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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

TheQuixote

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Bet these two are kicking themselves now

Thai security guards play 'Robin Hood'

Two Thai security guards have been arrested after they allegedly gave away hundreds of dollars' worth of money from a stash of notes they found on a highway.
Preecha Jaiboon, whom the Bangkok Post dubbed a modern day "Robin Hood", spotted the money while he was cycling on Monday, according to the paper.

The money had reportedly fallen from a Securicor van, the back door of which had swung open, the driver said.

He and his friend Somchai Insuwan gave out cash gifts ranging from 300 baht to 50,000 baht at a temple where Mr Preecha had once lived, the paper said.

Police touring the neighbourhood reportedly heard about the benefactors, and on visiting them at Mr Somchai's Bangkok home, found hundreds of thousands of baht stashed there.

The police said they faced a five-year jail sentence.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3444527.stm
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Y'all are a very cynical bunch. If you look at the histories of people who don't return "found" money, you find that they generally have reason to regret it. A case in Philadelphia some years ago, which generated headlines and a TV movie (but what doesn't?), as well as a book (*Finders Keepers,* Bowden) was of an unemployed, nice but undereducated man who found two tubs full of money which literally fell off the back of a truck. The doors on the armored vehicle had not been locked properly and they swung open as the truck went around a corner in an isolated area. The man and his two teen-age companions took the stuff home, and the stress and attrition began at once. Afraid that the serial numbers were on record somewhere, the boys trusted the adult to take the bulk of the money and get it laundered; but he didn't know how to do it and called a guy who knew a guy who involved the mob (only maybe it wasn't the mob) and he kept moving the cashfrom hiding place to hiding place, which involved ever more elaborate home improvement projects. He couldn't stop dropping hints about it and kept subdividing what he kept back from the mob among people he was sure he could trust, for "safekeeping," the mob was lurking (or not), the parents of the teenagers, when they wormed the events out of the boys, immediately moved to protect them...

I won't go through all the details, but he managed to evade jail time, couldn't evade reporters, and hung himself on the eve of the airing of the TV movie that distorted his story.

Oh, I'm smarter than that, you're thinking; but I bet those two Thai cops thought they were, too. Found money is bad juju. If I ever find a wad of cash in the street, I'm phoning the stuff in.
 
Good samaritan has roof cut off car after giving refuge to injured driver
A motorist who allowed a driver hurt in an accident to take refuge in his car after a crash had to endure the sight of firefighters cutting off his roof to remove the injured man.

By Nigel Bunyan
Last Updated: 5:32PM GMT 27 Jan 2009

Sean Carter, 42, was driving through Nottinghamshire when he witnessed a crash in which a Citroen Saxo rolled over three times.

He pulled over, helped the young driver out of the wreckage, and then invited him to sit in his passenger seat to shelter from the cold.

However, when paramedics arrived they said the injured man might have spinal injuries. In case that was so, they needed to get him into their ambulance while in a horizontal position so would need to have the roof removed from car.

Mr Carter, of Ripley, Derbyshire, had to stand by and watch as firefighters used heavy cutting gear to open up his Ford Focus and extract the driver.

"I just watched in horror as the firefighters started smashing the windows in," he recalled.

"They they moved on to the roof. They dissected it at the sides and the back and then folded the roof back onto the bonnet," he recalled.
:shock:

When Mr Carter's car was declared a right-off he expected the injured driver's insurance company to pay out.

But the bill was eventually paid by his own company. As a result he lost his no claims bonus and is still trying to recoup the cost of a hire car. He estimates that he is £1,000 out of pocket. :evil:

It emerged after the accident that the Saxo driver was free of spinal injuries and well enough to leave hospital the following day. :roll:

A spokesman for Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service said the destruction of Mr Carter's car was unavoidable.

"In situations like this we have to remove the injured person horizontally for safety purposes."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... river.html
 
rynner2 said:
"In situations like this we have to remove the injured person horizontally for safety purposes."
Er... aren't they getting their horizontal/vertical mixed up? Surely a vertical removal would entail getting rid of the roof... :roll:
 
I'm starting this thread to contain stories of people who do something 'good' only to be slapped down by fate.

Here's an inaugural specimen ...

ACT 1:
Man buys $540 worth of cookies to get Girl Scouts out of the cold

A man's act of kindness is going viral after he bought $540 worth of Girl Scout cookies to get some kids inside out of the cold.

