Jeremi Lorenti and his buddy were driving down the street when they suddenly came upon a skunk wandering in circles with a cup stuck on its head. Sure, they could have driven on, but compassion compelled them to stop and save the poor creature from becoming just another roadkill statistic.

It's been two decades since Dr. Jim Withers first coined the term "street medicine," and he is still out there practicing what he preaches.

Police in San Francisco say a teen robbery suspect was accidentally killed by his alleged accomplice when a bullet from the latter's gun struck the former after ricocheting off their victim's face.

A petty thief who tried to lift the iPhone of a customer at acclaimed Chicago sushi joint Juno realized a bit too late that he probably should have picked a restaurant that isn't co-owned by a martial arts expert who used to be a bouncer.

Buffalo bus driver Darnell "Big Country" Barton says he only did what he felt he was supposed to do when he stopped his bus to rescue a woman threatening to jump from an overpass above the Scajaquada Expressway.

The daring rescue of a man trapped inside a burning apartment in Washington Heights was caught on camera by nearby residents who marveled at the superheroism of their fearless neighbor.

The wife of a suicidal man managed to prevent him from plummeting to his death by holding on to his leg for 20 minutes after he jumped out of the window of their sixth-floor apartment.

Jackson, Mississippi's longstanding and widespread pothole problem is finally getting fixed. Not by the city, mind you, but by an ordinary citizen known to the community as "the Robin Hood of potholes."

A humble pedestrian was strolling down Burgundy St. in New Orleans last Saturday around 5 AM, when he was suddenly approached by a shotgun-wielding robber who demanded he hand over his money.

When his son informed him early yesterday morning that a female neighbor was being attacked, Kent Hendrix, a Mormon bishop from Utah who moonlights as a martial arts instructor, immediately reached for his weapon of choice: A 29-inch high carbon steel Samurai sword.

With a running time of nearly five minutes, this video is a bit on the long side for a viral, but stick with it, if only to watch as a middle-aged, beer-bellied, speedo-sporting Russian dance-floor maniac schools an entire pool-side step class on the fine art of living life without a single fuck in sight.

A "portly" individual wearing a Batman costume surprised authorities in the Northern England city of Bradford when he arrived unexpectedly at a local police station to drop off a man wanted for burglary.

YouTuber mad8vskillz sets the scene: "I found a dumb squirrel that got stuck in a bag of chips or something and rescued it. Squirrels are nasty as hell and have all kinds of diseases so I didn't want to get too close to it."

A week ago, the name Charles Sonder was known only to his friends and family. Today, the 24-year-old subway vigilante better known as Snackman has his very own profile in the New York Times.