Has there ever been a time when you really had to follow your instinct? When there was no sure, confirmed facts, but you had a gut feeling that was telling you something was happening? If so, have you ever acted on it?

While it was a super scary situation, this one brave man did. And partially because of him, he potentially saved someone’s life. This story could have had a much worse ending if it wasn’t partially for him.

When a man and a woman walked into a gas station, the clerk working the cash register had a weird feeling about the two. Instead of calling the police or asking questions, he simply acted on his instinct.

At first glance, most people would not recognize that there was anything wrong — which you can see in the surveillance footage — but it was actually an alleged crime in process.

Later, police said that the man high-jacked the woman’s car, claiming to have a weapon. Then, he forced her to withdraw money from ATMs around town.

When they walk into the convenience store at the gas station, the man even goes as far as to give the clerk a friendly wave. After they find that they are unable to get cash from the ATM, they head to the counter where the man uses the woman’s credit hard to buy cigarettes.

Here’s where the plot twist comes in, though.

As they leave to exit the store, the clerk comes out from behind the desk and physically inserts himself between the suspicious man and woman. He stops the woman, telling her not to leave the store, while there is footage of the suspect threatening the clerk with his alleged weapon. (While that is not definite, footage shows the suspect reaching into his jacket.) Soon after, he backs off, flees and drives away in the woman’s car.

Now, the woman and the clerk are in the store alone, without the suspect. The clerk offers the woman a bottle of water. Naturally, she is shaken, but she is doing okay. The suspect stole her phone earlier, but police were able to use that to track him down.

“You come behind my back, I help you. No problem,” the clerk later told ABC News.

Because the man had the woman’s phone, police were able to catch up with the suspect later.

The most amazing part of this story though, it that the clerk stopped all of this crime-committing purely based off of a hunch. Not once did he ask the woman if she was okay or if anything was wrong — he just had the feeling in his instinct, acted on it, and took the matter into his own hands. Instead of even giving the suspect the opportunity to shut it down, he got in the middle immediately and handled it the best way he could.

An act like that takes an incredible amount of kindness and most importantly, courage. We are happy to see that there is still a lot of good being done in the world.

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Source: ABC News