Pit bulls no match for hometown hero

 

“I don’t consider myself a hero,” says Rock Hill, S.C., resident Tim Walling.

But to the elderly couple he saved from being torn apart by pit bulls, Walling is both hero and Good Samaritan.

According to a report from Rock Hill Herald columnist Andrew Dys, Walling was driving home from work earlier this month, when he saw two dogs attacking an elderly couple. The woman was screaming, holding a pair of smaller dogs the couple had been out walking. The man was already bitten once and trying to fend off the barking beasts.

But unlike other motorists in the rush hour traffic, who passed by the scene on the other side of the street, Walling spun his pickup around, drove up onto the sidewalk and jumped into the fray.

“A bunch of other drivers saw it too. They must have,” Dys comments. “It happened on the sidewalk and in a parking lot of an apartment complex on a busy city street, near an intersection with other busy city streets.”

Walling had no weapons, not even a stick or shovel, but ran yelling at the dogs and swinging his arms wildly.

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