🚨#BREAKING: A 17-year-old boy was just handed the KEY TO THE CITY of Tuscumbia, Alabama after he SAVED THE LIFE of a 76-year-old grandmother who drove 20 MILES with an active BRAIN BLEED...
...and remembers NONE of it.
His name is Johnson Thompson, 17, from Tuscumbia, Alabama.
A week earlier, Johnson flipped a lawn mower and got hurt and it just so happened that he couldn't sleep at night because of it.
So before 5am on June 30, he gave up on sleep and went to work early in his family's workshop.
That "accident" put him in the right spot at the exact right moment... because across the street, a car slowly rolled to a stop.
A 76-year-old woman named Fannie Garner stumbled out, disoriented, tugging at the locked door of a business, asking where the nearest emergency room was.
She said she'd just WALK there, it was a mile and a half away.
Johnson wasn't having it.
He got her a chair, sat her down, and called 911, even after she said no ambulance, he refused to leave her and stayed with her until it arrived.
At the hospital, doctors found an ACTIVE BRAIN BLEED.
She was airlifted to Birmingham for emergency treatment and hospital officials say she likely wouldn't have survived if Johnson wouldn't have called an ambulance and helped.
Fannie had driven 15-20 miles from Cherokee to Tuscumbia in that condition and she remembers NONE of it.
"Nothing but God," she says.
The next day, her family tracked Johnson down just to thank him.
Her sister retraced the route, found the workshop, found the boy.
Their words for him: "Angel. Hero."
Now the two families are bonded for life. Fannie is already planning to be at his graduation next year!
Senator Tuberville honored him publicly.
And on July 20, the Tuscumbia City Council handed this 17-year-old a KEY TO THE CITY.
A teenager's sleepless night saved a grandmother's life, folks.
Some people call that a coincidence, but Fannie Garner calls it God.
THIS IS THE AMERICA I KNOW!!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
A guy named Plumes goes to national parks, zoos etc and sings to animals as he plays his guitar.
The wolf here is called Dirvus, and he's the last remaining of his pack. The keepers said he had been very lonely and withdrawn and hasn't howled in a long time. Until now 🥹🥰
@plumesofficiel
Did you know that in Romania, trucks loaded with beehives are rented out to flower growers?
These massive rigs become mobile "bee hotels," buzzing with thousands of bees that pollinate fields of flowers and crops.
Sharing her speech with the painting that was inspired by the protests in the streets of her country. It is acrylic on canvas with a wooden frame. 16x20
I want to ask the students screaming “Death to America”, do you have any idea what happens when American values die?
Because I do.
My family fled Iran, a country where freedom died. You don’t know what you have until it’s gone.
You think America is oppressive because you have never experienced real oppression.
You think silence is violence because you’ve never been silenced.
You think words are dangerous because you have never watched a government drag someone away for speaking them.
You think capitalism is evil because you have never stood in a bread line.
You think borders are immoral because you have never had to flee across one.
You think revolution is romantic because you have never had a revolution take everything from you.
I have.
And that’s why I refuse to be quiet.
My sister had the best idea. She brought a linen shirt and went around letting people paint it. We gave away painting opportunities to young art lovers and kicked off the day with a local senior painting. It was hot but a lot of fun!
Shaq caught wind of this 7-foot-3 kid in Kemah, Texas who powered through the police academy only to fall one point short on the state exam. His whole dream of becoming an officer looked like it was slipping away right there.
Then Shaq jumped in and covered the guy’s living expenses for the next five months so he wouldn’t have to juggle a second job and could zero in on passing that test. Because of that extra push, Jordan Wilmore got back in, nailed it, and just got sworn in as a Kemah police officer.
SCOTUS just dropped the hammer: 6-3 ruling upholding bans on biological BOYS in GIRLS' sports!
Biology isn't bigotry. It's reality. No more men stealing scholarships, records, and podiums from our daughters.
Title IX was meant to protect women, not erase them.
Protect our girls. Fight like hell for what's right.