The MTA bus driver who heroically helped somewhat lady wandering alone on the Higher West Facet final month hit the hardwood Sunday as a member of the Timeless Torches — an over-40 dance troupe that performs at New York Liberty video games.
Luis Jimenez, 60, was decked out in a black Torches jersey and black monitor pants as he sat within the stands on the Barclays Middle in Brooklyn forward of the second sport of the WNBA Finals, the place the Torches carried out.
The motive force, who has been moonlighting with the troupe for years, instructed The Submit in 2013 that his night-side gig retains him limber for his day job — and equated dancing to the “fountain of youth.”
“It retains your power, every part it’s a must to convey,” Jimenez mentioned on the time. “Serving to individuals out driving the bus is the most effective factor on the planet. I assist the aged with the place they gotta go, give particular have to them.”
No dance transfer is just too robust for the stocky driver, who can break it right down to disco, hip-hop and rock-and-roll — relying what the second requires.
“We convey it to the ground!” he mentioned. “You identify it, they educate us, we study it.”
The boogying wheelman was lately hailed as a hero following an ABC 7 New York report that he pulled his metropolis bus over one Tuesday in September after he noticed a 5-year-old lady wandering the streets of Manhattan on their own.
He instantly knew one thing wasn’t proper, he instructed the station. Particularly when the little lady darted from the sidewalk into the road close to West 106th and Broadway.
“My intuition as a father got here on as a result of if I see a child on the street in want of assist, I might need any person to assist one among my kids or one among my grandkids,” Jimenez instructed the outlet.
“You understand, my spouse all the time, you already know, form of like she’s frightened about me as a result of she is aware of that after I see one thing, it’s like now we have a saying within the MTA, ‘in the event you see one thing, say one thing,’” he continued. “Nicely, with me, I’ll do one thing.”
Jimenez watched the lady for a few block earlier than telling one of many riders to name the cops.
Then he pulled over and received the lady onboard with the assistance of passengers whereas they waited for the police.
Surveillance footage confirmed the little lady strolling alone on the sidewalk earlier than she is helped onto the bus by an grownup.
Authorities mentioned the lady slipped out of her faculty 10 blocks away as a result of her pet fish had simply died and she or he needed to go to a pet retailer to get a brand new one.
The college had additionally reported her lacking.
Cops shortly received the lady again together with her household — as Jimenez added that he hoped she’d discovered a brand new fish.
“If she didn’t get it we should always assist out and attempt to get it for her,” he mentioned.
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