# Mayor Cory Booker saves Ryan Gosling and box of kittens from burning building! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 13, 2012, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-cory-booker-saves-ryan-gosling-and-box-of-kittens-from-burning-building/618669 "2012-04-13T16:25:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-cory-booker-saves-ryan-gosling-and-box-of-kittens-from-burning-building/618669/1 "2012-04-13T16:25:34Z")
> **[After Rescuing Woman From Fire, a Mayor Recalls His Fear and Focus (Published...](https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/14/nyregion/mayor-cory-booker-says-he-felt-terror-in-fire-rescue.html?ref=nyregion)** > > Mayor Cory A. Booker, who saved a woman from her burning house, said that “there was a time when I didn’t think we’d make it out of there.” While Chuck Norris stands there on the sidewalk and cries like a \*little girl. \* ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-cory-booker-saves-ryan-gosling-and-box-of-kittens-from-burning-building/618669/2 "2012-04-13T16:33:43Z")
I am disappointed by the lack of kittens. :dubious: Reparations. NOW! ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-cory-booker-saves-ryan-gosling-and-box-of-kittens-from-burning-building/618669/3 "2012-04-13T16:36:57Z")
Elsewhere I saw him refer to it as a “come to Jesus” moment. Were he beckoning me into a burning building, I think I’d make sure “Jesus” wasn’t brandishing a pitchfork. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-cory-booker-saves-ryan-gosling-and-box-of-kittens-from-burning-building/618669/4 "2012-04-13T17:44:19Z")
According to the article: _He said a member of his security detail tried to restrain him, but the mayor responded, “If I don’t go in, this lady’s going to die.”_ The article goes on to say: _“When the security man heard the mayor say this, he realized it was okay because they had somehow entered an action thriller movie and the hero and the person he’s rescuing always survive.”_ ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-cory-booker-saves-ryan-gosling-and-box-of-kittens-from-burning-building/618669/5 "2012-04-13T17:51:17Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > The article goes on to say: _“When the security man heard the mayor say this, he realized it was okay because they had somehow entered an action thriller movie and the hero and the person he’s rescuing always survive.”_ In other “The movie has come to life!” news: > [@](#): > > GREENLAND, N.H. — A man opened fire on police during a drug bust Thursday night, killing **a New Hampshire police chief just days from retirement** and injuring four officers from other departments. The shooting devastated Greenland, a town of 3,500 near the seacoast that had just seven police officers including Chief Michael Maloney, 48, who was due to retire in less than two weeks. Jacqueline DeFreze, who lives a half-mile down the road from the house where the shooting happened, said she was devastated by reports that the chief had been shot. She’d planned to attend a surprise party for his retirement. ---
**Author:** ![KAndre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@KAndre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KAndre)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-cory-booker-saves-ryan-gosling-and-box-of-kittens-from-burning-building/618669/6 "2012-04-13T18:07:50Z")
I’ve liked him since the Conan feud (what can I say? I’m shallow.) But now he’s just _hot_! ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-cory-booker-saves-ryan-gosling-and-box-of-kittens-from-burning-building/618669/7 "2012-04-13T18:13:46Z")
Following the widespread reports of Mayor Booker having landed a 747 after both pilots were incapacitated by food poisoning, I’m not at all surprised. ---
**Author:** ![Steken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Steken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steken)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-cory-booker-saves-ryan-gosling-and-box-of-kittens-from-burning-building/618669/8 "2012-04-13T18:54:36Z")
And then there’s [this](http://www.ideastream.org/news/npr/150574561). Vermont pol punching out four bears for raiding his birdfeeders. OK, more like running away screaming once one of them charged, but still. And he really _was_ quoted as telling reporters that “I was within three feet of getting arrrh”, so that’s cool too. If English was my first language and I was good with puns, I would probably insert some kind of “right to bear arms”-joke here, but I wouldn’t know where to start. Help? ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-cory-booker-saves-ryan-gosling-and-box-of-kittens-from-burning-building/618669/9 "2012-04-13T18:56:52Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Following the widespread reports of Mayor Booker having landed a 747 after both pilots were incapacitated by food poisoning, I’m not at all surprised. Surely you’re not serious? ---
