Jun 6 2007Cuba Gooding Jr. saves lives

Cuba Gooding Jr. is being called a hero for saving a shooting victim's life last week. Cuba was waiting in front of a restaurant when a kid who was bleeding from the neck collapsed in front of him. Cuba cradled him in his arms and hailed down a police car. Gatecrasher reports:
[Cuba] was waiting in his car outside a Hollywood restaurant "when he heard four gunshots," says a source. "Cuba was picking up dinner for his family on the night of Memorial Day," says the spy. "He saw a young kid holding his head and walked toward him. The kid was bleeding from his neck and collapsed." Gooding cradled the victim, described as a man around 20 years old, and called into the restaurant for towels. "They came out with paper towels and he said, 'No, we need real towels!'" says the source. The actor stemmed the bleeding and hailed a passing police car. He waited on the scene until an ambulance arrived.
I guess that's pretty cool, but if he really wanted to be a hero he should've jumped in front of the bullet, in slow motion, while going "Yeeeeaaaaarrrrgggh!"
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Reader Comments
1. K - June 6, 2007 10:06 AM
Aww, I've always liked him. And sure, that counts as heroic, he didn't break down and cry and run off.
2. free sample - June 6, 2007 10:19 AM
wait, he was out getting dinner for the family himself? He's on takeout pickup duty for his own family on a traditional holiday and fried food cookout day?
somthing wrong with this picture.
3. B - June 6, 2007 10:20 AM
THIRST
4. black Sunshine - June 6, 2007 10:20 AM
hopefully this will get a lot of good comments . . . mad respect to Cuba for helping save a life!!!
5. kkk - June 6, 2007 10:21 AM
Third? fourth?
6. Free sample - June 6, 2007 10:22 AM
Cuba won Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar for Jerry maguire. even TOM CRUISE hasn't got an oSCAR. Cruise is a 3 time loser and probably has churchfuls of scientists grabbing his food.
Cuba has the hardware and it out on a national holiday bringing home the McBacon?
dayyeeeem.
7. great - June 6, 2007 10:22 AM
yeah, that's pretty nice. too bad heroism doesn't save you from being the worst actor, ever
8. Jack Napier - June 6, 2007 10:37 AM
SHOW ME THE BULLET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
9. kdollarsign - June 6, 2007 10:43 AM
I guess this positive and uplifting story will be hard to be make fun of. But let's try.
10. krazihottkelli - June 6, 2007 10:52 AM
ok,who iz he?
nice he helped the kid,
but who wouldn't...U
would have to be an
azzhole to let someone
bleed to death in front
of U...he had no choice..
11. Shooter - June 6, 2007 10:54 AM
That was kind of irresponsible of Mr. Gooding. Sure, it was heroic, but he needed to think about how this is going to be seen in Hollywood. His career will prosper, and because of that, morons like Tom (not actually Tom, as per the lawyers) will start hiring gang-bangers to shoot each other in front of restaurants so they can "save" them.
This sets a dangerous precedent.
12. Dar - June 6, 2007 10:56 AM
How does jumping in front of the bullet while doing a Howard Dean impression make somebody more heroic? I'm confused...
13. Bodylotion - June 6, 2007 11:05 AM
God damn it Kelly, can't you for once writing fucking plain English, PUH-LEASE? Your substitutions of s's with z's and 'you' with 'U' is just freaking annoying. You aren't more "cooler" if you write like that.
14. Bern - June 6, 2007 11:19 AM
I can't make fun of anyone for this ...
15. Sheva - June 6, 2007 11:20 AM
Me too. I salute the guy. Now if he had only slammed Tom Cruise's head against the wall, he'd be a superhero.
16. RichPort - June 6, 2007 11:21 AM
What, was he too retarded to Radio for help? Get it??? hahahahahahaha
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17. CNN - June 6, 2007 11:24 AM
He was heard calling out "I need real towels! And a starring role in a new movie that doesn't suck! NOW!"
18. IhateKellitoo - June 6, 2007 11:25 AM
There's no doubt that most of these posters would let you bleed to death in front of them.
19. Towlie - June 6, 2007 11:27 AM
See - don't forget to bring a towel!
...wanna get high?
20. Jesse Jackson - June 6, 2007 11:30 AM
It was lucky that a black actor happened by at that moment, knowing what to do in a familiar situation (random black-on-black shooting).
21. Nowz - June 6, 2007 11:32 AM
This almost makes up for Boat Trip!
22. Cartman - June 6, 2007 11:34 AM
You're the worst character ever, Towlie
23. wedgeone - June 6, 2007 11:38 AM
Way to go CG! I salute you.
And the movie Rat Race - superfunny!
24. wedgeone - June 6, 2007 11:39 AM
BTW - #8 - that's superfunny also.
25. Spindoc - June 6, 2007 11:46 AM
""I guess that's pretty cool, but if he really wanted to be a hero he should've jumped in front of the bullet, in slow motion, while going "Yeeeeaaaaarrrrgggh!"""""
Ugh, the comments are getting too painful to even read.
