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Photo of Cop Feeding Seizure-Stricken Mom’s Baby Goes Viral

The picture of a police officer in Kansas acting as an especially good Samaritan has gone viral. Featured below, the image was snapped in a mall in Overland Park last month. It depicts Andy Black, a 27-year veteran of the force, feeding a baby whose mother just suffered a seizure. Black was working his off-duty job when he got a call about a women who fell. He rushed to the scene and saw the lady was “disoriented and shaking” while recovering from a seizure… yet still trying to pick up her daughter. So Black, who has four kids and 14 grandchildren, asked if he could be of assistance. “She let me have the baby with her bottle and the baby was crying and I gave her the bottle,” he said. “And somebody took a picture.” A local artist named Jilli Nel was standing nearby and took the photo. “The two of them looked as if they were in their own world as she stared into his eyes and he just spoke to her while feeding,” she told ABC News . “As a mother I felt the pull on my heart seeing such a beautiful moment and I asked him if I may take his photo.” Black adds he and other first responders helped escort the woman to an ambulance; by that time, the baby’s grateful father had arrived to take the child. “I think this touches the hearts of people,” Black said, trying to comprehend why the photo has grown so popular. “It has gotten so big and I’m like, really, this is not a big deal.” Perhaps that helps explain exactly why it’s so popular: Black simply did what came naturally, and that was to help his fellow human being. View Slideshow: 20 Things That Make Us Happy

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Photo of Cop Feeding Seizure-Stricken Mom’s Baby Goes Viral

WTF: Basketball Crazy Girl Continues To Shoot Hoops Even While In A Coma

This is just amazing! Maggie Meier would cradle the beach ball in her hands and, with perfect form, shoot it through her the arms of her sister, who had formed a makeshift hoop. Swish! The only thing out of the ordinary? Maggie Meier was in a coma: In the fall of 2008, Meier, now a senior at Blue Valley Northwest High School in Overland Park, Kan., complained to her parents about feeling ill. When her conditioned worsened they rushed her to the hospital, where she had a seizure.Doctors eventually discovered Meier was suffering from mycoplasma meningoencephalitis, a type of meningitis that caused swelling in her brain. She would end up in the hospital for 100 days. For two-and-a-half months, she was in a coma. Her doctors and family had to do everything for her, from turning her every two hours to moving her arms and legs for her so they wouldn’t stiffen. Sometimes the family would transfer her into a chair where she would shoot a ball into a mini hoop. After a few minutes of shooting, she would go back to her comatose state. “I have never seen anything like it,” said Dr. William Graf, Meier’s neurologist. “The act of shooting a basketball must have been ingrained as one of Maggie’s basic instincts — her basketball shooting motion came back to her even before she was able to stand up or walk again.” Now nearly fully recovered, Meier says she has absolutely no memory of playing. What an inspirational story! Jeremy Lin eat your heart out. Source Facebook More On Bossip! Put On Blast: One Of Game’s Black Wall Street Homies Posts TwitPic Of Gloria Govan In His Bed, eBeefs With Matt Barnes! Not So Secret: We Decipher All The Hidden Messages Rih Rih And Breezy Sent Each Other On Their New Songs Together! Sidepiece Showdown Pt. 2: Hollyweird’s Most Notorious Mistresses From Riches To Rags: A Gallery Of Huge, Multi-Million Dollar, Ballerific Cribs That Have Been Foreclosed On

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WTF: Basketball Crazy Girl Continues To Shoot Hoops Even While In A Coma