Incredibly flexible MMA fighter performs the splits to avoid sitting next to a maskless rider

Social distancing finds a way 😂😂😂 [Incredibly flexible MMA fighter performs the splits to avoid sitting next to maskless rider]( MMA fighter Alain "The Panther" Ngalani posted a video to Instagram on Thursday demonstrating the importance of wearing a mask on public transportation and it's received over 86,000 likes. In the video shot on a Hong Kong train, a maskless rider attempts to sit next to the four-time kickboxing and Muay Thai World Champion as he's reading a book. But the fighter refuses to allow him to sit down by doing the splits so his legs cover the entire row of seats. [Watch the video]( [Portland Navy vet stood tall asking feds to remember their oath. They broke his hand.]( On Saturday evening, 53-year-old Chris David, a disabled Navy veteran, took a bus ride to downtown Portland. According to the Washington Post, he had seen videos of federal agents attacking protesters, whisking some of them away in unmarked vans, and was disturbed by what he saw. So he decided to go talk to them, to ask them what they thought of the oath they had made to defend the Constitution of the United States. David, who had never attended a protest before, hung back and watched protesters outside the federal courthouse after he arrived on the scene. When the feds arrived, they rushed a line of protesters, and David took the opportunity to approach the agents. [Read the story]( [Antique store owner stunned by mystery piano player found him and gave him the instrument]( One of the oddest things about the COVID-19 pandemic is that it's hard to identify people at times because they are wearing a mask. It can be tough noticing people you regularly see in the community because more than half their face is obscured. In this case, people were trying to locate and identify John Thomas Archer, a 23-year-old architecture student who wowed people in the ReMARKable Cleanouts second-hand store in Norwood, Massachusetts. But it was hard to figure out who he is because of the mask he wore to protect him from getting or spreading COVID-19. [Read the story]( [Two New Jersey transit police officers revive a newborn baby in dramatic new video]( A remarkable rescue was captured on video in Newark Penn Station on Tuesday. Footage from a NJ Transit Police body camera shows officers Alberto Nunes and Bryan Richards encountering a woman in a bathroom stall in the train station holding a newborn baby. At first you can hear one of the officers saying, "It's not a baby," but it's followed by surprise when they realize that not only was it a baby that the woman appeared to have just given birth to, it was a lifeless shade of gray and was not breathing. [Read the Story]( [A forgotten feature of the Statue of Liberty is an apt symbol for how we treat our history]( If Americans were asked to describe the Statue of Liberty without looking at it, most of us could probably describe her long robe, the crown on her head, a lighted torch in her right hand and a tablet cradled in her left. Some might remember it's inscribed with the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. But there's a significant detail most of us would miss. It's a feature that points to why Lady Liberty was created and gifted to us in the first place. At her feet, where her robe drapes the ground, lay a broken shackle and chains—a symbol of the abolishment of slavery. [Read the story]( Find us on the World Wide Web: [Facebook]( [Instagram]( [Website]( Copyright © 2020 GOOD | Upworthy, All rights reserved. 1370 N St Andrews Pl, Los Angeles, CA 90028 You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](.