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- From: david@elwood.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (David Johnson)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: MOTHER PICKS UP CAR
- Message-ID: <1287@xlnt.COM>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 19:53:53 GMT
- References: <1h8lr3INNirn@mirror.digex.com> <28147@dog.ee.lbl.gov> <1992Dec29.101540.3008@mtroyal.ab.ca>
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- In article <1992Dec29.101540.3008@mtroyal.ab.ca>, mtambay@mtroyal.ab.ca writes:
- |> > +>> Please pardon my ignorance and skepticism, but can anyone document
- |> > +>>these episodes in which a mother lifts a car to save her child? I too have
- |> >
- |>
- |> I first heard this story in Montreal in 1973, the last time I ran into this
- |> story was in 1976 when my philosophy prof at UofM (Manitoba) put it in context
- |> of cause, effect and the mind. I'm paraphrasing "You heard of that woman lif-
- |> ting that car to save her child but you don't hear of the damage she did to
- |> her vertebrates.." I don't know his sources but I wonder if this story is
- |> an urban myth along with "this bridge/dam/skyscraper/beer vat has a worker
- |> buried in the foundations because they couldn't retreive him when he fell in."
-
- One story I heard of the "mother lifts a car to save her child" the
- mother did suffer quite a bit of damage to her vertebra and joints.
- I think it is possible. You all have heard stories of people on
- PCP exhibiting the strength of several men. My theory of why one
- normally cannot lift a car is not because your muscles are physically
- incapable of generating the necessary power but rather that defensive
- mechanism built in your body prevents you from doing such things to
- prevent injury. Have you ever noticed that whenever you do get an
- injury you unconsciously protect it? I think PCP suppresses this mechanism
- and that is how PCP users are able to generate such power. My guess is
- that these people are tearing up their own tissues at the same time
- they are throwing police and ambulance workers around or breaking
- restraints.
-
- This subject sounds like it would make a good research paper. I would
- not be surprised if such research has already been done.
-
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- David Johnson
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