I like to think that I'm a good enough driver to spot possible issues along the side of the road and avoid them safely if necessary, but I know that if I'd been the person speeding down a highway at rush hour, I wouldn't be eagle-eyed enough to do what Kristyn Gamblain did on her way to work.
Sure, I might have spotted a dark blob sticking out from one of the concrete barriers, but I probably wouldn't have noticed it move.
In her now viral Facebook post, she says she was doing about 60 MPH at the time and it took her two more exits to convinced herself that yes, she'd seen a trapped kitten, and hell yes was she going to go back to save it.
Slowing down to a leisurely 45 MPH in the "fast lane", she watched the barriers for the kitten and pulled over as close to the barrier as possible when she spotted the little tail flicking slowly.
The kitten was well and truly stuck in the crevice between two barriers. In its struggle, it was moving up into where the barely two-inch gap became narrower, so Kristyn wedged her shoe in to prevent the kitty from getting in even tighter.
A woman is pulled over in the safety strip of the highway, still partially blocking the lane with her hazards on, kneeling in front of a concrete barrier without shoes on.
So yeah, a passing highway patrol officer pulled over to investigate.
Soon after, another cop car pulled over and an officer began setting out traffic cones to more smoothly direct traffic around the rescue operation.
Officer Galbraith also turned out to have much smaller hands, so she was able to get them in farther and feel that a loose piece of rock was the culprit trapping the kitten in place.
There were cheers all around and though Kristyn had literally just adopted another kitten a week prior, when asked if she was going to keep this new one, there was no question.
So Kristyn took the little rescue home to meet her new kitten sibling, Ginni, and quickly decided on a name: Jersey, after the Jersey barriers the poor thing had been stuck between.
h/t: The Dodo
