sean penn (and his red cup?) save more lives

After Hurricane Katrina turned New Orleans into Atlantis on August 29th of 2005, Sean Penn and his red cup arrived to save the day. And by “after”, I mean on September 4th, when the water had gone done and things were under control.

He was only there for 9 hours, wore a bulletproof vest (the only one who did, btw) and almost immediately began to sink, but the photographer he brought documented it all as he was “pulling people out of the water“. Really short people apparently, since there was only about 8 inches of water left by the time he got there (picture).

Now he’s moved on to save Haiti. And, surprise, he’s doing it according to him!

Penn traveled 90 minutes outside Port-au-Prince to rescue a woman and child trapped in the rubble caused by an aftershock. Once he freed them, he reportedly drove them to the University of Miami hospital camp and is staying with them until they have a safe place to go.

Sean Penn has really inspired me. Not to go save people in Haiti, but to say that I did. Hey, did you guys here I saved some people in Haiti? There was an aftershock, and people were trapped, and I took a dozen old cars and built a robot that I call Carzilla and lifted the building up and threw it into the ocean. I’m a hero too!