Video of the day: T-shirt vendor who spotted NYC carbomb blows off fawning media

This is Lance Orton, the New York City T-shirt vendor who spotted smoke coming from an SUV abandoned near Times Square and alerted the police; the police then discovered an (amateurish) carbomb inside it, and were able to carry out a controlled detonation. It's hard not to find his attitude to the fawning media badgering him for quotes refreshing:

Readers of James Fallows'

Readers of James Fallows' blog raise an interesting point ... what if this happened in britain?

http://is.gd/bUYEc

I've also discovered another hero surnamed Orton. I think it's a comparison worth making.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adm_GzUOVjU

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