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A Feel Good story for the Festive season - New York Cop buys homeless man some shoes

  • 04-12-2012 12:50PM
    #1
    AudreyHepburn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭


    http://blogcritics.org/culture/article/cop-buying-homeless-man-shoes-a/

    As the title says this is just s feel-good story for the festive season. A young cop in NY was caught on camera purchasing a pair of shoes for an elderly homeless man. The photo has now gone viral.

    Little acts of kindness like this are so few and far between and they remind that amid the constant doom and gloom and moaning about this, that and the other there is still goodness and reasons to smile.


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  • #2
    El Guapo!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,450 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    He probably sold them again for crack.


  • #3
    DesperateDan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,510 ✭✭✭DesperateDan


    He was reportedly seen again by multiple American reporters going mental over this story, only without the shoes again :(


  • #4
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    The story is good for the sole.


  • #5
    Scioch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,249 ✭✭✭Scioch


    Cop probably done him an hour later for possession of stolen property. Little shít trying to make a name for himself.


  • #6
    TouchingVirus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,581 ✭✭✭TouchingVirus


    Is this another psychology experiment for Boards?


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  • #7
    Spiritual
    Closed Accounts Posts: 491 ✭✭Spiritual


    Saw this on Fox News, the cop went into a Skechers story to purchase a pair of all weather boots. The store manager let the cop use his store discount reducing the cost from $100 to $45. Strange that the store didn't just give the boots, this would have came across as kindness rather than how I perceived it as minimising loss.


  • #8
    TouchingVirus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,581 ✭✭✭TouchingVirus


    Spiritual wrote: »
    ...The store manager let the cop use his store discount reducing the cost from $100 to $75...

    FYP


  • #9
    fullstop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 12,719 ✭✭✭✭fullstop


    Dean09 wrote: »
    He probably sold them again for crack.

    You mean the craic?


  • #10
    Spiritual
    Closed Accounts Posts: 491 ✭✭Spiritual


    TouchingVirus wrote: »
    FYP

    Thanks, makes it worse. :)


  • #11
    BUBBLE WRAP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,186 ✭✭✭BUBBLE WRAP


    I hope they aglet him wear them now..

    EDIT: Nobody gets my pun? :(


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  • #12
    Scioch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,249 ✭✭✭Scioch


    Spiritual wrote: »
    Saw this on Fox News, the cop went into a Skechers story to purchase a pair of all weather boots. The store manager let the cop use his store discount reducing the cost from $100 to $45. Strange that the store didn't just give the boots, this would have came across as kindness rather than how I perceived it as minimising loss.

    I'm sure they would have if they knew it was going to get so much attention. But I dont think it fair to criticise them for chipping in on Mr Coppers good deed.


  • #13
    AudreyHepburn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭AudreyHepburn


    A little surprised at the cynicism on display here.

    Can we not just see this for what it is....a small act of kindness in a world and a time where most people are only interested in themselves and their problems and willingly ignore those far worse off than themselves.


  • #14
    Scioch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,249 ✭✭✭Scioch


    AudreyHepburn wrote: »
    A little surprised at the cynicism on display here.

    Can we not just see this for what it is....a small act of kindness in a world and a time where most people are only interested in themselves and their problems and willingly ignore those far worse off than themselves.

    Its never enough though. Cop buys shoes, he's a hero. People now want everyone to be hero's, why didnt the store give away the shoes ? Why didnt everyone else chip in and buy him a suit ? If the cop didnt do anything nobody would give a shít about the homeless man with no shoes.


  • #15
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Scioch wrote: »
    Its never enough though. Cop buys shoes, he's a hero. People now want everyone to be hero's, why didnt the store give away the shoes ? Why didnt everyone else chip in and buy him a suit ? If the cop didnt do anything nobody would give a shít about the homeless man with no shoes.

    What are you on about?


  • #16
    Scioch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,249 ✭✭✭Scioch


    Billy Dazzling Clergy wrote: »
    What are you on about?

    About the criticism of the store not giving the shoes away and only selling them at a discount. Small acts are never enough in these stories and people usually look around where more could have been done rather than what still can be done.


