# Yet Another Urban Legend? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 19, 2000, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-urban-legend/37519 "2000-10-19T12:30:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-urban-legend/37519/21 "2000-10-20T09:41:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cisco \* > \*\*I remember seeing an account of a guy lifting a helicopter off his buddy on tv one time. Granted he was a pretty big guy but were talking about a fucking _helicopter_ here. So i would say yes, a woman could probably lift a car off of her baby. It was about 8-10 years ago though so i dont remember what show it was but it seems like it might have been rescue 911. \*\* I was going to post the same thing. Apparantly this guys buddies were watching him go up in a helicopter when something went wrong. The helicopter crashed into an irrigation ditch and they couldn’t get the pilot out. To complicate matters there was a real danger of explosion and one of the pilots arms was nearly severed. That big fat guy didn’t lift the helicopter but he was able to shift the weight so they could access the pilot. In the end everyone was saved and the crowd cheered. yay. Marc PS: I saw that on TLC a few weeks ago. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-urban-legend/37519/22 "2000-10-20T12:02:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by redtail23 \* > **I _tossed_ a television set halfway across the room, from a kneeling position. Normally, although I could (barely) lift that TV alone** Remind me not to watch TV with **redtail23** ---
**Author:** ![Arken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@Arken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arken)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-urban-legend/37519/23 "2000-10-20T13:37:59Z")
Ok, so what we’ve gotten from this is: 1. It is entirely possible to lift up a car… you don’t even necessarily need adrenaline. 2. A man once lifted a helicopter, but he wasn’t a mother (which would have been weird) and there was not a child underneath. So, I still have yet to hear of anyone who knows an actual account of a woman saving her child from under a car from a burst of adrenaline. For labdude and anthracite: It is pretty implicit in the story that this is not a woman who would normally be able to do something like lift a car. The adrenaline caused her to do it. Certainly, there are plenty of urban legends that are POSSIBLE. My question is, again, not whether it is possible, but whether it happened. From what it looks like, no one knows of a confirmed case. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-urban-legend/37519/24 "2000-10-20T20:57:10Z")
The earliest mention I recall was on _Real People_ back in the early '80s. They also had a show on “spontaneous human combustion”, so the believability factor is way down. ---
**Author:** ![Dan\_Tana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@Dan\_Tana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dan_Tana)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-urban-legend/37519/25 "2000-10-20T22:25:40Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by redtail23 \* I’m basing this on an occasion when I _tossed_ a television set halfway across the room, from a kneeling position. Care to explain the story behind this occurance? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-urban-legend/37519.md?page=1)