Semi-Truck vs Bicycle
On a rainy afternoon after making a delivery, FedEx truck driver Erick Haufge, right, ran over a 6-year-old Kimball Wiles Elementary student at Tower Square at the intersecton of Archer and Tower roads. Alachua County sheriff's Deputy Becky Butscher, left, investigates the semi-vs-bicyclist accident in which FedEx truck driver Erick Hauge, was highly helpful with the accident and explained the intersection is difficult to see around. The kid was drug a short distance before Hauge realized what had happened and immediately stopped the truck. The kid was rushed to the hospital and was fine without any major injuries. Law enforcement got together to get a new bike for the boy but the sad part is shortly after giving the kid the bicycle, they found out he stole the bike the was hit on. MAN!!
In attempt to break Guinness World Record, area massage students with the Florida School of Massage invited students and members of the community to receive free massages at University House apartment complex. Maggie Hunter receives a neck massage by Rachel Moore, a recent graduate of the Florida School of Massage, while trying to break the Guinness World Record for "longest massage chain," a title currently held by the United Kingdom with 430 participants. Massage student Cavan Mair, center, a recent graduate of the Florida School of Massage, gives a massage to Santa Fe College student Jessica Fasig as participants wait on their free massage. It was a good event even though it began to ran. Students toughed it out and made the most out of the day. The current title holder is the United Kingdom with 430 participants, Florida School of Massage students had less than 300 participants. Good music and good times. Wish I could have received a massage.
I decided to a blog to look back at some amazing stories I have photographed as a photojournalist at The Gainesville Sun newspaper here in Gainesville, FL. One story a few months back, is a retired Army captain by the name of Johnathan Pruden. I met with him at Gainesville Prosthetics. His story is about Pruden loosing his leg in the war while serving his country. After having his leg amputated, months in the hospital and 20 surgeries, Pruden came to Gainesville Prosthetics to pick up a brand new Carbon Graphite socket prosthetic leg with a flex foot that will allow him to walk and run. The leg wasn't one of those fancy ones you see athletes use to run in the Special Olympics, but it was made out of material used on NASA Space Shuttles. That's cool right?
Dr. Paul Prusakowski, a certified prosthetist/orthotist, uses a torque wrench to align the new prosthetic leg for Retired Army captain Johnathan Pruden at Prusakowski's orthotics and prosthetic care clinic, Gainesville Prosthetics. Pruden know works as the Area Outreach Coordinator for the Wounded Warrior Project, a project that helps wounded service members and their families as they recover and transition back into civilian life.
Science Fair Night: Focus on Physical Science
I was assigned a science fair at an elementary school one day. I was like you gotta be kidding me!! I was literally thinking what possibly could elementary school kids do for a science fair that was so damn interesting. Talk a bout dreading shooting this one. I pulled up to the elementary school and literally sat in my car for 5 to 10mins. trying to motivate myself to get something interesting. As I walked up, I saw a sign directing me to Science Fair Night: Focus on Physical Science at Talbot Elementary School. I walked into the schools cafeteria and inside to my surprised were 100 White cardboard presentation boards we all, especially myself, used for projects in elementary and middle school I know I put almost no thought into making look interesting enough to present, lined up on cafeteria tables. I didn't know what to expect.
I walked around for a bit and saw a video of this kid who made a Hover Craft.........A HOVER CRAFT!!!! My first thought was the Hover Board from the classic movie Back to the Future: Part II, one of the most AWESOMENESS movies Ever Made!! Everybody wished they had that board....even though it was pink. Anyway, 10 year old Addison Foli took participants to the basketball court near the schools playground to demonstrate his hover craft made using a tarp, duct tap, cardboard and a powerful leaf blower. The photo features kindergardener Jordan Rodriquez, 5, runs around Foli during his science fair demonstration. Addison Foli built the hover craft with no brakes or steering powered by a leaf blower. The hover craft went up to speeds of at least 5mph.
Students and their parents gather as 4th grader Steven Goodman, 10, prepares for the launching of her Water Model Rocket she built as her science fair project. She took it really serious too. But it was an actual water rocket that she built for The Water Model Rocket Division of the Science Education Communication in Math Enrichment program (SECME) at Talbot Elementary School. You gotta give KiDS credit these days. They are learning more than we every did. Try helping them with they homework. They have you sitting their pondering the answer for 15mins while they stair at you like you stupid. Not that that has ever happened to me before. Just joking!! But no they are alot smarter than we think.
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