to hell, why fight it

anybody seen a </b> around here?

My guess? Violent attempt to pull a Uie and crap his pants at the same time, with success on only one of them. I'm all for people being heros, but there are limits. "We think he was trying to shield the kids". From WHAT!?!? GRAVITY!? It's a farking collapsing bridge. The sight of their impending doom?

Whatever his reasons, if his desperate actions were what kept the bus from going over the edge, he's a hero. Good enough for me, just don't make a little Mars Attacks! style shrine.

If God took Paul for a reason, then Paul was a puppet dancing to God's strings. Last time I checked The Bible, neither the OT God or the warmer, fuzzier NT God didn't work that way.

If Paul did this, he deserves all the credit for putting his life at a lower priority than a busload of kids.

Heroes die. Lawyers, politicans, and the other vermin seem to live forever.

MonkeyBoy666: didn't worked that way.

Stupid double negatives.

LowbrowDeluxe: My guess? Violent attempt to pull a Uie and crap his pants at the same time, with success on only one of them. I'm all for people being heros, but there are limits. "We think he was trying to shield the kids". From WHAT!?!? GRAVITY!? It's a farking collapsing bridge. The sight of their impending doom?

I'm totally with you. A collapsing bridge feels like an earthquake (as survivors testified) so why would this guy feel compelled to cut off a school bus? The entire bridge was probably thrown into chaos. The whole thing just seems unlikely.

Of course if he somehow did try to save kids, good for him.

oh_noes111: Heroes die. Lawyers, politicans, and the other vermin seem to live forever.

So what you're saying is... bevets is immortal?


/Hope to see bevets and MacLeod battle

He might have been on trucker speed and thought the school bus was a giant twinkie.

/truckers love twinkies
//and moon pies

verbaltoxin: Ok ok, can we lay off the God stuff for just a bit? I think the important point here was selfless sacrifice.

/Just like Jesus did
//FOR YOOOOUUUUU
//holy slashies!!

This git speaks truth!

This seems like wishful thinking to me, but people have been known to reflexively take actions to protect others in crisis situations. I just don't see how in that split second of time he would've figured that swerving towards the bus would somehow save it.

But yeah, I'm not going to show up at the funeral with charts and equations showing why he really isn't a hero after all.

Mmm...yummy trollfood.

"We're figuring that God took Paul for a reason: to save the kids."

Gotta love that... Even when some poor bastard dies while doing a good deed, the crucifix-junkies steal his thunder and give the credit to their invisible bogeyman in the sky.

It's like that bank robbery a few years ago, when a bunch of employees and customers got killed, and a stray bullet went through the walls of a Burger King next door, almost hitting a worker there. The burger flipper was interviewed, and she was all "Aaaaaah laaawdy, da laaawd suh done look oooout fer me, he be holdin' his haaand ovah me, aaah lawdy, praise be!" like the omnipotent, omniscient magic man had a special plan for her -- but the folks in the bank -- aw fark'em...

Xtian logic. Gotta love it.

We're figuring that God took Paul for a reason: to save the kids.

Because god requires a snackrifice every now and again?

I am impressed and humbled.

Voxton: "We're figuring that God took Paul for a reason: to save the kids."

Gotta love that... Even when some poor dies while doing a good deed, the crucifix-junkies steal his thunder and give the credit to their invisible bogeyman in the sky.

It's like that bank robbery a few years ago, when a bunch of employees and customers got killed, and a stray bullet went through the walls of a Burger King next door, almost hitting a worker there. The burger flipper was interviewed, and she was all "Aaaaaah laaawdy, da laaawd suh done look oooout fer me, he be holdin' his haaand ovah me, aaah lawdy, praise be!" like the omnipotent, omniscient magic man had a special plan for her -- but the folks in the bank -- aw fark'em...

Xtian logic. Gotta love it.

Yes. It was a pure evolutionary reflex, completely unrelated to any sense of compassion or something greater than himself.

RIP Hero. Great is your reward in Heaven.

No greater love that a man lay down his life for his friends.

AXESMI:
No greater love that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Did you just call him a kiddie-diddler?

nah, let the liberals talk. they are their own worst enemy.
and if this guy actually did swerve to protect the school bus, not probable but possible imho, then he is indeed a hero. be he a socialist or conservative.

Why did God let it happen? Why does God let any bad things happen at all?

Why do parents kick their kids' asses out of the house? You gotta go out and grow up on your own at some point. If He didn't, well... imagine 5 billion Paris Hiltons running around the planet just waiting to hit heaven's gates. Nightmarish?

I imagine when we get to His door, He'd rather have us be interesting to hang out with for the rest of eternity rather than trillions of annoying little "life is grand" biatches who all still need their hands held to take a piss.


Regardless, if there is a God, it's His playground you self-centered little whiny biatches.

His rules, not yours. Suck it up and deal with it. I shiat you not, if I were wearing the big slippers humanity would be much more appreciative of the deal they have now with just being left alone.

King Something: Then why did God make the bridge collapse at all? What a dick.

I'm pretty sure it was a combination of gravity and poor engineering that lead to the collapse. Not some invisible sky wizard.

Approves.

I don't mean to be a jerk, but, seriously, what if the guy was just swerving right to avoid falling into the gaping chasm?

I mean, if it were me, I'd probably slam on the brakes and turn to the right. This story doesn't need a hero element. Can we finally get past that?

i was moved by TFA, then i read all y'all's flaming against god and stuff and got grumpy again.

all you flamers can suck it.

TheyCallThisWork: I don't mean to be a jerk, but, seriously, what if the guy was just swerving right to avoid falling into the gaping chasm?

I mean, if it were me, I'd probably slam on the brakes and turn to the right. This story doesn't need a hero element. Can we finally get past that?

I totally agree, my thoughts exactly.

Here you go kid,here's your luckiest boy in america award.

meh, it happened.

Whether

A) he deliberately swerved to block the kiddies from dying,
B) he sneezed to the side to avoid splattering his window and the kids thought he was looking at them as he honked his horn as they sometimes do

is beside the point. They're alive because he got in the way.

now resume the flaming which Fark seems to be more famous for than Drew