NYPD officer Buys and Gives Homeless Man a pair of Boots !

[Switchy]

Christmas Season is not getting but giving .

I read this article as many over the news !  And thought about the true meaning of Christmas.  With diabetes, my feet are always cold,  I could only imagine how it would be to have something on my feet to keep them warm. 

Need not say more .

Merry Christmas , and do what you can. I am going to.   

[Mikekoz13]

I saw this story the other day. Just an incredible act of kindness toward another human being.

[Blitzed]

Unfortunately, the story continues.....

It evolves that the man isn't homeless, he has an apartment paid for by Section Eight and some other programmes. Two days after this story broke, he was found again shoeless telling officers that he had "hid" them to make him less than a target, that, wearing them, he was "afraid".

Another Day Passes.

He now has demands, he wants a "piece of the pie" meaning that he's tired of the good officer getting all the publicity and, now, the lady who took  the picture; He wants rights, he wants....wait for it...to be compensated for his troubles. And, I've little doubt, one of the publicity seeking junky lawyers is certainly on his/her wait to explain to the throbbing media that they are somehow to blame for all this and that only money-why not ask for a trip to DisneyLand while you're making demands-will make him feel better.

And now we know how the expression, "No good deed goes unpunished" came into our lexicon of true sayings that sound bad.

[tomgallagher]

The road to Hades is paved with good intentions.

[D.A.L.U.I.]

Unfortunately, the story continues.....

It evolves that the man isn't homeless, he has an apartment paid for by Section Eight and some other programmes. Two days after this story broke, he was found again shoeless telling officers that he had "hid" them to make him less than a target, that, wearing them, he was "afraid".

I think this cynicism is misplaced.  The admirable act of love & charity in giving the shoes is the point and lesson--it matters not that the recipient of the act was unworthy, or more charitably mentally unstable. One deserves our thanks as a community, the other deserves our concern for what drove him to act that way.   

[schro]

Unfortunately, the story continues.....

It evolves that the man isn't homeless, he has an apartment paid for by Section Eight and some other programmes. Two days after this story broke, he was found again shoeless telling officers that he had "hid" them to make him less than a target, that, wearing them, he was "afraid".

I think this cynicism is misplaced.  The admirable act of love & charity in giving the shoes is the point and lesson--it matters not that the recipient of the act was unworthy, or more charitably mentally unstable. One deserves our thanks as a community, the other deserves our concern for what drove him to act that way.   

Two separate stories under the same headline:
1) The police officer's generous act should take top blling.
2) The ungratefulness and attempt to gain from the officer's act by a (non) homeless man is deplorable.

[slymyke]

This impostor/opportunistic fake homeless guy can get his share of glory when he takes money out of his pocket and buys shoes for an actual homeless person!      

[Switchy]

Thanks for the update people like this guy ruins so much for people that really need it.

[Plano]

thats why us new yorkers never know which hobo is telling the truth and which one is using the "homeless act" as a means of income. This bum is already on Social Security income, which...I hope....gets YANKED out from under him after he hasn't reported all of his pan handling income.
People like him make me sick.

Bought a sandwich for a homeless guy the other day and he asked me if I had money as well. Give me a break.

[mrzed]

The real scam is the judges and juries who decide cases in FAVOR of these folks milking the system. Shame on them.

[Blitzed]

This should be the story that resonates with people when discussions about entitlements come up. According to accounts since I first posted my comment reveal that the police in several jurisdictions in the city were familiar with him and his "no shoes" routine. That said, the officer wasn't an innocent had by a trickster, he was doing what he thought was right and proper and humane. George Bernard Shaw in "Pygmalion" referred to the "Undeserving Poor" and that's what we're looking at. It's no shame to be finanacially disadvantaged, to have fallen on hard times but it's not only a shame but a crime to exploit a created situation for profit. As an example see a YouTube excerpt from "60 Minutes" about family courts in New York.  One grandmother was receiving thousands for caring for a largely fictitious family. When asked where the money had gone she explained she was building a home in Puerto Rico.

[tomgallagher]

I think we should concentrate on the fact that there are still really good people with good hearts in this world.

[Switchy]

I think we should concentrate on the fact that there are still really good people with good hearts in this world.

I would have to agree Tom, it is like when money is found and returned.  I will admit that I look closer when I try and help  someone out.

[Blitzed]

Absolutely, we should concentrate on the decency and the humanity that this displays. What dirties it will be the attorneys for the "homeless" man who will try and justify his fraud and, I'm sure, try to find a way to get monies, first for themselves and, just incidentally, for their client.

What's frightening is that in his mind, the shoeless man feels and will always feel that he's the aggrieved party. Part of how he got to his circumstances is that he sees himself as a victim that is in perpetuity "owed" something.

What makes me truly sad is that the good officer is getting overlooked in the now negative story of greed and poor behaviour. Send him, and his family, to DisneyWorld. We forget what the police have to see everyday and, when they're moved to this degree, it reveals that there is ground level truth in the expression, "To Protect and To Serve".

[imaginary]

I know it sounds ironic, but I feel sorry for that homeless person. I know of a homeless person in my neighborhood who owns a three apartment house with two terraces, and five garages filled with garbage. He sleeps in his van. Stuff like this make me wonder what issues my neighbor, and this person have to actually prefer such a lifestyle