26. kellygirl57 - June 6, 2007 11:55 AM
I'm with Bodylotion....krazihottkelli should get her azz to a spelling clazz. Retard.
27. jeremy - June 6, 2007 11:57 AM
I remember when when Hollywood stars acted like Hollywood stars. It seems like just a few years ago Christina Applegate was making fun of an overdosed river phoenix. now thats how a Star should act.
Cuba should have just called the waiter over and had this riff-raff removed from his sight!!
28. Greatestntheworld - June 6, 2007 12:11 PM
While his actions are commendable, I have to wonder, "How is this news?" Now, if he would have touched the guy's neck and it healed miraculously, then that would be news. Otherwise, it is just a story of a Cuba being a decent human being.
29. True Story - June 6, 2007 12:13 PM
Tom Cruise was in a similar situation a few years ago, but it got covered up. Apparently he looked around, thought nobody was looking, then pulled out his cock and started buggering the bullet hole in the kid's neck. Talk about rubbing salt into a wound...
30. Al Sharpton - June 6, 2007 12:21 PM
Sadly, it turns out Cuba lifted the kid's wallet AND skipped out on the restaurant bill. Still, he didn't do the actual shooting himself, so let's hear it, everybody say it with me:
THERE THERE THAT'S A GOOD NIGGA! GOOD BOY!
Anybody got a biscuit? (and gravy?)
31. bigsteamyone - June 6, 2007 12:21 PM
How come there are no " BOYZ IN THE HOOD " comments? yeah yeah yeahhhhhhhhhh !
32. Angry Ferret Jones - June 6, 2007 12:21 PM
TCLTC
33. Boba Fett - June 6, 2007 12:35 PM
Sounds like a Boyz N The Hood replay for Cuba.
RIIIIICKYYYYYY!!!!!!!
34. Playaz - June 6, 2007 12:36 PM
Word up G!
Cuboid is like weel kool. Wot a wicked dude. Big up nuff respeckt ta tha homie.
Fuck da police!
35. Steve - June 6, 2007 12:50 PM
10- I guess since it's summer and school is out I'm gonna have to read more of your lame ass comments. I really wish you would kill yourself or at least learn to write like someone over the age of 4.
36. wedgeone - June 6, 2007 1:21 PM
$100 says the bullet will be traced to a gun owned by Cuba himself, and he'll confess that he and a friend cooked up this whole thing to generate positive buzz. Cmon people, don't be so gullible.
37. Jeanie - June 6, 2007 1:42 PM
I love Cuba Gooding Jr, but damn, was this restaurant in the ghetto? I would imagine an Oscar winner would be going to a posh place where people weren't randomly getting shot. Maybe he's keeping it real in the 'hood.
38. MalynLaReina - June 6, 2007 1:46 PM
mad props to cuba
39. nagger please - June 6, 2007 2:00 PM
Let me guess. A negro did the shooting. they're effing savages.
40. KC - June 6, 2007 2:25 PM
Show me the towels!
41. Chauncey Gardner - June 6, 2007 2:35 PM
However many shitty movies he makes, Cuba's a really nice guy. I met him as an extra on one of his movies, years ago, and he was totally approachable and friendly with everyone.
Donald Sutherland, on the other hand, was an imperious prick, who wouldn't talk to anybody but the director, and who nearly cleared the set with his chronic gas problem. I'm sure they had to ADR the entire scene due to the ferocious rumbling of his bowels.
42. awoke suddenly - June 6, 2007 3:00 PM
whoa whoa whoa - Chauncey Gardner, if you've got stories like that, why the fuck are we reading any of this crap?! Let's hear 'em!!!
43. EatShitAndDieBitchez! - June 6, 2007 3:11 PM
Yea==I saw #13 & 18 do=in 26
in the menz bathroom and they
were so nazty...damn...they
couldn't even wait to get in
privacy to do their stuff(winkwink)!
what a bunch of fuckin HOz...
44. KAWS - June 6, 2007 3:16 PM
What a surprise, dumb ass ignorant crackers making jokes even when it's a black man doing a good thing... Yeah I'm sure white trash like that dirty cum sucking Paris would have jumped at the chance of saving this guy, no wait she probably would have just jumped on top of him trying to get him erect so she could rape him for the publicity.
Fucking crackers.
45. skankalicious - June 6, 2007 3:21 PM
Well maybe I'm the cynic but I always wonder if things like this are a set up for good publicity ? Like when princess Diana saved the tramp from dying - I thought Uh huh - SURE!
46. nagger please - June 6, 2007 3:31 PM
I'd take white trash over negroes any day..
47. Mark Fuhrman - June 6, 2007 3:34 PM
#44 - KAWS/gibbering monkey/slaveboy/whatever, you were jerking off when you wrote that last part about Paris, weren't you, bignose? We've warned you about even thinking about white women. Don't make me get the rope! At least not until you're finished picking that cotton, boy.
48. Wedgeone - June 6, 2007 4:05 PM
Stop the race hatin' 'round here!
49. Wedgeone - June 6, 2007 4:11 PM
You hear me, hillbilly boy?
You too, monkeyboy.
