Sam Ratsuki shares his story on ‘Fox and Friends.’
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Griff yeah and he liked it. It
covered his whole beard. He said
an incredible roadside rescue, a
man pulls his car over to save
an injured, bald eagle on the
side of the road in
Minnesota. On a highway there
Jedediah he ran through traffic,
jumped a median and
crossed multiple lanes to save
our national bird.
That daring driver
SAM Rituski joins us now.
Sam thanks for being here with
us.
Ive got to tell you my wife a
couple days ago saved a
hummingbird, but there wasnt a
whole lot of risk of bodily harm.
These eagles have talons that
can tear you apart and youre
running into traffic.
Did that eagle, give you a sense.
It was going to tear you apart,
or was it grateful you saved
its life
laughter
when I first grabbed it yeah?
It definitely did not like what
I was doing
when they say their heads can
spin around one hundred and eighty degrees. Their
heads can spin around one hundred and eighty
degrees,
so it was
Jedediah SAM. I love that photo
laughter,
Jedediah im just going to say
I love that photo right there,
its a beautiful photo and when
we hear the story of how this
went down, it sounds like
it could have been dangerous for
you
im an avid animal lover, so im
so grateful what you did
were you nervous or scared for
your own safety at any point,
a little bit
laughter
that stretch of thirty five gets pretty
busy four lanes on each side,
but I dont know
theres just something about
seeing eagle there on the side
of the road where I knew I just
couldnt, let it sit there,
its our national bird
id like to think of myself as a
fairly patriotic individual and
grew up in northern Minnesota,
deep respect to the outdoors. So
I just couldnt. Let it sit there.
Griff, yes, good on you, SAM
youre, an eagle saviour. Now, that
is a title to add
good job. But do we have any
idea of what happened to the
bird why it was injured
so im assuming it was hit
by a car.
There was actually a dead
raccoon out in front of it. So
it either got clipped trying to
pick it up off the road or
there was woods on the other
side and it got snatched out of
the woods and came out too low
SAM weve got to
make you an honorary eagle scout.
If you dont already have that
title, but whats happened to
the eagle now,
is it going to make a full
recovery?
Is it back in the wild
yeah so actually heard
from
the Minnesota DNR yesterday,
the bird actually didnt need a
lot of rehabilitation.
They were able to fix it up and
release it within the last few
days already.
So it was the best outcome I
could have hoped for
Jedediah SAM any advice to
people who might be in a similar
circumstance.
Dont put your life at risk.
Laughter,
I made sure I was smart about it
and I didnt want to put any
other at risk either, but I
think I dont know
just kind of go with your gut
and do whats right
Griff. Well, you did whats right
SAM. Thank you for joining
us and, thanks to you, a bird is.
Transcript generated on 2020-07-21.