Positivity: 16 Year-old Teen Saves Father from a Raging Bull
In Vanderhoof, British Columbia, Danielle Walker saved her father’s life:
Saved father from bull, B.C. teen praised
Mar. 3, 2006. 06:15 PM
CANADIAN PRESSVANDERHOOF, B.C. — A 16-year-old girl is being recommended for a national bravery award after she rescued her father from a violent bull attack by kicking and punching it in the nose.
“The bull would have killed me,” Carroll Walker wrote in a letter to the Prince George Citizen after the incident.
“I remember thinking ‘I’m finished. I’m going to die right here.’”
….. Walker was hospitalized for several days, suffering from cracked ribs, dizzy spells and other injuries after the August incident.
Carroll Walker was trying to give the bull a shot of antibiotics for a lame foot when the bull charged him.
He said he tried to run for some trees, but the animal caught up with him.
“The bull hit me square in the middle of the back. It felt like a freight train hit me. I fell flat on my face.”
The bull tossed Walker in the air over and over again. Then Danielle stepped in.
She yelled at the bull and punched him in the nose repeatedly, eventually forcing it to turn its attention to her.
The bull lunged at Danielle, giving Carroll time to drag himself behind some trees.
But instead of attacking Danielle, the bull turned and walked back into the nearby field.
Rustad said the rescue was a testament to the love between father and daughter.
“In recognition of Danielle’s heroism, I will work to personally ensure that the governor general knows of this brave woman’s courage when she (the governor general) makes her visit to B.C. next week,” Rustad said.
