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Ryan Gosling Saved Someone From Getting Hit By A Cab Tonight, What Have YOU Been Up To?
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Jen Carlson
Published Apr 3, 2012
Modified Apr 4, 2012
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Hey, New York... if you live long enough, you will probably one day be saved by the second sexiest man of the past year—the odds are getting pretty good on this one! Tonight, somewhere on 6th Avenue—mere months (and months) after Ryan Gosling broke up a street fight in Astor Place... in broad daylight... between two elderly men... over a piece of artwork (HERO)—the actor reportedly saved a woman's life as she was about to get hit by a cab.
Laurie Penny, a British writer visiting the States, was looking the wrong way when crossing the street and a cab nearly took her down. But Gosling swooped in and saved the day, shouting, "Hey, watch out!" as he grabbed her away from the cold clutches of the Grim Reaper. (Can we keep this man on subway track patrol?)
After any life and death experience, the natural thing to do is Tweet, so Penny transmitted the following message around 6:30 this evening: "I literally, LITERALLY just got saved from a car by Ryan Gosling. Literally. That actually just happened." And right now, Ryan Gosling is probably literally adorably blushing from his latest good deed.
Let's all listen to this song together, as we write letters to whoever clears public art projects and implore them to make this tribute to a real human being, a real hero happen...
And now, we sleep, where we'll dream of the above incident happening, but to us... and also in our version Ryan Gosling won't have a shirt on.
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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