holding out for a hero

Check this out:
NY subway 'hero' saves teenager

Is this guys split second decision, heroic action, and subsequent response all just too good to be true?

The skeptic in me wants to say this stuff only happens in movies. I am just to synical. After all - the guy that sent St Jude's the McDonald's Monopoly winning piece turned out to have stolen it.

But this sounds legit.
I would assume there are witnesses.

Cool.