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How romantic can it be for a couple to go kayaking together through the wilderness of America's Florida Keys? It is the sort of thing which is guaranteed to bring two people closer together, especially when a barracuda jumps out of the water and strikes one of them with such force that several ribs are broken and her chest is sliced open.

This is what happened recently to Karri Larson, 46. From paddling quietly she suddenly found herself unable to breathe - because the barracuda has sliced into her lung.

Larson may have spent a few seconds, unable to breathe, looking at her boyfriend, Michael Hinoiosa, wondering if he could by some miracle action save her life.

He could. Hinoiosa knew just what to do. He reached into Larson's chest and squeezed closed the lacerated lung. This allowed her to breathe again. Then, with his spare hand, he grabbed his mobile phone and rang the emergency number.

It is reported that the person at the other end of the line, having been given a summary of the situation and an approximate position of the kayak, asked where Hinoiosa planned to row the kayak and his stricken girlfriend.

Sitting there among the mangroves, Hinoiosa stayed calm. "I'm holding her ribs with one hand. I cannot paddle this kayak anywhere right now. I need you guys to come to me," he said, saving a life while simultaneously briefing someone who wasn't fully comprehending the situation.

It seems a US Coast Guard vessel could not be dispatched to the couple because the water in their vicinity was too shallow, but a tugboat captain named Kevin Freestone volunteered to head into the mangroves to look for them.

It took him 30 minutes to find them, Hinoiosa all this time keeping Larson alive with his holding her lung together and, no doubt, plenty of reassurances.

As soon as Freestone got the pair into open water, they were airlifted to hospital, where Karri Larson is expected to make a full recovery.

As for Hinoiosa, we hope he gets a dozen medals. What a hero.
www.dailymail.co.uk

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Posted By: Chris Champion - Category: Happy Spot, North America, US, Romance

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The best laugh

November 22nd 2010 06:42

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A close friend of mine has the best laugh in the known universe. It takes one Kate peal of laughter and everyone around her feels good. Spirits soar. Her laugh is so infectious that you can't help but laugh too, even if you have no idea what Kate is laughing about.

And now, 30 years after I first heard that magic laugh, I have discovered why it is so special.

Professor Michael Owren and a team from Georgia State University, Atlanta, have just published the results of a study in which volunteers were played nearly 50 different kinds of recorded laughter and asked to rate them.

The winner was a genuine, spontaneous, open-mouth laughter which used the vocal chords (as opposed to a muted snigger).

And the most infectious laughter of all, according to the study, comes from women.

Especially Kate.
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Posted By: Chris Champion - Category: Happy Spot, North America, US, Psychology

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Today's news: Fare's fair

January 14th 2010 02:52

There are an estimated 13,000 taxis in New York city

It's an ongoing saga: person leaves valuables in New York cab, cab driver finds person and returns valuables.

The latest involves a 72-year-old Italian tourist named Felicia Lettieri, a young taxi driver named Mukul Asadujjaman, and a large purse containing about US$21,000 in cash, jewellery worth several thousand dollars and some passports.

Asadujjaman, who is a native of Bangladesh and is studying medicine in the US when he isn't driving taxis, found the purse on the back seat of his cab, and inside it found an address for the Italian tourist group of which Ms Lettieri was part. Asadujjaman borrowed a friend's car and drove about 80 kilometres to the address, only to find no-one there. He left his phone number, drove home, was contacted, and drove all the way back to return the purse.

He then declined to accept a reward, saying his Muslim faith prevented him doing so.

In 2007, Osman Chowdhury, another Bangladeshi driving cabs in the US, returned a bag containing diamond rings worth $500,000. He had to track down the owner in Texas.

And in 2008 Mohamed Khalil, of Egyptian background, dropped a passenger at Newark Liberty Airport, and later discovered the passenger had left a violin in the cab. When he tracked down the owner and returned the violin, he learned that the man was Philippe Quint, a world-famous violinist, and that the violin was a Stradivarius, made in 1723, and worth about US$4 million.

As well as a cash reward, Quint gave Khalil a 30-minute private performance and then invited his entire family to Quint's next performance, which was at Carnegie Hall.

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