Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Ordinary Hero

"Angel" Waiter Prevents Drink Drugging:
Colt Haugen, a 22-year-old student at the University of Colorado and waiter at Ruby Tuesday, was working at the restaurant last month when he saw a man pull a pill from his pocket and put it in his date's glass when the woman got up from the table. "I almost dropped the food I was holding. I couldn't believe what I was seeing," Haugen says. "I talked with the manager. I told her, I said, 'I saw this plain as day. And if we don't do something about this, something's going to happen to this woman.'" The police were called and when the drink was tested, it was found to contain Valium. Nancy McGrath, the woman at the table, was on a blind date and considers Haughen to be an "angel." "He saved my life," she says.

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(HT Megan McArdle)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

There is a much bigger hero than Colt Haugen: Craig Pepin! Pepin gave his life saving others and he is more than a hero, a saint! Mark Kram, a man of Jewish origin, shot the bad guy saving many lives and he is a Yiddish Tom Selleck and has a strength of a Cossack.