That Made me sad, but then this made me happy

IdrisIdris Posts: 2,317
edited August 2011 in A Moving Train
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... g-boy.html

London riots: thugs filmed robbing injured, bleeding boy

A video appearing to show masked thugs robbing an injured and defenceless boy during the recent riots has been posted online.

After helping up the boy, the thug, together with another man, unzip the distracted youngster’s backpack and begin stealing his belongings.

A third masked youth then arrives on a bicycle and tries to steal items from the injured boy’s bag while a fourth man, wearing a black baseball cap, walks up behind the boy and grabs what he can from the backpack before strolling off.

At least a dozen youths watch on doing nothing while the robbery takes place.

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http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big ... lb-wp15481


One good souvenir deserves another?

That's apparently how this young, shaggy-haired San Francisco Giants fan felt after deftly wrangling a ball off the bat of Pittsburgh's Ryan Doumit(notes) on Tuesday night. After getting control of the ball, he quickly handed it over to an older man in front of him. The boy's family and fans around him greeted the move with a lot of smiles and applause. :)
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I just came across these two articles right after one another and found the contrasting nature of the two vids interesting.
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  • mikepegg44mikepegg44 Posts: 3,353
    that boy had a psp or something like it stolen and Sony replaced it

    http://www.gigwise.com/news/65802/Sony- ... ictims-PSP

    hopefully that makes you smile a little more...fucking clowns out there
    that’s right! Can’t we all just get together and focus on our real enemies: monogamous gays and stem cells… - Ned Flanders
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  • NamiNami Newfoundland Posts: 5,997
    Yeah the world is full of assholes who will get theirs in the end... karma is a bitch.

    keep your chin up and look at the positives in life.... I know sometimes it hard... but push on through.

    Take a listen to Given TO Fly... that song picks me up everytime.

    Cheers,
    Nam
    Hamilton 9-13-05; Toronto 5-9-06, Toronto 8-21-09, Toronto 9-12-11, Hamilton 9-15-11....
  • IdrisIdris Posts: 2,317
    mikepegg44 wrote:
    that boy had a psp or something like it stolen and Sony replaced it

    http://www.gigwise.com/news/65802/Sony- ... ictims-PSP

    hopefully that makes you smile a little more...fucking clowns out there

    Thanks Mr Mikepegg44 for the update. :)
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    Those 'people' who stole from that kid, heartbreaking, They help him up, poor child, broken jaw, dazed, when the boy is at his weakest, they take from him. I know how it feels to be knocked down like that, when it happens, it feels like you lose 90% of your energy, can hardly even get up. I bet all that kid wanted was someone to just lend a hand and help him back home, to his family.

    I tell you brotha, we are capable of so much good, and so much destruction.
  • JeanwahJeanwah Posts: 6,363
    Remember that the news contains mostly negative stories. To find the positive ones, (and there are a lot out there) don't bother expecting to hear about it through the mainstream media. They focus on what's wrong in the world.


    Nami wrote:
    Yeah the world is full of assholes who will get theirs in the end... karma is a bitch.

    keep your chin up and look at the positives in life.... I know sometimes it hard... but push on through.

    Take a listen to Given TO Fly... that song picks me up everytime.

    Cheers,
    Nam

    I agree. :thumbup:
  • chimechime Posts: 7,839
    Idris wrote:
    mikepegg44 wrote:
    that boy had a psp or something like it stolen and Sony replaced it

    http://www.gigwise.com/news/65802/Sony- ... ictims-PSP

    hopefully that makes you smile a little more...fucking clowns out there

    Thanks Mr Mikepegg44 for the update. :)
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    Those 'people' who stole from that kid, heartbreaking, They help him up, poor child, broken jaw, dazed, when the boy is at his weakest, they take from him. I know how it feels to be knocked down like that, when it happens, it feels like you lose 90% of your energy, can hardly even get up. I bet all that kid wanted was someone to just lend a hand and help him back home, to his family.

    I tell you brotha, we are capable of so much good, and so much destruction.

    Another update.

    Members of the public have donated over £22K to help him

    http://somethingniceforashraf.tumblr.com/

    ... and the donation page which is being closed

    http://www.justgiving.com/somethingniceforashraf/

    ... there are also sites to help raise money for lots of others affected at the bottom of the link
    So are we strangers now? Like rock and roll and the radio?
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