SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-City of Santa Barbara Wharf Maintenance workers didn’t know what caused damaged to railings on the wharf on Monday morning.
Soon fter they replaced what they call a bull rail near the The Harbor Restaurant and Longboard’s Grill building they heard good Samaritans came the rescue of a couple whose car got stuck on Sunday.
Michael Cohen, who owns the Santa Barbara Adventure Company, said he was cycling on the wharf with friends celebrating artist Chris Potter’s birthday when they saw a convertible with tires on both sides of the rail.
They quickly jumped into action to help.
“We said Potter’s Bike Tour unite. Can we get this thing off of here? And it was like, Yeah, we could do it. So, it felt really good to have a community come together to kind of do a small rescue is what it was,” said Cohen.
About a dozen people lifted the car off the railing.
“It was great because we quickly started to work together,” said Cohen.
He called it teamwork.
He said other people in the area helped, too.