Kayla Dillard, who manages cookie sales for Troop 1574, said the Girl Scouts were selling cookies outside a Greenville store when the man bought seven boxes of cookies for $40.

Dillard said the man returned moments later and told the girls: "Pack up all of your cookies. I'm taking them all so y'all can get out of this cold."

The man bought a total $540 worth of cookies, Dillard said.

"What an amazing soul. It was about 34 degrees outside that night and we were there for about two hours already before he came," Dillard told CNN. "We all were shocked. The girls were very excited and thankful."

The stranger's act of kindness is going viral, with Dillard's Facebook post being shared thousands of times.

SOURCE: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2019/0...et-Girl-Scouts-out-of-the-cold/5811551196244/

ACT 2:
Man who bought $540 of Girl Scouts cookies is arrested

A South Carolina man who bought more than 120 boxes of Girl Scouts cookies to help the scouts escape the cold has been arrested on drug charges.

News outlets report the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency says 46-year-old Detric Lee McGowan was arrested Tuesday on charges including conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and cocaine. The agency says McGowan is the same man who appeared in a photo that garnered thousands of views and shares online.

Mother Kayla Dillard had shared the photo on Facebook, saying the man paid $540 in cash for all the girls’ cookies so they could escape the cold outside a store near Greenville, South Carolina. She said she didn’t get the man’s name.

An indictment issued last week says McGowan, also known as “Fat,” is one of several suspects in an ongoing drug investigation. It says he and 10 other people conspired to import drugs from Mexico in late 2018. The U.S. Attorney’s Office says authorities are still searching for one of the suspects.

The vice president of recruitment and marketing for Girl Scouts of South Carolina-Mountains to Midlands, Karen Kelly, says the organization will cooperate with authorities. She says in a Tuesday statement that the organization had no reason to believe McGowan was “anything other than one of our valuable customers.”
SOURCE: https://www.apnews.com/ce63e6b16e5c4f29b1dab9c29a7a1177
 
Munchies may or may not have been involved, but the nickname 'Fat' is ironic. Here's a photo of him posing with the Girl Scouts whose cookies he mass-bought ...

Man-buys-540-worth-of-cookies-to-get-Girl-Scouts-out-of-the-cold.jpg
 
lt’s not the best example of the concept, unfortunately.

If he’d spent his last $540 buying the girls’ biscuits, and had then been hospitalised with exposure because he didn’t have the bus fare to get home, then yes.

What we have here is simply:

a) Man buys a lot of biscuits, then;

b) Man is subsequently arrested on unrelated charges.

maximus otter
 
lt’s not the best example of the concept, unfortunately.

If he’d spent his last $540 buying the girls’ biscuits, and had then been hospitalised with exposure because he didn’t have the bus fare to get home, then yes.

What we have here is simply:

a) Man buys a lot of biscuits, then;

b) Man is subsequently arrested on unrelated charges.

maximus otter

Agreed, looking at the thread title, I thought someone was going to accuse him of being a paedophile or something.

Regarding the charges, assuming they are true, even drug dealers can be kind, or at least make a show of it any way, which is what this may be: PR.
 
People who tick the 'bad' box are sometimes capable of genuinely good deeds, just as those who tick the 'good' box are capable of evil. We are a complicated lot.

One important lesson that might be gleaned from the original story: if you're going to be a master criminal - maybe don't plaster your face all over social media.
 
I've known nice drug dealers, especially Gazelle Boy, I wonder what happened to him. He fled the country to avoid a court case, he always dealt at a low level though.

He was called Gazelle Boy because he used to relate a story about a boy raised by gazelles.
 
This Connecticut teacher worked to help families in need during the pandemic and received an unexpected and large tax bill for his efforts.
Pandemic good Samaritan faces hefty tax bill for his efforts

A Connecticut middle school teacher who raised $41,000 to help hundreds of his struggling neighbors during the COVID-19 pandemic got an unwelcome surprise for his charitable efforts: a form stating he could owe $16,031 in income taxes.

Louis Goffinet, 27, of Mansfield, began picking up groceries for elderly neighbors afraid to go to the store during the early days of the pandemic, often spending his own money. Given the great need, he later organized two fundraisers on Facebook over a year and helped hundreds of families with groceries, rent money and holiday gifts, the Hartford Courant reported, setting a $200 limit. ...

