Watching SpongeBob can save lives - teen performs Heimlich maneuver on choking classmate after he ‘learned it on SpongeBob’

A Staten Island teenager saw a classmate in trouble and leapt into action using a lesson he learned from watching “SpongeBob SquarePants.”

Brandon Williams, 13, a seventh-grader who lives in Great Kills, said he learned the Heimlich maneuver from watching his favorite Nickelodeon show and instantly knew what to do when Jessica Pellegrino began gagging on a piece of apple last month.

“Squidward was choking on a clarinet,” Brandon said, referring to SpongeBob’s misery-loving pal in the fictional Bikini Bottom...