Teens rescue cousin with fishing line

"Fourteen-year-old Kong Vang saw his cousin flailing in the water, fighting to stay afloat in the Little Canada pond where six cousins had been fishing," the Star Tribune story begins. "With chaos and panic setting in on shore, Kong cast his fishing line out into the water, hoping to snag Tou Ger Yang...."

A Minnesota county sheriff calls it "one of the most amazing rescue stories I have ever heard," KARE reports, with teens using an 8-pound test line and CPR to save their drowning cousin, also 14. The Twin Cities TV station has video of the relatives and the story that began with a mysterious note left on a windshield.

WCCO adds more in a video and text report. "It was actually a bobber," says Kong Vang about his line casting, "a fake worm with two hooks on it." After three attempts, the 105-pound Tou Ger caught on, WCCO reports. "I was just flapping my hands, and all of the sudden it just wrapped around my hands and the hook got on me too," Tou Ger recalls.

And the Pioneer Press puts some follow-up in its story. "Tou Ger Yang spent four days in the hospital," the paper reports. "He still has water in his lungs, making breathing difficult. But he has recovered enough to go fishing again."