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Aha! Bet ya didn’t see that one coming. I hope you were half as thrilled as I was when I came across this story, as I let out an audible gasp when I read a Florida Man headline that was not only positive but legitimately heroic! It’s like finding a pack of Starbursts with an extra red or a one night stand that ends with both parties fully satisfied — it just doesn’t happen very often in this life.

So, when it does happen, fuckin’ A man, we’re celebrating, we’re shouting it from rooftops, we’re popping champagne bottles (although I’d imagine Florida Man prefers Busch Light) — especially when you consider the shenanigans Florida Man’s been up to this summer prior to this moment of heroic clarity.

In the past couple weeks alone, Florida Man has told a police officer the drugs all over his nose *weren’t* his, swallowed 20 crack rocks before leading police on a 60-mile chase, jumped a river in his Nissan Versa, followed around a homeless man to make sure no one gave him any money, and drunkenly threw his 5-year-old son into the ocean to teach him to swim. That’s essentially the Florida Man equivalent of hitting for the cycle.

But if we’re gonna hammer him for the negatives, it’s only fair that we show equal love to the positives.

According to CBS 4 Miami, 64-year-old Florida Man Alan Potrzuski is being hailed as a hero after he rushed into a burning home to save the life of his neighbor.

Potrzuski said his neighbors were yelling for their “grandma” to not run back into the house, but he said she went inside anyway. According to Broward Sheriff’s Fire Rescue, Potrzuski put on a re-breather mask he uses for his job as a pest control technician and rushed next door with a fire extinguisher in hand. He located the fire in the kitchen dishwasher and began fighting the flames. By the time emergency responders arrived, they said most of the fire was put out and Potrzuski and his elderly neighbor were safely outside. [CBS 4 Miami]

It just goes to show that there are two sides to everyone’s coin, even Florida Man.

One day he’s huffing glue before stripping naked on the Daytona Beach boardwalk and challenging pregnant women to jello wrestling matches, the next he’s pulling a Superman and saving the whole ass day. Only in America, and particularly, Florida.