Video: Jose Luis Medrano Pushes Van Off Tracks, Barely Dodges Train In Argentina

Thirty-year old Jose Luis Medrano is being hailed as a hero in Argentina, and all over the world, today after a surveillance video was spread on the internet featuring him pushing an occupied van off some train tracks moments before he got himself out of the way of a speeding train. Okay, it's not exactly speeding, but it woulda left a mark! Someone call Hollywood. We've got a new Jackie Chan on our hands. The incident occured in Tigre which is in the state of Buenos Aires, on the northern side of the city of Buenos Aires. Medrano later told the press that he was returning from visiting the sanctuary of local folk saint Gauchito Gil in Mercedes, riding on the back of his friend's motorbike, when he saw that a van's engine had stalled on the tracks in Tigre and that a train was approaching. Not even knowing who was in the van, he jumped off the bike and ran forth to push the vehicle to safety, narrowly escaping being hit by the train himself. "I'd do it again," he said. "It doesn't matter that I didn't know them. A fellow human being was in trouble." Medrano who runs a bar in General Pacheco and is married with three small children, one of them just a few days old, was scolded by his wife and father who called him "crazy," but he says he has no regrets. "It feels surreal to me. I don't feel braver. I feel humbled."

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