**Author:** ![LurkerInNJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@LurkerInNJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkerInNJ)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-cory-booker-saves-ryan-gosling-and-box-of-kittens-from-burning-building/618669/10 "2012-04-13T18:58:18Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Surely you’re not serious? Don’t call me Shirley. ---
**Author:** ![LurkerInNJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@LurkerInNJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkerInNJ)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-cory-booker-saves-ryan-gosling-and-box-of-kittens-from-burning-building/618669/11 "2012-04-13T19:04:13Z")
I cannot believe no one got a video of Cory bringing that woman out of the flames in a fireman’s carry. That would have been enough for him to be elected King of New Jersey at this point. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-cory-booker-saves-ryan-gosling-and-box-of-kittens-from-burning-building/618669/12 "2012-04-13T19:09:17Z")
> [@LurkerInNJ](#): > > That would have been enough for him to be elected King of New Jersey at this point. He would have to fight The Blob to get \*that \*title. ---
**Author:** ![Arabella\_Flynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8491ac/32.png) [@Arabella\_Flynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arabella_Flynn)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-cory-booker-saves-ryan-gosling-and-box-of-kittens-from-burning-building/618669/13 "2012-04-13T21:24:10Z")
I heard a great deal about Cory Booker right after Hurricane Irene last year. Has anyone checked into the possibility that he may secretly be Batman? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-cory-booker-saves-ryan-gosling-and-box-of-kittens-from-burning-building/618669/14 "2012-04-13T22:22:44Z")
> [@Steken](#): > > If English was my first language and I was good with puns, I would probably insert some kind of “right to bear arms”-joke here, but I wouldn’t know where to start. Help? You could start with the bumper sticker I used to have on my old Chevy sta wag: “Support your right to arm bears”. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-cory-booker-saves-ryan-gosling-and-box-of-kittens-from-burning-building/618669/15 "2012-04-14T00:28:05Z")
I saw him a few weeks back on Henry Gates’ PBS show ‘[Finding Your Roots](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2331653/)’ (which had quite an emotional element for the mayor’s father) and he seemed like a very nice, handsome fella who was committed to the community he works for. I wasn’t surprised to hear about his good deed and I wish there were more mayors that set an example like this. For giggles, I give you the [Book of Booker Tumblr](http://thebookofbooker.tumblr.com/). ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-cory-booker-saves-ryan-gosling-and-box-of-kittens-from-burning-building/618669/16 "2012-04-14T00:42:38Z")
Have you ever been to Newark, N.J.? It’s an act of extreme bravery just to admit you live there, not to mention being mayor. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-cory-booker-saves-ryan-gosling-and-box-of-kittens-from-burning-building/618669/17 "2012-04-14T18:47:26Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Have you ever been to Newark, N.J.? It’s an act of extreme bravery just to admit you live there, not to mention being mayor. I know! If he did nothing but pull people from burning buildings in _Newark_, he’d have no time to govern! (\*Love \*the tumblr–Hillary and Cory: When Memes Collide) ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-cory-booker-saves-ryan-gosling-and-box-of-kittens-from-burning-building/618669/18 "2012-04-16T17:28:50Z")
Cory Booker reads bedtime stories to Chuck Norris when Chuck has bad dreams. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-cory-booker-saves-ryan-gosling-and-box-of-kittens-from-burning-building/618669/19 "2012-04-18T00:10:11Z")
> [@Awesomest Mayor Ever](#): > > “I think most people would have done the exact same thing." Yup, toootally. Everyone would risk their lives and run into an inferno. Ain’t no thing. ---
**Author:** ![emcee2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emcee2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emcee2k)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-cory-booker-saves-ryan-gosling-and-box-of-kittens-from-burning-building/618669/20 "2012-04-18T00:25:11Z")
I wonder what kept the cop that was with him from going after the woman. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayor-cory-booker-saves-ryan-gosling-and-box-of-kittens-from-burning-building/618669.md?page=2)