It was a “Hulk out” moment, when one man had to do the impossible to save someone else. But he did it. So what else are humans capable of?
Maybe it’s the adrenaline, or maybe it’s something else, but when one man driving along a Minnesota highway spotted trouble, he jumped into action. He saw a vehicle on fire and stopped to help. But the fire fried the electrical system, and the driver couldn’t unlock the door or open it.
That’s when 52-year-old Robert Renning bent the car door with his bare hands and pulled the driver out. “Impossible”, but true.
Many scientists believe there’s a lot left to be unlocked in human potential. That’s the idea behind things like stem cell research and other genetic or pharmaceutical testing. In fact, a movie about this exact idea is coming out later this month: “Lucy”, with Scarlett Johanssen, is about a woman who absorbs a drug that lets her use more of her mind. She gets stronger, faster, and smarter as part of it.
And while that’s science fiction, what happened in Minnesota was the reality that makes a movie like Lucy seem possible. Bending a car door off the frame seems to tap into a potential that we all might have.
So our Man on the Edge, Robert Wilder, set out to see if he could find it…
