Best Late Excuse Ever!

By: Sara

If you were an employer would you give this guy a job? He is scheduled to come in for an interview but never makes it and never calls. Why? He is busy saving a baby from being run over by a train! True story.

This past Tuesday, an unemployed father of two, Delroy Simmonds, was on his way to apply for a maintenance position at a warehouse when a baby in a carriage was blown onto the tracks at a station in Brooklyn. Simmonds said the wind was blowing at 30 to 40 miles per hour and the mother was frozen in shock when her stroller blew away.

Without thought for his own well being, Delroy jumped onto the tracks, grabbed the bleeding boy and pulled him to safety. Simmonds told the papers, "I jumped down and I snatched the baby up. The train was coming around the corner as I lifted the baby from the tracks. I really wasn't thinking."

Delroy doesn't see himself as a hero (he says he was just doing what anyone would have done), but other people do see him that way. In fact, after the story broke, the job offers started pouring in. Simmonds decided to accept the offer as a maintenance worker at JFK where he will make two dollars more an hour than regular new hires.