A homeless man who left an employment interview to save a baby from rolling into traffic has been rewarded with the job.
Ron Nessman’s heroics were caught on a heart-pounding video showing the moment the Good Samaritan raced in to rescue the infant.
Now-viral footage from Monday showed the baby’s great aunt reacting in horror as the pram starts rolling away as she gets out of her car in Hesperia, southern California.
As she tries to run after it, she trips and falls face-first into the pavement before falling again as she tried to get back to her feet.
Just as the baby is set to career into the traffic, Nessman manages to capture the baby, averting disaster.
Now the homeless man has been rewarded with a job at Applebee’s restaurant, where he was being interviewed.
“He's a great guy and he was a great candidate, and he'll definitely fit with us here in Team Victorville at Applebee’s,” general manager Emily Canady said.
The Good Samaritan said he is just glad to have a job and be able to work after years of being homeless.
“I gotta come to work tomorrow, and I can hardly wait to start doing what I do, you know what I mean? It's going to be a good feeling,” he said.
Nessman also said that despite online fundraisers having been started for him, he wants to make his own money.
He will now be washing dishes in the kitchen after years of being homeless.
The Mirror reported last week how the woman had been looking after her great-nephew when a gust of wind set the pram rolling towards a main road in the city northeast of Los Angeles.
The footage shows the pram beginning to roll before the poor woman notices it.
Witness Ron Nessman was sitting on a bench nearby when he saw the incident begin to unfold.
Mr Nessman said at the time: "She sees the child going into the street and that's all she sees. She can't do nothing."
Thankfully moments before the pram reached the road, the Good Samaritan managed to grab it.
Mr Nessman said: "I seen her and I felt so bad for the lady.
"I got nephews and nieces and I couldn't imagine something like that."
The hero is a former truck driver who has been trying to piece his own life back together following the death of his girlfriend in 2018.
He became homeless and has only recently moved back to the area. He had just finished a job interview when he saw the pram beginning to roll towards the busy road.
"I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I did nothing," he told Live5news.
"I'm just glad I realised it and was on it."
Mr Nessman said he hoped this ordeal would remind parents to make sure they always locked the wheels on their strollers.
Although designed to make looking after children all the easier, prams can be dangerous if not locked away properly.
The horrific fate of Susan Dibene, 33, shocked mums across the US, when her pram got stuck causing her to be hit and killed by a train.
In the 2011 incident she desperately tried to free her two-year-old daughter as a commuter train bore down on her in Riverside, California.
In her final moments she managed to free the buggy and push her child clear but was hit herself.
