A story to make even an unfeeling, homeless hating, racist Republican feel good:

WHEN Scott Chippindale saw a youth trapped in the wreck of a burning van, he knew he had to act.

He had no water but he did have a six-pack of beer – which he used to douse the trapped driver's body.

His actions – a rare case of alcohol doing some good on our roads – may well have saved the driver's life.

Mr Chippindale, 27, was headed home with his brother Mark and his son Oscar, 7, to St Hubert's Island on the Central Coast on Tuesday night when they saw the crash scene on Maitland Bay Drive, Ettalong.

The trapped teenager was screaming in pain in the wreck of his Tarago, with its rear engulfed in flames.

They grabbed the six-pack of Victoria Bitter they had intended to share after a day's work and sprayed beer all over the trapped 18-year-old.

"We had no other choice, there was no water, we just grabbed it and poured it on him but the flames kept coming back," Mark Chippindale said.

I loved Victoria Bitter while in Australia. It not only tastes good, it puts out fires and saves lives. God bless the Aussie mind and its quick thinking. It was so good, in fact, if I had a six pack of VB, I would be forced to think twice about pouring it on a dude who was on fire.