Two Iowa kids went out for a bike ride and came home heroes.
Gunner Skidmore and Kohen Chick, both 13, were coasting past a yard when they spotted an elderly neighbor who had been stuck on the ground for more than 16 hours.
It was supposed to be a nothing kind of summer morning.
Gunner Skidmore rolled out of bed, grabbed a Pop-Tart and scrolled TikTok. Then his best friend, Kohen Chick, FaceTimed: grab your bike.
The 13-year-olds set off toward Muscatine along 57th Street South, but something in a yard made them hit the brakes.
“I went to the trail and Kohen was like, ‘You see that lady back there?’ I was like, ‘No.’ Then, we went back and looked, and it took a little while to find her, and we found her. I said ‘Hey ma’am are you OK?’ She was like ‘Yeah, I need help. Call 911,'” Skidmore told KWQC.
They froze for a beat. Then Gunner called his mom, and his mom called 911.
“She didn’t have her phone or water or anything. She was there for like 16+ hours,” Skidmore said.
The woman had been down since 5 p.m. the night before. She’d slipped feeding her horse, couldn’t get up, and dragged herself from the backyard to the front, praying someone would see her.
Nobody did – not for 16 hours, through the night and into the heat.
“She was like scared. You could just tell because like her face, she was covered in all these bugs and stuff,” Chick said.
An ambulance rushed her to a Muscatine hospital. The boys know how close it was.
“A few more hours and she definitely like wouldn’t have made it,” Skidmore said.
The kindness didn’t stop at the curb, though. Gunner’s mom has been feeding and watering the woman’s horse while she recovers. And there’s a homemade lasagna waiting for the day she gets home.
