In 2014, Chelsi Camp was pet-sitting for a family friend when the dog abruptly transformed from panting doofus into small-child shredder. Camp decided to fight back with the only weapons that nature granted to us pitiful humans: her fists and teeth. This wasn't Queen's Rules boxing, either: At one point, Chelsi bit off the dog's goddamn ear. After it finally released her daughter, Camp continued the attack by punching it in the throat ... from the inside. She rammed her fist down its mouth, hopefully while snarling "eat me."

Chelsi Camp / Facebook Real-life superheroes should be required to quip as much as the made-up ones.

Camp's daughter was taken to the hospital and survived her injuries, as did Camp herself. To this day, she remains the Undisputed International Mom vs. Dog Champion.

Callahan grabbed a hose and started spraying down the flames blocking her escape. After clearing an exit, she somehow managed to pick up her immobile, fully adult daughter and carry her to safety. They didn't make it out.

Oh no, don't start that suicide note yet; we didn't mean it that way. Fire and rescue crews arrived so quickly that the pair didn't get a chance to exit the house first. When they found Callahan, she was only most of the way to achieving what skilled firefighters are trained to do, decades after retirement, and with a heart condition.

WSB-TV AtlantaWe're surprised she didn't lift a couple firefighters too, just to show she could.

The same thing happened to 22-year-old Mindy Tran of Lawrence, Massachusetts who in 2014 put her car in park and got out, assuming for some reason that it was "parked." It began to roll backward toward heavy traffic while her two daughters were secured in the back. Tran dived behind the moving car, breaking one leg and dislocating the other, but managed to slow it enough for neighbors to get inside and bring it to a complete stop.

Northeast Rehabilitation HospitalThey presumably removed the tires just in case.

So if there's one lesson we learned here, it's that human beings make better parking brakes than actual parking brakes.

The mother launched into action by throwing herself in front of the oncoming train without a second thought -- which is noble, though we cannot endorse it as a sound plan of action. Trains need bigger parking brakes than, say, cars. Luckily, both were rescued before they could become train food. We, uh ... we don't really know how trains work.

When a tornado landed in Indiana in March of 2012, Stephanie Decker and her two young children were smack-dab in the path of destruction. She did what you're supposed to do and led her family into the basement, but this wasn't one of those tornadoes that moves a dog a yard over before petering out. This was a Category 4. The tornado scale does not range from 0 to 10 -- it tops out at 5. A Category 4 is just short of "peel your skin off and bury it in a tree three states over." Like, maybe only two states over.

WLKYPictured: the Decker living room in Indiana. Not pictured: the Decker kitchen in Colorado, and the Decker bathroom in Minnesota.

Decker threw a comforter over her kids and leaped on top of it, hoping that soft cotton and supple human flesh would be enough to deflect both the forces of nature and the weight of an entire house crashing down on top of them. Fortunately, she was right ... sort of. The storm destroyed their house, but both children were spared without injury. Decker took the full brunt of the collapsing debris on her body, mostly her legs. When the tornado passed, Decker was pinned under the rubble. She sent her children to seek help, but she fully expected that she was going to die.

Joke's on you, Stephanie! You get to live! Rescuers discovered her in the debris with a punctured lung, broken ribs, and two ruined legs. Decker now uses prosthetic legs and gives TED talks about how she lost them while smacking a damn tornado away from her children.

Pete Souza / The White House She uses the new ones to walk with her children in the Oval Office.

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