Cop's Act of Kindness Toward Shoplifting Grandma

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When Tarrant, Alabama Police Officer William Stacy was called to the Dollar General store on Saturday, December 6, he wasn’t especially surprised. “We get shoplifting calls at Dollar General all the time,” he tells Yahoo Parenting. “Usually people are stealing things like makeup or phone chargers – not things they need to get by.”


So when Stacy arrived to find 47-year-old Helen Johnson stealing eggs to feed her two daughters, her niece, and two young grandkids, he knew this incident was different. Johnson explained to Stacy that her family hadn’t eaten since Thursday. So instead of making an arrest, the officer, 23, bought Johnson a carton of eggs. “When she mentioned the kids and said they were hungry, that’s when I knew I wanted to buy the eggs,” Stacy says. “No matter what financial situation kids are in, it’s not their fault they’re hungry.”



Johnson tried to give Stacy the $1.25 she had in her pocket for the eggs, which cost $1.75 plus tax, but instead he asked only for a promise she wouldn’t shoplift again. Johnson told local news AL.com that she was shocked by the officer’s good deed. “I was like ‘Oh my God, thank you Jesus for this man,” she said. “He is my hero.”

The act of kindness was caught on video by another customer, Robert Tripp, and posted to Facebook, where it was been viewed more than 966,000 times and has received more than 22,000 likes. It has been shared nearly 13,000 times.

Read more at: www.yahoo.com/parenting/cops-act-of-kindness-toward-shoplifting-grandma-105274449522.html

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Thanks for posting this. I saw that story too and thought it would be

something nice to read for posters who hadn't seen it.

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If I knew this family hadn't eaten in days, I would have bought them a hell of a lot more than $1.75

worth of eggs, but that's just me...

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Dec 15, 2014 23:22:18 GMT -5 weltschmerz said:

If I knew this family hadn't eaten in days, I would have bought them a hell of a lot more than $1.75

worth of eggs, but that's just me...

Sounds like he worked to get them hooked up with the right people....