A mystery man who helped an elderly gentleman with a walking frame cross a busy South Auckland road is being hailed as a community hero on social media.
Takanini woman Angela Jones told the Herald she often saw the older man, who she guessed was in his 70s, trying to cross Great South Rd by the Bunnings from her office window.
He usually had a walking stick but yesterday afternoon he attempted to make the risky crossing with the walking frame.
"I thought 'oh my god don't say he's going to come across the road', and sure enough he attempts to," she said.
Jones, who owns the Curtain Clinic on Great South Rd, said she was starting to feel concerned for the man's safety when she saw a silver Holden pull up on the median strip.
"The chap got out and started making hand signals to all the traffic and I thought 'this is really neat'.
"He did a hand stop and a big truck stopped, and then all the other cars stopped.
"He got the elderly gentleman to the side of the road, then just went over, got in his car and took off.
"It made me think, gosh, if I'd been down there close to the road I would have liked to do the same thing."
Jones said she would love to meet the man and thank him in person for his caring community spirit and welcomed him to pop in and say hi at her shop.
"He probably isn't family to this elderly gentleman, but he's got the inborn principles of caring and looking out for others which made him stop and do that," she said.
