00:00The new firework freeze from 5-Hour Energy really makes me think about summer.
00:04And you know what I love about summer, Chuck?
00:06What?
00:06Freedom.
00:09Yeah, me too. Freedom from pants.
00:11Jesus, Chuck, put some pants on.
00:13What? It's summer.
00:22The badass of the day.
00:25Thankfully, this guy did the right thing.
00:2722-year-old dude.
00:30It's either going to be his pregnant fiancé that's attacked by the shark or him.
00:36And he luckily didn't run away.
00:41Okay.
00:42He decided I was going to use a touchscreen for some reason.
00:46Yeah.
00:46That is weird.
00:47Yeah.
00:47That's not how it works.
00:48Anyway, here's the story of what this guy did from Fox 5.
00:53It was pretty scary.
00:57It was like kind of a shock towards me.
00:59DeCorey High says he and his pregnant fiancé were in shallow water in Daytona Beach when he felt something sharp
01:06on his left leg.
01:08Yeah, I realized why it wasn't sharp because the way it bit down on my foot.
01:12In that moment of adrenaline, High says his main focus was getting his pregnant fiancé to safety.
01:18When the waves came, that's when it got to waist deep.
01:22And then that's when it yanked my leg and I had to push my pregnant fiancé towards the shore to
01:30get her out of the way.
01:31High says it was in a fight between him and the shark.
01:35And that's when it got me, and then it came up and tried to get my arm, so I had
01:39to push it away from me.
01:40And then I ran and I tried to get my other leg.
01:43It was like gray on top, but when I pushed it off of me, it was about the same size
01:48as my leg to my waist to my foot.
01:52Somehow he managed to get away.
01:54That's when he noticed the damage the animal had done.
01:58Like a whole bunch of blood coming out of my foot.
02:00It was just pouring blood.
02:02Medics rushed him to an area hospital where he's had to get surgery following the bite.
02:07Doctors told him the shark caused a lot of damage and recovery could take about three months.
02:13Hoping that it didn't really mess up anything important in my foot so I can go back to work.
02:21What's your problem?
02:22What's everybody's problem here?
02:24You see that on my neck?
02:27What is that?
02:28I cut myself with a razor yesterday.
02:30Oh my God.
02:31How did you almost die?
02:32I mean, I got electrodes on my chest and everything.
02:34I'm hospitalized.
02:37Badass of the day.
02:38I was close.
02:39The injury was not.
02:40Going to the hospital.
02:40No, honestly, when Dave is setting it up, pregnant fiancé, man realizing shark is coming.
02:49Coming at the pregnant fiancé, dives in the water or something, sacrifices an arm or a leg or beats the
02:57shark.
02:57This guy got one, two, three, four, five little tiny, little tiny shark bites.
03:06I bet your cats would injure you more.
03:09Tommy has for sure injured Stella worse than that.
03:12And she just takes it.
03:14But there was a lot of blood on that when they did their first shot of him.
03:18You're going to bleed.
03:19They showed that.
03:20It's going to bleed.
03:21There's a lot of blood there.
03:22Where?
03:23Right there.
03:23Isn't that blood on those rags or whatever?
03:26I think it's ketchup.
03:27I think that's food that he was eating.
03:29See those on my wrist?
03:30No.
03:31Little pinhole scratches?
03:32Yeah.
03:33About the same.
03:34Huh.
03:34Look out.
03:37I mean, they had to zoom in so much on that foot to even see the little tiny marks.
03:43I'm also calling complete total BS on the rest of his story.
03:47Like that he was in hand-to-hand combat with a shark that tried to get his arm and then
03:52tried
03:52to get his leg and then pulled me.
03:54I'm like, it pulled you?
03:55How many times did it pull you?
03:56Because they don't have arms.
03:59It can only pull you with its teeth and you're only bit on your little toesies.
04:04Yeah.
04:05Pushing a pregnant woman is a great idea, too.
04:07He pushed her out of the way to safety.
04:10To safety.
04:12Hey, but if you do read longer in the story, he actually needs a liver transplant.
04:16He's going to die.
04:17He's going to die.
04:19He's going to die.
04:21Relax, Ryan.
04:22Keep it down.
04:23He's dying.
04:24He's fine.
04:25I don't know.
04:26It's a little much for the badass of the day, to be honest.
04:29Yeah, I don't think he deserves it.
04:30I think he should take it back.
04:32Maybe we'll make this guy a badass of the day.
04:34All right, let's see.
04:34We'll see.
04:35We'll see.
04:36Because he is hiking, impaled himself on a hiking pole, and climbed down a mountain after
04:47that.
