16 Great Acts of Heroism By Children

Children can be disgusting, infuriating, baffling, awful, and downright dumb. They can be annoying as hell and make you feel exhausted with their energy, naivete, fast metabolism, and their youth as a whole. They can also be inspiring, heroic, badass human beings. 

While they need to do their homework, stop doing TikToks, eat their vegetables, and get off my goddamn lawn, some kids can step up to the plate to be more courageous, caring, and daring than many people five times their age. I bet you haven't stopped a burglar that broke into your house. Nor did you stop a suicide bomber. Hell, I don't think you've ever save one tourist from a tsunami, much less 100 tourists. Basically, it turns out that the kids are alright.

Cracked readers combed the Internet to bring you incredible acts of bravery that'll make you second guess calling the neighbor kid a punk again. 

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Entry by Afalstein

CRACKEDCON When three robbers broke into her house and took her grandmother hostage, Mittal Pataditya sprang into action. T 617 She bit, al BRAVE claw

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Entry by Ted E.

AITAZAZ HASSAN, a 9th-grader, courageously tackled a suicide-bomber who was about to target his high school in Pakistan. The syear old was killed when

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Entry by gingerninja90

HANS JORGEN OLSEN A TWELVE YEAR OLD BOY IN NORWAY SAVED HINSELF AND HIS SISTER FRON A noost ATTACK BY APPLYING HI level 10 WORLD Of WARCRAFT SKILLS TA

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Entry by Nels Nelsen

CRACKED.COM tw MAINE sootrs AN u. CATETS ARD dn MFRIT Tily Tilly Smith, a 10-year-old girl, saved her family and 100 other tourists from the 2004 tsun

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Entry by Meshuggeneh

While swimming at a Florida resort, 5 year old Riley Braden saw an 18 month old fall into the pool. With no lifeguard and no adults in the pool, Riley

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Entry by Phighter

Louis Braille was accidentally blinded at the age of three due to an accident. This did not deter Louis's desire to learn, though. Louis wanted. to le

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Entry by Mr_Joshua

When their dad found himself pinned under 2000 pounds of tractor. 14 year old Haylee and her 16 year old sister Hanna called the cops. Realizing that

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Entry by gingerninja90

Tyler Moon a seven year old Aussie crawled through 2kms of bushland with nine broken ribs and a collapsed lung to rescue his trapped dad CRACKED

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Entry by WalleyedPike

William H. Horsfall was fourteen years old when he ran away from home to join the Union Army in January 1862, eight months after the start of the Amer

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Entry by treendabean

SeE! 9 months before Rosa Parks. 15 year old Claudet was arrested Claudette for refusing to give up her seat at the front of the bus. She Calvin chall

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Entry by CZM

Iqbal Masih was 4 when his family sold him into debt slavery, an illegal but common practice in Pakistan. He escaped after six years and became a lead

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Entry by ironical

CRACKEDcO She didn't like the food, but 13-ear-old girl conquers Mount Everest anyway. Malavath Poorna, small a schoolgirl from a village in India, be

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AT THE AGE OF 12 AND ALREADY A TWO YEAR VETERAN OF THE CIVIL WAR, JOHN CLEM SHOT A CONFEDERATE COLONEL WHO HAD DEMANDED HIS SURRENDER DURING A UNION R

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Entry by jucama776

11-year-old Audrey Plique got her family (mom, dad, little brother and little sister) out of their 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee after it drifted off road

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Entry by Meshuggeneh

When his grandmother lost conciousness at the wheel of a speeding car, 10 year old Gryffin Sanders took control and guided it safely to a stop in a di

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Entry by femnerd

Asma Ayyub Khan, 13, saved at least 40 children from drowning. Despite not knowing how to swim, she jumped into the deep waters and carried the childr