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Al T.
12-22-2014, 02:14 AM
Sadly, this will never go mainstream, but what a heck of a Christmas story!


CHESTER --- Alex Collins was crushed. His dreams, broken.

"I hope you pick me to go," the 9-year-old son of a single mother in Chester County wrote in a heartbreaking letter to the Chester County sheriff. Alex wanted more than anything to go hunting with the sheriff.

"I don't have anyone to teach me," he wrote. "It's just me and my mom, and she's too sick to do stuff."

Problem was, Alex lives in Chester County, Pa. --- some 600 miles northeast of where Sheriff Alex Underwood had offered to take local kids hunting and fishing near his home in Chester County, S.C.

In spite of the mix-up, big-hearted cops in both states are making Alex's dream come true.

Alex, who has never been on an airplane, will hunt and fish with Underwood on Dec. 29 --- and cops are paying for the whole trip.

When Alex and his mom saw Underwood's post on Facebook, asking kids to write to him if they wanted to go fishing or hunting, Alex immediately wrote a letter to the sheriff.

His letter --- along with one each from mom Leslie Collins and Alex's teacher, testifying to what a great kid Alex is --- was hand-delivered to the Chester County Sheriff's Office in West Chester, Pa.

"But nobody ever heard of Sheriff Underwood when I went to the police station," Alex said.

Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/2014/12/19/3884045_pennsylvania-boy-sends-letter.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy




http://www.thestate.com/2014/12/19/3884045_pennsylvania-boy-sends-letter.html?rh=1

BaiHu
12-22-2014, 09:20 AM
Like!

RoyGBiv
12-22-2014, 09:36 AM
http://www.thestate.com/2014/12/19/3884045_pennsylvania-boy-sends-letter.html?rh=1
Al Sharpton is planning a protest to protect the Bambi's.

"Furry lives matter"
"What do we want?" "Tofu"
"When do we want it?" "Now"

Chuck Haggard
12-22-2014, 09:57 AM
Awesome story. Thanks for posting.

Shellback
12-22-2014, 03:39 PM
Cops being cops... (http://www.kutv.com/news/features/local-news/stories/Rush-to-see-gravely-ill-son-lands-woman-in-a-UHP-escort-62012.shtml)


Helen "Skeeter" Smith got the dreaded phone call---her son, Randy, was gravely ill in the hospital.

So Helen, 87 years old, hopped in her car in southern Nevada on Friday, jumped on I-15, and started heading north for a 350 mile trip to Ogden.

In central Utah, she "buzzed past" a Utah trooper, who pulled her over and gave her a warning. "He was all nice," said Helen. "Oh yeah, he was just doing his job."

Then Helen had perhaps the best accident she could have hoped for; instead of pulling forward to ease onto the interstate, she put her car in reverse and hit Trooper Jeff Jones' patrol car.

"I put a little dent in his car," she said. She also told Trooper Jones the reason why she was making the trip.

But that little dent convinced the trooper it wasn't safe for her to continue her journey, so he had her car moved to a secure location, and gave her a ride from Fillmore to Juab County.

There, he handed Helen off to Trooper Jared Jensen, who drove her to Utah County.

Jensen handed her off to Trooper Chris Bishop, who drove her to Salt Lake County.

There, Trooper Andrew Pollard met her in Draper, and drove Helen all the way to Ogden Regional Medical Center.

"She was very excited to tell me about her dogs, her cat, and her hometown," said Pollard, who is new to the Utah Highway Patrol. "To hold her hand walking into the hospital was very, very rewarding."

After Helen saw how busy the freeway is on a Friday night, she was grateful to the chauffeurs.

"I ended up taking four patrol cars," she said. "Four good-lookin' patrol boys brought me."

Helen made it to the hospital to see her son. He is not doing well, but treatment is continuing; and a mother with undying love for her son said he's also been able to express his love.

Update: The son of Helen Smith passed away on December 14th. RIP

Shellback
05-01-2015, 01:14 PM
Nice work by the officers.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=errOr4_gb5A

Totem Polar
05-01-2015, 07:56 PM
Cops being cops... (http://www.kutv.com/news/features/local-news/stories/Rush-to-see-gravely-ill-son-lands-woman-in-a-UHP-escort-62012.shtml)



Update: The son of Helen Smith passed away on December 14th. RIP
Still a great story.