Today I was at "Italian Lake" , in Harrisburg, PA, to take some photos of the bridge and some of the more exotic trees you can find down there. Well, when I got there, I met three awesome young people. Two boys and a girl, who were just there being kids, riding there bikes and enjoying the nice Spring day. Anyway, I was very impressed to see these three young teenagers, brave enough to stand up to another group of teens who were throwning rocks at the fish in the lake. By the time I got close enough to see what was going on, the rock throwing kids were gone. I guess they went to find something else to throw rocks at.

After a few minutes, I saw the "awesome teens" with a stick in the water. The teens were tapping the side of the (concrete, man-made) lake and there was some "thing" under the water swimming towards them. The closer I got to the teens to see what was in the water, the closer the "thing" got. The thing, I could tell, was about 4 feet long and when I got to where the teens were, I saw that the "thing" was actually a carp. A wounded carp. The teens told me that the other group of teens had been throwing rocks at it and consequently wounded it. It had a gash on the back of its head from one of those rocks.

Then I saw something that I couldn't believe. I saw the teens petting the carp. They called the carp over, and then they they were actually petting it. They all felt sorry for the fish because it was wounded and the fish seemed to sense it. This went on for about 20 minutes. It was amazing. The teens, who were all from the area, were as shocked as I was. They said they had never seen anything like it.

I had a nice talk with them and they were planning to write a story about it and then send it off to the local news stations. I told them I would post some of the photos on my blog - and here they are. 

If any of you awesome young people read this, don't forget to send me an email so I can send you the photos.  I think what you did was great!