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The Best of Aussie: Corey Warburton

Viewpoint July 24th, 2008

Just read this for a positive story about a young man doing an act of unselfish heroism:

A “WILD-LOOKING” teenage “prankster” leapt 20 metres from a bridge into a cold river to save the life of a woman, 70, just moments after finding what was believed to be her suicide note.

Corey Warburton, not to be confused with the notorious Melbourne teenager Corey Worthington, was walking across the Grafton Bridge about 11am on Monday – the last day of his school holidays – when he found the note.

“I was going for a skate and I came across this jumper folded, and it had a note on it and some glasses on top,” the 14-year-old said. “The note said something like ‘Sorry. I can’t take it any more’, and had a name on it.”

Corey looked down and saw a woman floating face down in the Clarence River.

“I thought she was dead … but then she moved her hand to her face. So it was off with my shirt and shoes. I called out for help and then dove over, which probably wasn’t the smartest idea.”

Surfacing a few metres from the woman, in water too cold to describe even two days later, Corey struggled to keep her afloat as he moved her towards the river bank 80 metres away.

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What a credit to his parents and his community he is.