VIDEO: New Zealand Man Saves Roller Coaster Rider's Phone

A man’s quick hands saved a rider’s phone that went flying during a roller coaster ride.

New Zealander Samuel Kempf was visiting Tarragona, Spain, for a July fistball tournament. He was enjoying a day at PortAventura World theme park with his family when he decided to try the roller coaster, Shambhala. As Kempf was enjoying the ride, he noticed someone’s phone nearly go flying and managed to catch it.

His quick action was caught on the ride’s camera and quickly made its way online.

“The guy two rows ahead of me, as the ride started doing its ascent before it drops, he had his phone out and he dropped it and it just landed at the bottom of his cart,” Kempf told the Dominion Post, the newspaper in Wellington, New Zealand. “He was trying to reach down and grab it but because he was locked in he couldn't reach it and I just jokingly said to my brother and the people we were with 'get ready to catch.’”

He continued, explaining he saw it start to drift out of the cart, so he just “reached out and managed to catch it.” Kempf held onto the phone for the rest of the ride and returned it to the owner afterward.

"He couldn't believe it, he gave me a big hug," Kempf said of the rider.

As of Friday afternoon, the video had nearly 2,275,000 views on YouTube.