Police Officer takes Community Service to the next level..........

[Rouhanibrah]

Idiot.

I understand that, and good for you for being cautious. But not everyone is trying to scam people. There are people who LIVE on the streets. I am talking about those that beg for money with a sign on the side of off ramps.

There are legitimate homeless people out there. And homeless veterans is becoming an empidemic out there. Yes I have a soft spot as well for those who served our country. They need to receive a lot better treatment from our government than they are.

no, just making a joke.
i do good things all the time, get comments from people saying how generous i am. i dont like to brag about it on the internet hoping to get reps

[cardioman_23]

brb cop stole it from the shoe store behind them

[Trinity1216]

I'll keep the scam conversation out of this thread.


On a more happy topic how many of you guys have giving homeless hitchhikers a ride? Pretty scary to be honest.

Thank you! As a female I would never consider giving people a ride. I like to stay safe

I feel like talking about good deeds you do cheapen the goodness of the deed

just do good things and be happy knowing that you may have made someone else a little more comfortable on their stay on this hellscape

I don't think so, the Misc is filled with so much negativity it's nice to see that miscers do have a heart. I like hearing stories of people doing good deeds, it gives me faith in humanity. I don't think anyone here is bragging.

no, just making a joke.
i do good things all the time, get comments from people saying how generous i am. i dont like to brag about it on the internet hoping to get reps

I respect your comment. But receiving reps for something positive is not a bad way to use your rep points.

How many people use them for all the negative stuff or for the lulz on here.

It's the season for giving, lets use our reps for something positive

[Beteroffalone]

Yes but paying for shoes and socks is NOT part of his job. He took his hard earned money and bought him shoes and socks. Don't diminish his good works. What he did was ABOVE and BEYOND his job requirements

I guess I missed that part of the story. Where are you reading this?

[p7nk]

And when the NYPD officer discovered he did not have an ID, he arrested him

[Phrankoff]

mirin'.

i like this stuff.

I always put money in the jar for anyone standing outside of the store. Salvation Army, Community Food Drives, etc.

Once I saw a boyscout asking people to donate non-perishable foods for a local homeless shelter. It was cold outside, bad. The kid was being supervised by his dad for protection but he did all the work/talking. No hate on girl scouts, but those cookies sell themselves this kid had to explain what his goal was. This kid was trying to earn his merit badge for hospitality or something.

Anyway, I acquired a list of items they were in need of. I bought 10 boxes of spaghetti, and 4 large spaghetti sauce jars. Two with meat, two without, in case there were vegetarians. Then I loaded up on canned soup they had on sale maybe 10 cans. All in all I spent about $25-27. Just something inside me told me to do it.

When I went outside to show the I had something I put one box of spaghetti into his collection box. I noticed there were only like 7 items in there total. He kindly said, Thank you! We really appreciate it!

That's when I said, oh wait.. you know what? I forgot something... Then unloaded all the spaghetti boxes one by one. His face was like," Whooaa!"
At this time the father started smiling and thanked me heavily. "That's very nice. That's a nice thing you did."

I told him I used to be a boy scout when I was young and hope to have my future son in them, too. I then told him it was great to see them out there.

As I was walking away, I felt amazing. Like runners high. FeltULTRAfckinggoodman.jpg

[Procta]

its propaganda!

[Trinity1216]

I guess I missed that part of the story. Where are you reading this?

It has made the news and I googled it and saw it on NY news channel website. It even made the news in MN.

[turk75]

I love reading these types of stories.. its seems like nowadays all you read is about corruption and idiot sports stars & celebrities breaking the law.


Thank you to everyone who has made a difference in one's life.. no matter how big or small it was.

[Trinity1216]

mirin'.

i like this stuff.

I always put money in the jar for anyone standing outside of the store. Salvation Army, Community Food Drives, etc.

Once I saw a boyscout asking people to donate non-perishable foods for a local homeless shelter. It was cold outside, bad. The kid was being supervised by his dad for protection but he did all the work/talking. No hate on girl scouts, but those cookies sell themselves this kid had to explain what his goal was. This kid was trying to earn his merit badge for hospitality or something.

Anyway, I acquired a list of items they were in need of. I bought 10 boxes of spaghetti, and 4 large spaghetti sauce jars. Two with meat, two without, in case there were vegetarians. Then I loaded up on canned soup they had on sale maybe 10 cans. All in all I spent about $25-27. Just something inside me told me to do it.

When I went outside to show the I had something I put one box of spaghetti into his collection box. I noticed there were only like 7 items in there total. He kindly said, Thank you! We really appreciate it!

