Cheerleader who fell on her head: Great Hero?

Would she still be a great American if she had broken a rib and doing her stupid routine after getting seriously injured caused it to puncture her heart? If I was the doctor, I would have yelled at her.

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Well, her stubborn adherence to meaningless rote in the face of a possibly life-threatening injury makes her a great example of the typical American. Maybe that counts for something.

actually, cheerleading is one of the nation's more dangerous sports, and there is a high incidence of paralysis-causing injuries due to the crazy stunts going wrong. it's really awful

there's a girl who lives near me that was encouraged to do a stunt she was unsure of, and she was paralyzed when she fell. she's suing the coach and the school. I should find a link for it...

Wow, poor Tiannamen guy ... he could just have fallen off a human pyramid and kept clapping and stuff rather than letting a tank run him over ... at least I now know what to do when I want to spread the message of democracy in the face of oppression -- and live.

I hate inspiring stories.

Yeah...I'll get behind you on that one. Maybe I'm a crabby, soulless bastard...but that was an incredibly stupid thing to do. I'm surprised the EMT's let her keep doing it. If I was the EMT on scene...the little psycho's arms would've been strapped down.

Many leaders in the United States are (or were) cheerleaders.
But I'm not the kind of "romantic" whom would try to define heroism!

- For the record. I love cheerleader porn!

Cerebro-spinal injury + flailing = stupid.

Actually, the guy in Tiannamen Sq. wasn't run over.

yeah....i was going to say....when i learned all the backboard and spinal injury stuff, we were always told to strap the person's arms down too in case they try to move, because if you don't know the extent of the injury you can cause a lot of serious damage....you would think that they would teach cheerleaders some of that information, considering the chances of them landing on their heads....and what was wrong with the emt's letting her do that?!

To me, heroics involve accepting significant risk of personal injury or death in order to aid others, further a noble cause (to use the author's words), etc. How is cheering a noble cause? I just don't get it. I rock climb, and accept the possibility of injury or death. However, climbing is a selfish, relatively pointless activity. Thus, getting hurt or dying climbing isn't usually heroic. Putting yourself at risk to save another climber? Heroic.

I agree, cute story.


Real life hero:

Except, this guy was placed against a wall and shot. So he is a dead hero.

I have to admit that I found her reaction a bit scary. Kind of like people who go to Bible camp.

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Shes from SIU at Carbondale, my old college. Love her attitude, but the EMT in me says STOP MOVING, YOU MIGHT DO MORE DAMAGE

But it was a heart warming story non the less

When I first ssaw it, I thought .. Aww poor girl hit her head so hard she actually thinks shes still standing and doing her routine!! Then I thought a little and saw it again, then I thought..NO shes got major brain damage and now this is the only way she can communicate.

some sort of seizure sign language?

George Bush, I suppose? Because he was a cheerleader. but then he graduated to the national guard, which is kind of like the cheerleaders of the military...