‘I’ve got the dumbbell’: Woman rescued at Florida intersection meets good Samaritans who helped her

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. – With the orange dumbbell in hand, the girl who grew to become unconscious whereas behind the wheel in Florida earlier in Might – prompting a bunch of fine Samaritans to hurry to her assist, and captured on video that shortly went viral – thanked each one in every of them for coming to her rescue.

“I’ve obtained the dumbbell,” mentioned Laurie Rabyor, to laughs from these attending the press convention (we’ll clarify that in a number of).

“I simply wish to thank each single one in every of you. You had been wonderful. I do not bear in mind any of it,” she mentioned. “Simply to know {that a} group of individuals of all completely different nationalities and religions – no person considered something like that they usually all simply got here collectively to assist little previous girl me – I respect it so a lot you do not even know.”

“My kids love you, they simply love you for serving to their mother,” she mentioned.

The Boynton Seashore Police Division shared the video on its social media web page earlier this week hoping to establish the individuals who helped – and it shortly went viral. 

Watch the preliminary video beneath.

The video confirmed Rabyor’s car slowly cross lanes and enter the intersection, whereas a coworker is seen working via the intersection yelling and waving at different automobiles. Quickly, a handful of individuals get out of their automobiles to try to assist.

One man makes an attempt to punch the window, which does not work the primary time. Then a girl seems to get an orange dumbbell from her car, which is used to efficiently smash the rear window, police mentioned. That allowed one other man to climb via the window and put the car in park.

Ultimately, the car was moved to an area comfort retailer the place paramedics had been known as. Rabyor is OK and nicely now.

A number of of the individuals who spoke mentioned they had been shocked by the popularity and mentioned they’d have carried out what anybody else in that scenario would have carried out to assist.

“The second I noticed this younger girl working throughout the road behind a automobile yelling, ‘she’s unconscious, she’s unconscious,’ there was little doubt in my thoughts that I wanted to do one thing. So I simply put my automobile in  park after which took off working, mentioned Military Employees Sgt. Juan Chavez Jr.

“After I noticed the video I believed, that was fairly silly however no matter.”

“I noticed a woman chasing a automobile via an intersection in south Florida and I believed, ‘wow she’s actually mad at that girl,’ mentioned Marco Bartelone, when he initially noticed the girl working after one other automobile.

“I really feel like I simply did what anybody would do. It is so cliché to say that however i could not ‘t have carried out something otherwise. I simply wish to say because of all people else that helped,” he saisd.