That's when I said, oh wait.. you know what? I forgot something... Then unloaded all the spaghetti boxes one by one. His face was like," Whooaa!"
At this time the father started smiling and thanked me heavily. "That's very nice. That's a nice thing you did."

I told him I used to be a boy scout when I was young and hope to have my future son in them, too. I then told him it was great to see them out there.

As I was walking away, I felt amazing. Like runners high. FeltULTRAfckinggoodman.jpg

That is an amazing story!!!! Thank you for sharing that. That feeling you get when you know you are doing good is amazing.

its propaganda!

Troll





I know you are good guy Procta stop fraudin'

[Trapstar4.4]

thats just awesome. thats a helluva way to represent the badge. We should all do what we can to help out in small ways like that. just when we see something off like that, and we have the power to fix it.

a shoeless/sockless homeless guy in NYC? yeah, nobody deserves that

[Phrankoff]

I feel like talking about good deeds you do cheapen the goodness of the deed
just do good things and be happy knowing that you may have made someone else a little more comfortable on their stay on this hellscape

I agree with this to an extent. Not to be religious but somewhere in school I learned that God values the person who prays in his room alone to the man telling everyone he's goes to church and donates.

However, on a small scale, miscer to miscer I believe its ok. The fact is that I do good deeds for people, but its selfish in my part because the feeling i get helping people makes me feel really good. I don't know if that's right or wrong but in my book, everyone wins.

As a kid when adults told me its better to give than receive I was like, no thanks jeff. But I truly know this feel for the last 5 years. Love making/seeing people happy

[Beteroffalone]

It has made the news and I googled it and saw it on NY news channel website. It even made the news in MN.

In that case I'm legitimately impressed. Not often you see an officer make the news for anything other than beating someone to death, tazing kids, abusing elderly, killing pets etc etc. Good stuff! Will have to book mark this. I'm sure it will be a couple years before I see something like this again.

[CarlMcGuirk]

I don't think so, the Misc is filled with so much negativity it's nice to see that miscers do have a heart. I like hearing stories of people doing good deeds, it gives me faith in humanity. I don't think anyone here is bragging.

I don't think it's bragging, but there's a certain stigma of self-approval that people tend to get out of charitable acts - yes, their actions do benefit someone needy - but there's still something else that tends to motivate most people to do "good," and that's often a feeling of "I do good things for people" that grants you some self-satisfaction. Nothing wrong with it, but it should be recognized that many "selfless" acts have a selfish streak.

[PatrickHenry]

A truly isolated incident.

[Harrock]

I gave a homeless guy a beer the other night as i was leaving the gas station, the guy seemed shocked and proceeded to talk to me for 15 minutes after.

[Phrankoff]

I gave a homeless guy a beer the other night as i was leaving the gas station, the guy seemed shocked and proceeded to talk to me for 15 minutes after.

lulz have done this.

on the way to Cubs games, if we take the train, we pre-game on the train. I usually give my left over beers to homeless people. sometimes they are complete asshoIes about it though and not grateful. whatever

[ticktickytembo]

One of the greatest things you can do in life is help someone else while expecting absolutely nothing in return. No recognition, no favor reciprocated, no praise whatsoever.

"Strive constantly to serve the welfare of the world; by devotion to selfless work one attains the Supreme goal of life. Do your work with the welfare of others in mind."
-Bhagavad Gita

[Trinity1216]

I love reading these types of stories.. its seems like nowadays all you read is about corruption and idiot sports stars & celebrities breaking the law.


Thank you to everyone who has made a difference in one's life.. no matter how big or small it was.

Thank you sir for your service

thats just awesome. thats a helluva way to represent the badge. We should all do what we can to help out in small ways like that. just when we see something off like that, and we have the power to fix it.

a shoeless/sockless homeless guy in NYC? yeah, nobody deserves that

And it's been really cold there as well. I know some of us always complain about how we don't have this or that, I know I am guilty of that at times And then you see something like this were there are people who have so much less than us, and it's a struggle on a day to day basis just to stay alive and I realize how truly blessed my life is.

I agree with this to an extent. Not to be religious but somewhere in school I learned that God values the person who prays in his room alone to the man telling everyone he's goes to church and donates.

However, on a small scale, miscer to miscer I believe its ok. The fact is that I do good deeds for people, but its selfish in my part because the feeling i get helping people makes me feel really good. I don't know if that's right or wrong but in my book, everyone wins.

As a kid when adults told me its better to give than receive I was like, no thanks jeff. But I truly know this feel for the last 5 years. Love making/seeing people happy

Agreed it's among us miscers and like I said in an earlier post, there is so much negativity on here sometimes, I like to hear some positive stories for a change

In that case I'm legitimately impressed. Not often you see an officer make the news for anything other than beating someone to death, tazing kids, abusing elderly, killing pets etc etc. Good stuff! Will have to book mark this. I'm sure it will be a couple years before I see something like this again.

