Watching “The Office” will not only improve your mood and elicit laughter, it can also save lives!
That’s the message that came through after a heroic Arizona man sprang into action and saved a woman’s life — by using a CPR technique that he learned from an episode of the beloved NBC sitcom.
As the Arizona Daily Star reports, Tucson resident Cross Scott, who works at a tire and auto shop, was on a test drive when he saw a car stopped on the road, hazard lights flashing and the female driver slumped over the wheel.
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Seeing that her lips were blue, he smashed the back window, opened the door and gave her CPR.
“I’ve never prepared myself for CPR in my life,” Scott told the newspaper. “I had no idea what I was doing.”
Despite having no CPR training, Scott explained that he remembered watching an episode of “The Office” in which Dunder Mifflin branch manager Michael Scott (Steve Carell) performed chest compressions on a dummy while singing The Bee Gees’ hit “Stayin’ Alive” — and copied Carell’s character by using the disco song as a way to match the correct tempo.
Miraculously, Scott’s CPR worked; after paramedics arrived on the scene and rushed the woman to a nearby hospital, they told him that she would have been in far worse condition had he not performed CPR.
The show’s official Twitter account celebrated Scott’s heroism, and the role “The Office” played.