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 lany won t have made it because his reaction was so incredibly quick. and he says, oh, anybody would have done it. anybody could have done it. but i don t believe that. i believe that he did an
but another mom experiences shock and panic when her child slips out of sight. my god. oh, my god. elena is 3 years old on a day that nearly ended in tragedy. i was, like, please, god, save me. november 2008. while vacationing at a family-owned cabin on the oregon coast, the family decides to visit one of their favorite sites. ecola state park is a very popular spot on the oregon coast. i d say one of the top three or four places to visit because it does have such a spectacular view. there s kids and tourists, a lot of people. pitten, her husband scott and little elena or laney are joined by relatives visiting from iowa. scott s cousin, craig s wife karen and their children. it was a gorgeous day. we were having a great day,
oh, damn. until the day i die. october 1st, 2011. 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-sit r 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
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
i didn t drop him. he could have hit his head on the ground and caused real serious harm to him. i laid him down as smooth as possible. you might think eric and his friends then drive craig home, but they don t. they leave him behind to find his own way. adding insult to injury, eric posts the video online. i knew 100% that he was going to end up seeing this. i didn t think that it was going to go viral to the sense where the whole world saw it, you know, but we were wrong. eric may have stopped his friend from driving drunk, but he says that craig doesn t like how the situation was handled. craig declined to comment to caught on camera. me and craig are not friends today. i openly apologized for my actions. not for my motives. oh, damn. however, the way that he was reacting afterwards, he feels as though he was the victim.