( CNN ) -- Every once in a while a story about an individual saving a life makes a big splash . But it 's rare to find five such stories of bravery clustered together in fewer than eight days . From the teens who thwarted a kidnapping to the real-life superheroes who emerged at Comic-Con , here are five examples plucked from a week of headlines about human beings risking their own lives in some cases to assist their fellow travelers : . . Mobile viewers unable to see the Storify below , click this link .
Recent days have seen a spate of heroics . The first was the rescue by police in London on Friday night of an elderly woman who had been trapped for more than two hours after she fell from her balcony. River guide gets one chance to save unconscious man . Stuntmen at Comic-Con perform real-life rescue .