Bystander shoots out window with handgun
(NEWSER) - At least ten good Samaritans leaped into an icy Utah river to rescue three children trapped in a car that had careened off a road. A defense contractor used a handgun to shoot out a car window and cut a seat belt to help free the kids. The driver had lost control of as he tried to brake around a curve next to the Logan River. He escaped, but his daughter, 9, his 4-year-old son and another girl were trapped as the Honda Accord began sinking. "He was panicked, doing everything he could to get in through the doors, but they wouldn't budge," one rescuer told AP . More»