04:48I guess.
04:49That's pretty badass, right?
04:50Let's see the story.
04:51We'll determine.
04:52All right.
04:52Is he more badass?
04:54Let's find out from KCEN.
04:56Breathtaking view many don't get the chance to experience.
05:00Towering more than 12,700 feet above the Beartooth Mountains, Granite Peak is known for
05:05its rugged terrain, unpredictable conditions, and demanding climb.
05:09For David Cifaldi and his friends, the goal was to summit Granite Peak and make it back
05:14in a single day.
05:15A challenge they carefully planned for, but nearly 10 miles in, everything changed.
05:20I just slipped on some rocks.
05:22It was just kind of a freak thing.
05:23Something you'd more expect to roll your ankle versus have a catastrophic injury.
05:31As I rolled over, I noticed one of my trekking poles laying on the ground, and as I kind
05:39of set up, I realized that the other one was stuck in my side.
05:46The trekking pole had gone completely through David's side.
05:49The David's leg ran, but the Noah was shocking.
05:52He got very calm, and he set the tone.
06:03Oh, my God, I haven't speared like this since high school.
06:08Oh, my goodness.
06:11He's the badass, not the other guy.
06:14Okay, yeah.
06:14Come on, look at that thing.
06:16Yup.
06:16He still hurt himself with his own equipment, though.
06:18A hundred percent.
06:19That ain't a badass.
06:20It's, I mean.
06:21But he was able to get down.
06:23Okay, let's get Vince to finish it up.
06:24Yeah, yeah.
06:25He kept very calm, and he set the tone for how we handled it coming back.
06:31Once he established that he felt like he was okay, he was still talking, he was still
06:35breathing, there was not a pool of blood.
06:39So at that point, he made the decision that he goes, okay, we've got to get off the mountain.
06:46David's other friend Jesse used a Garmin satellite communicator to contact Search and
06:51Rescue.
06:51At the same time, David relied on the training he uses every day as a wound care nurse at
06:57Intermountain Health.
06:57I think my nurse brain clicked on, and so as soon as I was able to kind of self-assess
07:03and
07:04really kind of establish that like, hey, this is not life-threatening right now, I was pretty
07:13convinced at that point that I was going to get off that mountain, and I was going to
07:18do it under my own power.
07:19That meant turning around, retracing every step they'd already climbed, more than 10 miles with
07:25the trekking poles still lodged in his side.
07:27Is he making jokes?
07:29That was in him.
07:30Six and a half hours.
07:31He wins.
07:32He wins.
07:33Six and a half hours to safety.
07:35He had to climb down with a pole through him.
07:38It's a hard enough hike as it is, and you know, it's so rugged.
07:42Again, the boulder fields, the snow fields, just the endless switchbacks, and having to
07:47do that with so much precision, so, you know, there isn't another fall, the condition doesn't
07:52change, he was just so focused and locked in, it was, yeah, it was just incredible that
07:59he was able to do it for that long.
08:01On the way back down, Brad and Jesse closely monitored David, and together, the three friends
08:06slowly worked their way off the mountain.
08:08I don't think it's something you could do alone, you know, very grateful for both Brad
08:16and Jesse, Jesse walked ahead of us and kind of set the path for our way back down.
08:21Brad walked behind me and just kind of monitored the wound the whole time.
08:25After six and a half hours, they reached the trailhead.
08:29David was taken to a hospital in Columbus before being transferred to Intermountain Health
08:33and Billings, where doctors safely removed the trekking pole.
08:36He's now recovering at home, grateful for the people who helped him through every step
08:40of the journey.
08:41I feel very lucky.
08:42I feel very, I feel like somebody was, somebody was definitely watching out for me, because
08:49like I said, a couple inches the other way, and this would be a different story.
08:55So his rib cage protected him.
08:57It didn't go through his ribs.
08:59It went around his ribs and just skewered him.
09:05That's tough to see right there.
09:07It is.
09:07Yeah.
09:08They don't make that little ski pole edge, you know, like that little ski pole, little
09:14round thing on the end.
09:16You need something that's going to stop it.
09:19Yeah.
09:19I didn't know those things were just built like a giant spear that you're carrying.
09:23I didn't either.
09:23I've never used hiking poles, so.
09:26No, I hike like a man.
09:29But he's more badass.
09:31He hiked six hours impaled by a pole.
09:34Yeah.
09:34I think he was taking photos on the way back and stuff.
09:37He didn't have a little nibble on his foot.
09:38No, he didn't.
09:40That's our badass.
09:41Yeah, this is.
09:42This is.
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