Copalis Beach hero

Often, the media uses “Good Samaritan” to describe any person who does good. Tuesday morning, a Copalis Beach resident quite literally followed the story of the Good Samaritan. The North Beach man has a long commute, so it was around 3:30 a.m. that he was driving east, on Ocean Beach Road. His headlights flickered across a shadowy form on the side of the road. Would have been easy for him to think, “Must be drunk,” and keep on driving. But this man stopped, found out it was someone who was seriously hurt, and drove him to Grays Harbor Community Hospital.

The victim had been assaulted and lit on fire, prior to being dumped by the side of the road.

“Had he laid there for any length of time he certainly would have suffered fatal results,” said Rick Scott, of the Grays Harbor Sheriff’s Department. “This gentleman can certainly be credited with having saved his life.”

From the Bible story:

“A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side. But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him. And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.”