5-year-old boy in Batman costume saves a drowning man

Heroes are not born. They are made in the split second when someone decides to look up. On an ordinary Tuesday evening in New Brighton, Merseyside, a five-year-old boy in a Batman costume became exactly that! Not because the costume gave him superpowers or because he was searching for danger, but because he was simply glancing out of a car window and noticed something everyone else missed: a man disappearing into water on a rapidly vanishing sandbank. Still in his Batman costume after the school dance performance, the young lad stepped up and became a real-life superhero. When he was told he had helped to save that man, five-year-old Lucas replied, “Just like Batman!”How a young boy’s vigilance saved a lifeLucas, five, was returning home after he had played the superhero at his school. The performance was over, the applause had faded, but the character clung to him.