In an extreme instance of life imitating art, an author of children’s books about a rope-wielding hero reportedly used his jump ropes to save both a dog and a young man from drowning after they fell into an ice pond in Indiana.
Those exploits in December by David Fisher – who also jumps rope professionally – recently earned him recognition as a hero from the municipal government of Westfield, as the Indiana television news station WRTV told it.
