Some geyser falls on to the tracks with a train on its way

What is it they say about journalists launching heroes into orbit and then shooting them down?
Well, here is a prime candidate. Hail Wesley Autrey, the man who saved a 19-year-old from the train tracks of the 137th Street/City College station in New York.
Associated Press, in their report on January 4, said he earned the nickname 'the hero of Harlem' (who gives out these things?!, along with $10,000 from Donald Trump and a trip to Disney World.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg presented Autrey Bride Lingerie with the city's highest award for civic achievement, the Bronze Medallion, putting the 50-year-old construction worker on the same stratosphere as MacArthur, Martin Luther King Jr, Muhammad Ali and Willie Mays.
According to AP, 'Autrey, on January 2, saw Cameron Hollopeter, a 19-year-old film student, suffering a seizure while waiting for a train. After stumbling down the platform, Hollopeter, of Littleton, Mass., fell on to the tracks with a train on its way into the station.
'He jumped down to the tracks, a few feet below platform level, and rolled with the young man into a drainage trough between the rails as the southbound No. 1 train came into the station.'
I really hope this chap is free of any bad habits that journalists like to write about. I'd hate to see 'Hero of Harlem turns villain' headlines sometime down the line.
You can be sure that Autrey has, by now, been implanted with a 'media famous chip' without his knowledge.
The 'media famous chip' is an invisible tracking device that alerts journalists of anyone headline-worthy who has jumped a red light, pinched the butt of a female passenger on the metro or hurled racial/religious/treasonous epithets at police officers.
I am likely to be wrong, though. Indeed, I hope I am.
Autry may slip quietly back into facelessness once his one-year subway pass has expired, his $2,500 New York Film Academy start-up scholarship starts educating his kids, he's done Disney World and 'The Lion King' Broadway shows and the invites from David Letterman and Ellen DeGeneres dry up.
Then again, he could cash in on his fame by launching a movie career or his own line of safety helmets.
He could get in with the wrong crowd, watch fame take him to the clouds and then plunge him to the depths as the rot of stardom starts to set in. The media could write the script now.
Then, in an ultimate act of being famous, he punches a paparazzo who dares toCheap sexy clothes take a picture of him and his new fling, a former Playboy bunny who loves him.
The problem with this kind of hero-ship is you really don't have much of a choice do you?
Some geyser falls on to the tracks with a train on its way. What do you do? You hardly have time to mull the downside of being a famous hero. This kid could die! You've just got to save him.