a group of friends in atlanta, georgia, are heading home after attending a party. as they make their way to the parking lot, it s clear to eric green that his friend, craig, is in no condition to drive. i noticed that he was drunk the second i walked up to him. the look in his eyes. the smell of his breath. craig wasn t supposed to be the drinker. he was supposed to be the designated driver. eric demands that craig hand over his keys. we were arguing for an hour and a half. just trying to get the keys out of his hands. and he started talking about picking up his daughter, taking his daughter home. getting her from the baby-sitter. he doesn t care, no one is going to stop him. you re not going to drive your daughter home. you re not driving your daughter home. i would not have felt comfortable with myself if i would have allowed him to get into that car, pick up his daughter, drive who knows where and something happened. let me drive home. he got to a point where he was li
to end up seeing this. i didn t think it was going to go viral to the sense where the whole world saw it, you know, but we were wrong. oh, damn. first time i saw the video, i was actually embarrassed. i felt as looked at as like the bad guy, but after i started seeing the reactions of other people and i was getting thank you for what you did, i realized that the people understood the motive and not the action. eric may have stopped his friend from driving drunk, but he says craig doesn t like the way the situation was handled and craig declined to comment on caught on camera . me and craig are not friends today. i openly apologized for my actions and not for my motives. oh, damn! however, the way that he was reacting afterwards, he feels as
hurting me, you re hurting my hand. pitten s husband scott who was walking in another area of the park and missed the accident returns to a chaotic scene. everybody s all up in arms and screaming and yelling. i, of course, said, oh, it s not that big a deal. settle down. but when scott pitten views the tape, he realizes just how close he came to losing his daughter. i remember thinking the first time i saw it on tv, i thought, i can t breathe. i mean, because it really did. it just like all of a sudden i saw that happen and it was like i couldn t breathe. the pittens attribute elena s survival to one very selfless and fast-acting relative. i really believe that if craig wasn t there, if it may have been another person there, that she wouldn t have made it because his reaction was so incredibly quick. and he says, oh, anybody would have done it.
karen had just asked the girls to get together so she could get a photo. so they kind of scooted closer together. but, in the blink of an eye girls, look. as she poses in front of the fence my god. oh, my god. elena stumbles, slipping through the rails and quickly dropping out of sight. i started praying, and i was going, oh, god, oh, god, help her. oh, god. and it was just the sheer panic that i had never felt before in my life. without hesitation, cousin craig jumps over the fence and lunges toward elena as she rolls toward the cliff s edge. it was just terror. i didn t think he was going to be able to grab her. i really felt when i reached the fence that i was going to see her on the ground. in the nick of time, craig reaches elena and stops her from plummeting down the jagged cliff.
she had just grabbed on to a little bit of grass and a little bit of weeds that was there because she was at the part that kind of went like this at that point. and she was just starting to stand up. she would have fallen right back. during the fall, elena grabs at the other little girls knocking her cousin s shoe off. the other children are frightened. elena is shaken. laney was crying. did you get that on video? no. one of the other girls was crying because when she fell she tried to grab the other girls. could have been a lot worse. she could have grabbed both the other girls and brought them with her. pitten grabs and comforts her daughter while trying to regain her own composure. i felt like i was just going to faint. i just was in shock and kind of sick to my stomach. there s another area in the park that you can walk around. and i just was grabbing on to her hand so tight. she was, like, mom, you re