Re: <OTNews> Woman Uses Breast Milk To Put Out Burning Amputee Set On Fire By Teens

T.U.T. v 5.0 wrote:
> News Edition: 05/21/2005
>
> A real-life supermom used a bottle of breast milk to douse an
amputee
> yesterday after his wheelchair was set ablaze by punks on a Staten
> Island bus, cops said.
> The nursing mother's fast actions helped save Vietnam vet Francis
> Abrams, 57, from becoming a human torch, and stopped the fire from
> engulfing the S-54 bus, police and the victim said.
>
> "It was put out with breast milk," said a police source, who was awed
> by the bizarre incident that happened just after 11 a.m.
>
> Abrams, who lost his left leg in Vietnam, said he was minding his own
> business as he rode the city bus to the Staten Island Mall to buy a
> video of "The Exorcist."
>
> Just after he boarded the bus, three teens playing hooky from
> Tottenville High School pulled a cruel prank, cops said.
>
> "They set my chair on fire," an angry Abrams said last night,
refusing
> to allow photographers to take pictures of his face. "They thought it
> was a joke."
>
> Cops said the teens used a cigarette lighter to ignite a plastic bag
> hanging from the back of Abrams' motorized wheelchair.
>
> The flames quickly engulfed the bag, containing the Greek classics
> "Odyssey" and "Iliad."
>
> As the fire spread to Abrams' jacket, he screamed: "Water!"
>
> As her baby looked on, the new mom and a friend sprang into the
action,
> dousing the fire with a freshly pumped bottle of breast milk and
> another bottle of water, authorities said.
>
> The back of Abrams' wheelchair was slightly melted by the fire, but
he
> was not harmed thanks to the nursing mother.
>
> "I said, 'Thank you,'" Abrams said.
>
> When bus driver Deborah Thompson spotted the fire, she wheeled the
bus
> to a stop at Crossfield Ave. and Arthur Kill Road in Greenridge,
> officials said.
>
> But as she called 911, the three fire-starters bolted.
>
> Cops from the 123rd Precinct got a detailed description of the
suspects
> from Thompson and Abrams and quickly found the pranksters.
>
> The names of the suspects were not released because of their ages.
All
> of them are 15. They were charged with arson, criminal mischief and
> reckless endangerment, authorities said.
>
> Asked about the fire being extinguished with breast milk, Abrams
> bristled, "I don't care. It doesn't bother me."
>
> Courtesy of: NYDailyNews
>
>
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