Today’s Good News 1-11-24

Today’s Good News 1-11-24

A 27-year-old guy in rural Indiana crashed his truck in mid-December . . . went off a bridge . . . got pinned under it . . . and survived six days before someone found him.  Two men scoping out a fishing spot saw the wreckage and called it in.  Matt Reum was in surprisingly good spirits when police arrived – their chest-cams got the whole rescue on video. Reum even cracked jokes while paramedics were treating him. Since his legs were pinned under his steering wheel for almost a week, unfortunately, he had to have one of his feet amputated.  He’s in good shape otherwise, and just happy to be alive…………. Swiss scientists say they’ve got a new antibiotic that works on drug-resistant bacteria.  It’s the first new one of its kind in over 50 years. The drug is in clinical trials, and they’re hoping to learn more about the construction of bacterial membranes, knowledge that could enable new drugs to kill bacteria…….And finally………………… 

A flood in England swept a woman’s car down a river while she and her three-year-old daughter were trapped inside.  Then it got wedged under a bridge with water rushing all around them. They could have drowned, but a guy named Liam Stych used ratchet straps from his work van to anchor them to the bridge, and got them both out.  Stych said “I’m a father, I’ve got kids. It was just instincts, I had to do something. (Here’s a video.  He talks about it at 1:00.) 

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