Incredible Hulk Lou Ferrigno Rescues People in Real Life
By Richard AyoubLOU FERRIGNO, who played The Incredible Hulk on TV in the ’80s, is a reserve sheriff of LA County and San Louis Obispo County.
Lou tells us working with the sheriff’s department is a dream he’s had since he was a child. He tells RumorFix.com, “My father was a lieutenant in Brooklyn, NY where I grew up. Because I have an 80 percent hearing loss, he told me I could never be in law enforcement. I always respected the field and worked hard to make sure that my father was wrong. I went through intense training and testing to prove that I had what it took. The mind is a powerful tool.”
The famous actor, who is the voice of Hulk in The Avengers movies, says he puts in 20 to 30 hours a month with the department and mainly works with the Search and Rescue team.
“There was one time a woman had passed out on a hiking trail from heat stroke and exhaustion. We found the woman and were able to get her out of the sun and rehydrated. When she was conscious she looked up at me and said ‘Are you the Hulk? Did the Hulk just rescue me?’ I laughed and said ‘Yes, you’re good now.’ She got so excited and started hyperventilating causing her to faint again! I felt so badly, but it was a sight to be seen,” he tells RumorFix.com.
Sometimes he has traffic duty. “I remember we pulled a man over for running a red light,” he says. “When I ticketed him he got excited when he recognized me. He asked for an autograph and I let them know that he just received one at the bottom of his ticket.”
So what is the bodybuilder doing when he isn’t saving the world from traffic violators and dehydration? He has an online fitness community with daughter Shanna called Ferrigno FIT.
“We offer free health tips and recipes as well as our 90 day workout series called ‘Incredibly FIT’ by Ferrigno FIT,” he explains. “We have had great success with our clients and I am very proud of the work Shanna and I are doing. I have also been filming a few movies that will be released early next year. Life is good.”
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