An Oregon fisherman is thanking Lady Luck, this time in the form of the handy voice on our phones, when Siri called for help after he became trapped under a massive boulder.
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28-year-old Joe Little was out casting the ol' line at Oregon's Hammond Marina on Sept. 27 when the rock he was using as a stool suddenly budged.
"He said that he felt it start to move, and he put his feet down to stop it, but the boulder was huge, and he slipped down, and it just went over him," the fisherman's grandmother, Kelly Simonson, told local outlet KPTV.
Pinned under the heavy boulder, Little had to do some quick thinking. Luckily, the fisherman still had his earbuds in. He managed to use them to ask Siri to call 911.
However, the approaching tide made rescue efforts tricky.
"Watchstanders at the Sector Columbia River command center received a request from the Warrenton Fire Department to assist with the rescue of a man who was pinned under a rock on the jetty at Hammond Marina," the U.S. Coast Guard explained in a statement. "It was unsafe to evacuate him by foot due to the unstable terrain. An Air Station Astoria MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew launched and arrived on scene at 8:51 a.m."
Amazing! On Saturday, September 27, 2026, Joe Little, 28, of Hammond, Oregon, was fishing alone on the Hammond Marina jetty near Astoria when a boulder he was sitting on shifted and pinned him below the high-tide line.
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His mother told local station KPTV that his Bluetooth earbuds...
