When asked how he found the strength to lift a collapsed car off of his father, J.T. Parker says it was only one thing: “Angels.”
Stephen Parker and his sons, 8-year-old J.T. and 17-year-old Mason, were working together like boys and their dads do, on a car in their garage last July.
It took the strength of BOTH Stephen and Mason to jack the car up so that they could work underneath it.
As the three Parker men got to work on the axels, Mason cut himself and ran inside to take care of the wound. That’s when the unthinkable happened.
The jack holding up the 6,000 pound Toyota Prius gave way, and the car fell on top of Stephen, crushing him. Eight-year-old J.T. had just minutes to save his father’s life. He was the only one around and it was a strength match between a 50-pound boy, and a three-ton car.
Stephen called out to J.T. to jack the car back up, knowing full well that his son didn’t have the strength to save him. It wasn’t much longer before the pain caused Stephen to pass out.
J.T. worked tirelessly for 15 minutes, climbing and jumping on top of the jack, hoping that by some miracle, he’d be able to lift the car off of his dad.
Wouldn’t you know, by some miracle he did.
After getting the car lifted off of his dad, J.T. ran inside to get his brother, who immediately called 911.
J.T.’s mom, Jodi, said, “This whole thing is a miracle. There’s no other way to describe it. There’s no way that little boy could have done that. I just felt that it was a responsibility we now have to tell people that miracles still exist.”
Stephen was air-lifted to a hospital. Miraculously, after all of that time trapped beneath the weight of a vehicle, he only suffered 13 broken ribs. With no internal damage, he was able to return home after just two days.
J.T.’s parents later filmed him replicating the incident on the same car. He couldn’t even come close to lifting the vehicle.
When they asked J.T. how he did it, his response was simply, “Angels.”
The boy from Idaho has since been presented by the American Red Cross of Greater Idaho with one of its 2017 “East Idaho Real Heroes” awards. Only 11 are given by the organization each year.
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