ZR
03-16-2017, 07:10 AM
LONDON, ONT. - It looked like something from a strongman competition.
A lone man pushing a hulking van down the road in sub-zero temperatures.
But this wasn’t a competition — it was just another day on the job for OPP Sgt. Glen Seddon.
Now photos of the van-pushing Middlesex County police officer have gone viral.
Kary Pellow was working at Trissa’s Family Restaurant on Dundas Street east of Veterans Memorial Parkway Monday morning when she saw a stalled van blocking the entrance to the eatery’s parking lot.
She went outside and approached the van where a young girl explained the vehicle had run out of gas and her mother was at a nearby service station. After returning to work, Pellow observed an OPP officer pushing the van toward the gas station.
Pellow snapped photos of Seddon in action and posted them to Facebook, where the images had been shared more than 2,300 times by Wednesday.
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“It’s pretty awesome,” said OPP Sgt. Dave Rektor, who learned about his colleague’s good deed through social media.
“He decided he’d push a (vehicle) by himself the length of a football field to the gas station.”
The good deed earned Seddon congratulations from OPP Supt. John A. Cain.
Pellow said she offered to buy Seddon breakfast, but he only reluctantly accepted a coffee.
“What an amazing officer,” she said Wednesday.
Rektor, who has been with the OPP for nearly three decades, said the public often doesn’t see all the different ways officers help citizens.
“You do what you think is the right thing to do at the right time,” he said. “The reason we get into this business is because you want to help people out. When you have the opportunity to do that it just makes it that much more rewarding.”
A lone man pushing a hulking van down the road in sub-zero temperatures.
But this wasn’t a competition — it was just another day on the job for OPP Sgt. Glen Seddon.
Now photos of the van-pushing Middlesex County police officer have gone viral.
Kary Pellow was working at Trissa’s Family Restaurant on Dundas Street east of Veterans Memorial Parkway Monday morning when she saw a stalled van blocking the entrance to the eatery’s parking lot.
She went outside and approached the van where a young girl explained the vehicle had run out of gas and her mother was at a nearby service station. After returning to work, Pellow observed an OPP officer pushing the van toward the gas station.
Pellow snapped photos of Seddon in action and posted them to Facebook, where the images had been shared more than 2,300 times by Wednesday.
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“It’s pretty awesome,” said OPP Sgt. Dave Rektor, who learned about his colleague’s good deed through social media.
“He decided he’d push a (vehicle) by himself the length of a football field to the gas station.”
The good deed earned Seddon congratulations from OPP Supt. John A. Cain.
Pellow said she offered to buy Seddon breakfast, but he only reluctantly accepted a coffee.
“What an amazing officer,” she said Wednesday.
Rektor, who has been with the OPP for nearly three decades, said the public often doesn’t see all the different ways officers help citizens.
“You do what you think is the right thing to do at the right time,” he said. “The reason we get into this business is because you want to help people out. When you have the opportunity to do that it just makes it that much more rewarding.”