Worker Dressed As Devil Saves Teenager

[Champ]

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Ben-Hur Pereira was dressed as a devil but became the guardian angel of a teenager dangling from a four-passenger gondola on a Ferris wheel.


Pereira, who works as a devil in the "Ghost House" at the Groena Lund amusement park in Stockholm, had stepped out of the attraction Wednesday and saw the 16-year-old boy holding tight to the gondola. He had somehow fallen out of the passenger compartment and was hanging 30 feet above the ground.

Pereira, a trained acrobat, scaled the Ferris wheel, reached the teenager and pushed him back inside the gondola car.

"I acted on impulse. I have the technique and had the equipment. To climb is my job and now it just happened this way," said Pereira, wearing a black body suit with flecks of red, a goatee and a silver stud in his lower lip.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=816&ncid=816&e=5&u=/ap/20040610/ap_on_fe_st/sweden_devilish_hero

[Spinzonner]

1. What a Concept, the Devil Goes to you

[Lestat]

2. The irony...

[MrBenchley]

3. Meanwhile

a passer-by dressed as an angel stood below yelling, "Jump!"

[Nlighten1]

5. LOL!

[tom_paine]

4. Good for him, forget the irony, it was a damned decent and brave thing

this man did.

Let us focus on that.