Fuckin rednecks and tarbabies. Who the fuck thought it was a good idea to give the South internet access?
50. DEL - June 6, 2007 5:05 PM
I'D BE WORRIED....DOES THIS KID HAVE AIDS OR SOMETHING? HE'S A BRAVE MAN!!!
51. Julie - June 6, 2007 6:16 PM
Racism is so lame. Racist people are ignorant arrogant disrespectful pieces of shit. I bet Cuba would have saved that guy no matter what colour he was. Good on him.
52. nagger please - June 6, 2007 6:42 PM
Anyone see the tar baby who punched the 61 year old female teacher with brass knuckles? Typical coon..
53. Condom Man - June 6, 2007 9:39 PM
This is so fake, come on people. How would you be both cradling a man bleeding from the neck, applying pressure with towels to stop the bleeding, and flag down a passing police car all at the same time? Because the guy wasn't really shot. This is hollywood after all.
54. JNP - June 6, 2007 9:39 PM
25- "Ugh, the comments are getting too painful to even read."
I agree. I find that it's best to not read the last few sentences.
55. krazihottkelli - June 6, 2007 10:38 PM
chill the fuck out, bitchez..
what the fuck...
everyone on here, eatz, zhitz,
zleepz, breathz the zame fuckin
air, fuck all U fuckerz...
56. Ihatekellitoo - June 6, 2007 11:02 PM
55 Doez your babyzitter know you znuck out of bed to get on your mommiez computer?
Get back to bed. You have an early doctorz appointment tomorrow for your rabiez zhot.
57. krazihottkelli - June 6, 2007 11:27 PM
56==mia bitch....
I freak=n told your
azz to stay on satanz
dick...and get off my
azz, bitch....
58. crackpipe - June 6, 2007 11:53 PM
Too bad it wasn't his agent. When will Cuba be in a decent film again?
59. crackersRCorny - June 7, 2007 12:27 AM
Fucking crackers... internet courage since 1995.
Keep hating lol... we will still keep white bitches swallowing.
60. krazihottkelli - June 7, 2007 12:50 AM
59===yea, maybe the fat
beached whalez....I've
zeen quite a few of them..
U can have them, we don't
want them..their too fatt
for uz..their too fatt for
uz...their too fatt for uz
SO, U can have her, we don't
want her, shez too fatt for uz
zhez your big fatt whale..enjoy!
61. crackersRcorny - June 7, 2007 1:01 AM
Keep repeating that to yourself casper. Just like Heidi Klum is too fat, ugly and trashy for you, right?
LOL. Effeminate queer
62. why - June 7, 2007 1:57 AM
what the fuck is up with white people and always wanting to be such fucktards? if it wasnt for africans and other races other than white people how the hell would america function? answer those two question with the little fucking sense you have left you pieces of shits.
63. why - June 7, 2007 2:11 AM
whoever the fuck started this shit take a good fuckin look in the mirror i hope you are damn proud of yourself you just sit behind your computer screen with all your glory while you sit here and watch everyone get pissed over your dumbass comments. how does a grown ass dumbass stoop so low? and i bet you got friends of another race but you wouldnt want them to see that shit your shitforbrains self put up there- and i aint talkin bout KAWS!
64. Hahahaha - June 7, 2007 7:31 AM
"Fucking crackers... internet courage since 1995."
That's got to be the best line I've read all week. Hilarious
65. Imperial Wizard - June 7, 2007 11:22 AM
Yeah, "internet courage," that's all we have. A shitload of unmarked graves say otherwise. But maybe we'll show you an online clip from "Roots" as the noose tightens around your neck...
66. Yawn - June 7, 2007 7:24 PM
What's the matter #65? Are you in your period or you're just missing your daily dose of brokeback dick?
There's nothing cuter than an angry fag. lol
67. krazihottkelli - June 8, 2007 3:02 AM
hey CrackerzRHorney....
bitch..don't fuckin
play hate my azz!
if I'm freakin "Cazper"
then u muzt be...hummmmm
well, let me zee......ah..
what iz all black......ah.
ok..your an demon from hell...
fuck U demon,Mia iz waiting
in Canada for U, bitch,now go.
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fuck U===ImperialFuckinWizard
don't be bringing up old zhit..
damn...theze demonz haven't a clue
what their anceztorz went thru..
theze blackboyz R spoiled rotton
kidz...their mammyz wiped and kizzez
their azzez, fuck...
and I do believe that
Yawn got tit right...
ImperialWizard did mizz
hiz daily doze of
brokeback did...
shit, I saw"PulpFiction"
thoze fuckin white boyz
like fuckin brokeback
dickz....
68. Jennifer Smith - June 8, 2007 8:46 AM
Since when is a man in his 20's known as a
"kid?" It is still great the Cuba helped out, but sounds to me like the media is trying to make him out to be the patron saint of small gangster children who can barely walk.
69. Kit Sevilla - June 9, 2007 6:26 AM
He should have jumped in front of the bullet to be considered a hero??? And what would you have done homo? I bet you will scream like a little girl and call for your mom if you hear gunshots...
What he did is heroic in my book....