Goffinet said both financial support for his efforts and demand for assistance ended up becoming higher than he first expected. He tracked 140 grocery trips on a spreadsheet, noting he also provided Friday night dinners to 125 families, holiday gift cards for 20 families so they could buy gifts for their children, 31 Thanksgiving dinners and rental assistance to five families. ...

In January, Facebook sent Goffinet a 1099 form that stated he owed taxes on the money he had raised. Facebook warns users that money generated from a fundraiser on the social media platform may be taxable if more than $20,000 is raised and that a 1099 tax form will be issued. ...

FULL STORY: https://apnews.com/article/connecti...rus-pandemic-1a54d5ca4736d5dbd9d4810fb394d991
 
This Pennsylvania man found a dropped wallet outside a store. He didn't know what to do with it, so he checked the ID inside the wallet, tracked down the owner via social media, and returned the wallet to her. Meanwhile, the local police were using social media to post this man's image and accuse him of being a wallet thief.
Man’s good deed now a nightmare after Bethlehem Twp. police called him a wallet thief on Facebook

On June 17, the Bethlehem Township Police Department posted photos of a man at a local Walmart and asked for the public’s help in identifying him.

“On June 11, 2022 around 9 pm the depicted male stole a wallet at Walmart, 3926 Nazareth Pike. The male was with two women, and all three left in a red vehicle,” the initial post said on the department’s page, which has 14,000 followers. ...

Those followers got to work, sharing, liking and commenting. Except, when police posted about the crime on June 17, it had been days since the man in the photos returned the clutch to its owner. ...

Asked about the incident and subsequent Facebook posts, township police Chief Gregory Gottschall said the owner of the wallet immediately reported it missing to the police, but did not report that it was returned.

There were mistakes in the initial Facebook post and a follow up post, and now the department is taking steps to correct its mistakes as best they can, he said. ...
FULL STORY: https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/be...ce-called-him-a-wallet-thief-on-facebook.html
 
Five men jumped into a California waterway to rescue an 8-year-old boy in distress. The boy was rescued, and didn't require substantial medical aid. Three of the men didn't make it, and they're still missing.
Three men presumed drowned after rescuing child in California

Three men in California are missing and presumed drowned after jumping into the water to rescue a child, fire crews confirmed Monday.

Rescue crews were called Sunday afternoon to the Three Mile Slough Bridge near Rio Vista, approximately 31 miles northwest of Stockton, Calif. ...

Members of the Rio Vista Fire Department arrived to find three men still in the water after jumping in to rescue the drowning boy.

"The child is reported as rescued," the department said in a post on Facebook. ...

The department used multiple boats to search for the men with no success. At least two other men who initially jumped in to help made it to safety.

The group had been fishing when the men noticed the 8-year-old was in distress and jumped in to help.

The child did not require serious medical care after being rescued.
FULL STORY: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/202...owned-child-rescued-california/2711656969743/
 
This blow-back from a good deed is understandable because the well-intentioned person lied about where she found a stray dog.
Florida woman fined $500 after bringing stray dog to wrong shelter

A Mount Dora woman says she was just trying to do the right thing, bringing a stray dog to the Lake County Animal Shelter.

Now, she's being ordered to pay $500 after the county says she put false information on a form.

"I saw a stray dog in the middle of the road, picked it up, it was the 4th of July," said Hunter File. ...

File says she kept the dog for the night, since the shelters were closed.

The intersection where she found the dog is in Orange County, about a mile south of the Lake County border. ...

When File dropped the dog off at the Lake County shelter, she filled out a form saying she found it there, instead of Orange.

The form did have a warning on it about the penalty for making a false statement.

In August, she was sent a letter telling her she's being fined $500 for using false information.

In part of a statement to FOX 35, Lake County said, "Correct information is critical to providing health services, finding owners who may be searching for the animal, and other responsibilities."

File found out the dog's owner came to pick the dog up after five days at the shelter, only paying about $17 for a microchip. ...

"Speechless," File said. "How? Why? I was trying to do the right thing. Is the dog owner also getting a penalty?"

Hunter File recently had the case heard by a special master at the county who upheld the fine.

Now, she says she has to choose if she's going to pay or continue to fight the fine.
FULL STORY: https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/woman-fined-500-after-bringing-stray-dog-to-wrong-shelter
 
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