The Ohio man saved one four-year-old boy’s life by chance saying ‘I was like, ‘Oh God.’ The first thing I gotta do, first instinct, is protect the kid, jump in front of it.’
A Cleveland hockey game-goer who saved a 4-year-old boy from a speeding airborne hockey puck in a split-second move has been reunited with the mum and son thanks to social media.
Nasir Davis was watching a Cleveland Monsters match with his mum and her best friend when the puck went rogue and hurtled at full speed toward the 4-year-old’s head before Andrew Podolak deflected it. Asia Davis, 33, Nasir’s mom, said in a post on TikTok: “This puck comes out of heaven, straight toward my son’s head. If you know anything about a hockey puck, it’s more dense than a baseball. This dude literally saved my son’s life.”
Nasir’s mum took to social media to try and track down her son’s rescuer, saying the “really, really close call” was of “divine intervention” before the TikTok went viral and her son’s saviour was found. In the video the 33-year-old recalled the exchange at the time of the near-tragedy: “He was like, ‘I was meant to be here. And he was. You cannot tell me God is not real.”
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Mr Podolak said his friends showed him the viral TikTok, and he reached out to Ms Davis and Nasir. Mr Podolak told WOIO: “It was coming up over the glass, and I just saw it was wobbling and whatnot. I was like, ‘Oh God.’ The first thing I gotta do, first instinct, is protect the kid, jump in front of it.”
Ms Davis said to Mr Podolak in an interview with NBC News: “You’re a really special person and I just hope that you never go a day in your life without knowing that. I don’t think I looked up until the puck was, like, already like past the glass and past the audience.
“And next thing I know, it was just screaming and I…
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