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Blitzen, yes we have the same problems here in the UK;  both in
urban and mall settings, and out in our beautiful rural areas.
Volunteer groups litter-pick, local councils do what they can -
but ppl just go on & on dropping things and chucking stuff out of
their cars.  I'd like to blame the heat, too - but I don't think global
warming has got quite that effective yet, its still bleedin' cold over
here !  LOL  

North Carolina police officer Charles Ziegler was off duty last week, working at his side job doing security for a local church, when he noticed a mother pushing her child’s stroller in the rain and offered to give her a lift.

By 3 p.m. that afternoon, he was an Internet celebrity.

Ziegler found himself the center of attention when a photo of his kind act was posted to Twitter by Ed McNeal, the director of marketing and communications for the city of Winston-Salem. It was a cold and rainy day, and McNeal was impressed by the officer's thoughtful gesture.

He wasn’t the only one: Within a few hours of McNeal’s tweet, the story had gone viral. A local news station picked up the story, and interest exploded. Since then, Ziegler can’t believe how far his story has spread: he’s been getting phone calls, texts, and Facebook messages from friends and family since the picture went online last Tuesday.


“My phone just blew up Wednesday night,” Ziegler told TODAY.com. “Last night, I got a text message from someone I go to church with and she said I made the news in England.”

While many have praised him for his good deed, he’s the last one to use the word “hero.” He says the moment he’s being praised for was just an average day, as he’s at the church many mornings while parents drop their kids off at the daycare.

“I am not trying to belittle anyone, but I think this story’s been made more than it actually is,” he said. “It’s me giving a lady and her child a ride. I don’t think it’s that big of a deal…Cops across the state and across the nation, they do stuff like this all the time.”

“I’m not surprised at all,” Ziegler’s patrol sergeant, John Coppley, told TODAY.com of the attention the act of kindness has received. “Charlie’s a good guy. [Police officers] do a lot of good stuff, and he helped bring it into the light.”

And what about the other protagonist in this story, the mother out with her child in the rain? Ziegler says he saw her the next morning at church, just the same as every other day.

“We haven’t talked about the story,” he says. “Just the normal ‘Hi, how you’re doing?’"

By Lilit Marcus TODAY contributor
Smiling Times #TimeToSmile

Not sayin' it wasn't very nice of the officer, but is he
allowed to use his police car for his 'side' security job ?
[If this story made it to our news over here, I missed it ...] 

Our local officers in my area all have their own police vehicles. Some of them it's the only vehicle they drive because their wives use the family vehicle.

Noone here has a problem with police having their own vehicle of choice .. most are Ford 4x4's anyhows. (lol)  As a matter of fact, we just had one heck of a fund raiser (one of the police dogs died) and our local police joined us at a farm to consumer event - they stayed with us at the event the entire day. Gave them their own stand free of charge actually. They raised almost $63,000.00 in one day !!  So, now they have enough to buy a good dog and a brand new K-9 vehicle. Now both dogs will have their very own flashy Ford !!!

But ya, like Zeigler, this is how all our local police are around here. That's why it's so unbelievable to me how the rest of americas police are nowadays.

Actually, if people get too drunk at the AMVets, Navy Club or Legion ... all we have to do is call a policeman.  Bypassing the switchboard of course. LOL 

 

I love all my local police.

"Delma Towler reported a burglary at her Altavista, Virginia home and attempted to walk to her sister’s house for safety but was “gunned down like she was an animal or a criminal,” according to her daughter.

A police officer shot and killed an 83-year-old woman in her own backyard.

Delma Towler dialed 911 to report a burglary but when police arrived, one officer killed her outside her home in Altavista, Va.

“It’s not over yet. I’m going to get some justice because our mother did not deserve to die like this … to be gunned down like she was an animal or a criminal,” Towler’s daughter Linda Langford told The News and Advance.

Towler had never fired her gun before that night. She fired a warning shot out the window to scare the burglar off. Then she started walking through her backyard toward her sister’s house. She grasped the gun for protection from the reported intruder — not the police, her family maintains."

I guess next time she won't be firing indiscriminate shots into the dark thru a window at phantom outside anymore.  

I think BabyEagle,
you have strayed from the topic a bit.

 

Ya, I go by the title though.

LOL

Very very sneeky.