  • #17
    Scioch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,249 ✭✭✭Scioch


    Homeless guy says he hid the boots cos they were too expensive to be wearing.

    http://www.thejournal.ie/homeless-ny-man-barefoot-again-despite-officer-buying-him-boots-700658-Dec2012/


  • #18
    Mr. Manager
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,139 ✭✭✭✭Mr. Manager


    In fairness, it's AH. This place is filled with about 89% miserable keyboard warriors.

    This is always the way these threads go. Someone does something nice and then some asshole comes along and dissects the post and makes a spin on it to make the "hero" appear not so "hero like".

    The guy did a good thing. Give it a rest.


  • #19
    El Guapo!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,450 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    Cereal Rapist wrote: »
    In fairness, it's AH. This place is filled with about 89% miserable keyboard warriors.

    Pretty specific number there Cereal! :D


  • #20
    Scioch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,249 ✭✭✭Scioch


    Dean09 wrote: »
    Pretty specific number there Cereal! 😄

    1% margin of error maybe ?


  • #21
    Mr. Manager
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,139 ✭✭✭✭Mr. Manager


    Dean09 wrote: »
    Pretty specific number there Cereal! :D

    I'm good with numbers. Like rainman, only, not quite as retarded.


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  • #22
    Vojera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,812 ✭✭✭Vojera


    Does this make anyone else think of the worst Christmas song ever: Christmas Shoes?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJcPVB-we7g


  • #23
    TheFisherKing
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 69 ✭✭TheFisherKing


    AudreyHepburn wrote: »
    A little surprised at the cynicism on display here.

    Can we not just see this for what it is....a small act of kindness in a world and a time where most people are only interested in themselves and their problems and willingly ignore those far worse off than themselves.

    Nonsense, you deliberately started this thread to annoy the cynics of this forum, knowing full well that we are unable to see good in humanity!

    Thread reported for baiting.


  • #24
    Emeraldy Pebbles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 787 ✭✭✭Emeraldy Pebbles


    Scioch wrote: »
    Cop probably done him an hour later for possession of stolen property. Little shít trying to make a name for himself.

    Wha'? :confused:


  • #25
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    'Hid' the shoes did he?

    Yeah right.


  • #26
    Madam_X
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,327 ✭✭✭Madam_X


    Not saying this in a "Look at me I'm so jaded and cynical and cool" way but I heard it was a stitch-up - that the homeless guy is known for pulling stunts like this for tourists.


  • #27
    Spiritual
    Closed Accounts Posts: 491 ✭✭Spiritual


    I am not criticising the cop.
    Anyone that saw the Fox News report will see that Sketchers milked it for all it was worth when it was the store manger that used his discount.


  • #28
    AudreyHepburn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭AudreyHepburn


    Madam_X wrote: »
    Not saying this in a "Look at me I'm so jaded and cynical and cool" way but I heard it was a stitch-up - that the homeless guy is known for pulling stunts like this for tourists.
    Spiritual wrote: »
    I am not criticising the cop.
    Anyone that saw the Fox News report will see that Sketchers milked it for all it was worth when it was the store manger that used his discount.

    Both of these could well be the case, though I've seen no proof of either.

    However can we not let these get in the way of what that young cop did. His good deed should not be made any less of regardless of how any of the others involved acted.


  • #29
    HeyThereDeliah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 967 ✭✭✭HeyThereDeliah


    When I seen it i thought it was a kind gesture, have not read anything about it since but no harm done regardless of the background to it.
    It's Christmas a feel good story is good for the soul.


  • #30
    risteardb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 80 ✭✭risteardb


    AudreyHepburn wrote: »
    A little surprised at the cynicism on display here.

    Can we not just see this for what it is....a small act of kindness in a world and a time where most people are only interested in themselves and their problems and willingly ignore those far worse off than themselves.

    What this story really is, is kind hearted cop taken for a fool when he came across this man wearing no shoes, the Cop did the charitable thing and spending his own money on a con man, and that's all the homeless man was..... after this story broke, this (homeless man???) was found again with no shoes pulling the same stunt again....

    This is absolutely shameful, seems that some people take advantage of decent people who do want to help people low on luck..... "Wonder how many pairs of shoes has this homeless man accumulatedy by now?"


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  • #31
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Not to be too cynical, what the cop did was good-natured but I've often heard of homeless people pulling these sort of stunts by not wearing any shoes, as well.

    I'm sure American cops need an image like this, considering the past few years have been unrelenting videos of police individuals battering people / over-excessive force and getting into trouble.


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