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When serendipity, luck, good karma and Mercury finally working in your favour all collide, you get a moment as amazing as when Ron Nessman become a hero.

Having battled grief, homelessness and unemployment for years, Nessman was leaving a job interview at an Applebee’s restaurant in California when he noticed a baby in a stroller rolling into the path of speeding cars.

This inspiring story has interrupted the news cycle dominated by Coronation and Trump-related headlines, notes The Guardian, reporting on how Nessman sprinted into the street, stopped the stroller, and saved the child from a possible premature end.

“I didn’t even have time to think about it,” Nessman told the local news station KOVR-TV when reflecting on his actions, which many have hailed as heroic. “You just react.”

Unhoused for about eight years, plagued by the grief from the sudden and shocking loss of his girlfriend, Nessman had reportedly been living with his sister during recent months and was in desperate need of work.

He was at Applebee’s in San Bernardino County to interview for a position washing dishes at the restaurant on May 1, when his life, quite miraculously, turned around for the better.

He had been uniquely positioned to notice a great emergency unfold, and effortlessly saved the day:

A woman had stopped on the driveway of a nearby car wash and loaded her great-nephew into a stroller when strong winds blew the baby away from her. The woman chased after the stroller but fell, and she struggled to get back up as she helplessly watched the baby roll toward a street which was packed with motorists who may or may not have been obeying a speed limit of 40 miles (64km) an hour.

A surveillance camera at the car wash captured the dramatic moment:

And that, my friend, is proof that absolutely anything can happen at any moment.

[source:guardian]