Friday, November 30, 2012

Believe ...

This just makes me believe in humanity again. A simple act of kindness. A reminder that there are a lot more people out there worse off than we are. My thanks to you NYPD L officer Larry DePrimo, hope we all learn something from him.

NYPD OFFICER'S KINDNESS SPARKS ONLINE SENSATION


NEW YORK (AP) -- A tourist's snapshot of a New York City police officer giving new boots to a barefoot homeless man in Times Square has created an online sensation.


Jennifer Foster, of Florence, Ariz., was visiting New York with her boyfriend on Nov. 14, when she came across the shoeless man asking for change in Times Square.

As she was about to approach him, she said the officer - identified as Larry DePrimo - came up to the man with a pair of all-weather boots and thermal socks on the frigid night. She recorded his generosity on her cellphone.

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