What's the nicest thing you've ever done

[petspoiler]

I offered a homeless, abusive, mentally "off" dad free babysitting for his 7-8 yr old kid, because I was suspicious. not to be nice. LOL.
It took some time to gather details from the kid about their vagabond life & places, working manual labor Ag jobs (kid worked too), not attending school, and what state his mom lived in & part of her name.
I gave all the info to authorities, saying I was sure the dad wasn't supposed to have the kid.
Quick investigation found: dad abducted the kid at 2 yrs old & stayed on the run ever since.
Authorities gave us emergency foster care until mom could fly in state for the kid.
They gave the mom our phone number. she called and just cried & cried, thanking me over & over, talking about all the years of "almost" finding him but they vanished every time. She was terrified that the dad would come to our house & take him again.
I assured her "Honey, we have dogs all around this place, guns if needed & 911 in a tiny town. cops would arrive in minutes. No way he's getting to this boy". but she was so scared, I promised to keep him inside with us at all times :-/
I've never heard such pain and excitement, all mixed together at the same time. It was humbling to hear.
Soon after, we were privileged to put him in a social workers' car, headed for an airport to meet his mom & fly home to Indiana.
He had a birthday party, brother & grandma. and got the thing he told me that he wanted most of all: to go to school.

It was a long time ago, but I'll never forget listening to his mom.

 

[Chub_by]

^ wow...

 

[libayn]

My mothers preacher lost his job and home so i let him and his family live in a 2nd home we have for free until they were back on there feet.now I allow him to pay 150 a month to live there as long as he keeps it cared for.the 150 a month is just enough to cover yearly taxes on it so win win.

 

[aquaman95]

that kid story is sad,amazing,and inspiring...if you have suspicions that somebody is in danger they probably are and you should find help......Just like petspoiler

 

[Dispatch273]

One of the nicest things I've done was saving an old horse from dying. It was in December and the poor old thing was skin and bones, had over grown hooves and poop caked into his rear end. His owner was about to send him off to a livestock auction but I convinced him to let me have him. I got him cleaned up and fattened him up. Once he was healthy(took about 5 months) I found someone to adopt him where he lived out the rest of his life. I miss that old man. I've rescued other houses and animals but he was the worst one. I'll se if I can dig up a picture of him for yoy guys.

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Here is his(Spencer) after picture. Keep in mind that he was 25+ years old. He liked to make funny faces

 

[Allan01230]

When I was in the Coast Gaurd I saved a guy from drowning and the same fool cused me out because I told him the ice was too thin to drive his big 4 wheel truck on a few hours earlier. Incidently he didn't even say thanks.