In my first career many moons ago, I was a paramedic for NYC. And believe it or not there are more random acts of kindness from our men/women in uniform than we ever know about.

Unfortunately it's the bad deeds that sell newspapers so that is what the media focuses on.

I don't think it's bragging, but there's a certain stigma of self-approval that people tend to get out of charitable acts - yes, their actions do benefit someone needy - but there's still something else that tends to motivate most people to do "good," and that's often a feeling of "I do good things for people" that grants you some self-satisfaction. Nothing wrong with it, but it should be recognized that many "selfless" acts have a selfish streak.

I don't have issues with people having ulterior motives for the good they do as long as they are doing good.

Personally I have never bragged or made known what I do. I prefer to stay behind the scene. But I will be honest after I retired from a volunteer organization that I was involved with for 6yrs, it felt great when the Pres. sent me an email, stating that they never realized how much I had done for them, that they had to replace my position with 3 other people. No one never knew what I did, never did it for recognition, I just loved helping any way I could.

[PatrickHenry]

this story will never blow up like a police officer hitting a helpless person or something.

Because hitting a helpless person is illegal.

[PatrickHenry]

Yes but paying for shoes and socks is NOT part of his job. He took his hard earned money and bought him shoes and socks. Don't diminish his good works. What he did was ABOVE and BEYOND his job requirements

Sure it was a good thing to do, but Jesus Christ, average citizens do 10x this every day. Woop dee doo.

He probably just grabbed some boots and socks out of the tax-payer funded supply closet.

[Trinity1216]

Sure it was a good thing to do, but Jesus Christ, average citizens do 10x this every day. Woop dee doo.

He probably just grabbed some boots and socks out of the tax-payer funded supply closet.

You know that saying "If you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all"







Come on miscers lets keep this going. Share your positive stories

[Beteroffalone]

Unfortunately it's the bad deeds that sell newspapers so that is what the media focuses on.

And it's the endless supply of bad cops more than eager to provide them with material to focus on.

[Eskimo]

That guy went home threw the boots in the trash then took a shower got dressed hopped into his BMW and went and bought a $55 dollar steak.

lol so much this..."homeless" people in NYC make more money then most miscers

[CrustyLoaf]

It's nice and everything but the poster seems surprised that the officer didn't want anything in return.

It's a homeless man ffs, what could have wanted in return?

[Trinity1216]

It's so sad that people have to continue to post negativity.


This is why we can't have nice things on the misc.


I am disappointed

[syddak1llakyd]

we all bash the bad cops. but respect for this cop.

[PatrickHenry]

You know that saying "If you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all"

I said it was a good thing to do, but you're worshiping the man simply because he's wearing a costume and a gun and has 'authority'.

Millions and millions of good deeds go unnoticed every day, but simply because this was one incident where the cop didn't harrass/beat/arrest the guy, we make a big deal out of it.

What does that tell you about our 'law enforcement' in this country?

And it's the endless supply of bad cops more than eager to provide them with material to focus on.

This.

How many 'isolated incidents' does there need to be before somebody starts pointing out that there is an inherent problem with profit-based policing, and handing UFC wannabe, high school dropouts a badge and a gun and instilling it into their head that they can do what they want behind the badge with little, or no consequences?

[Eskimo]

Sure it was a good thing to do, but Jesus Christ, average citizens do 10x this every day. Woop dee doo.

He probably just grabbed some boots and socks out of the tax-payer funded supply closet.

this also....

oh hey billy i need some size 12 boots, oh ok jim here ya go...then proceeds to give to random guy.

or

they were just some extra boots he already had that he didnt use.

[Airdonis]

When i was younger (about 13) there used to be this guy in my home town that sold the big issue, at christmas i always felt sorry for him as he would stand outside all day and it was ****in freezing. One day, after getting paid for my paperound i took my little sister with me and we went and bought him some cakes and tea from the bakery gave them to him and then paid £10 for one of his big issue magazines. He looked really happy and after that he always used to smile and me and say hello when i rode past him to deliver dem papers!

There also used to be an old lady on my round who looked really frightened and frail everytime she saw me bringing her paper. One time i saw her struggling home with her shopping trolley and offered to help her. We got talking and she invited me in to see her past husbands model boat collection (was worth thousands of pounds) and her dog. Every christmas after that she would always send me a card thanking me for getting her papers to her safely . Feltgoodman.

In general i just try to be a helpful guy, even little things like helping the pt's clear up the gym at the end of the day are appreciated and normally go a long way. No act of kindness is too small!