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Bump. Well-trained and responsible agent of the state with a firearm saves two deer from a slow and nasty death:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/ ... -1.5449058

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A sharp-shooting fish and wildlife officer is being credited for saving two deer who locked antlers near Calgary.

Shelley Wright says her husband Russ was driving home on Tuesday when he spotted two deer struggling in a field just south of Spruce Meadows.

"It didn't look right, and the more he watched, he realized they were locked together," she said.

He called fish and wildlife, and officer Scott Kallweit responded.

Kallweit realized he couldn't tranquilize the animals, Wright said, as tranquilizing one would likely injure the other.

So, he took out his shotgun, steadied himself, and fired — hitting the antlers and safely separating the two deer.

Cool video too. Great work, officer.

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Ed W. "Too Tall" Freeman (November 20, 1927 – August 20, 2008) was a United States Army helicopter pilot who received the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in the Battle of Ia Drang during the Vietnam War. During the battle, he flew through gunfire numerous times, bringing supplies to a trapped American battalion and flying dozens of wounded soldiers to safety. Freeman was a wingman for Major Bruce Crandall who also received the Medal of Honor for the same missions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Freeman

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RIP Captain Freeman.

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California cop rescues twin girls, 2, after dad drives off cliff, police say

A San Diego cop is being hailed a hero after saving twin girls, 2, and their father after their car fell from a cliff into water.

Jonathan Wiese, a San Diego Police K-9 Officer, was on duty when he heard a plea for help over police scanners at around 5 a.m. on Saturday morning.

"Male subject left his house with his twin two-year-old daughters, was possibly armed with a gun and threatening suicide by driving his truck off the Coronado Bridge," Wiese told NBC San Diego, recalling what he heard that day.

As Wiese rushed to the scene, he witnessed the car speeding through Point Loma, plunging from the side of Sunset Cliffs and landing in the Pacific Ocean.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/ca ... r-BB15zKtM

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It's month old news, but I think Captain Tom Moore deserves mention in this thread.

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A British army veteran who shuffled the length of his garden 100 times to raise funds for the National Health Service is to be honoured with a knighthood.

Tom Moore received a special nomination for the honour from Prime Minister Boris Johnson, just weeks after he raised 33 million pounds (US$40 million) for completing the challenge to mark his 100th birthday. His simple determination and promise that "tomorrow will be a good day!" cheered a nation in lockdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/britis ... -1.4945579

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Bump, because the only thing of real value in this sad world is kindness.

Storage Wars As It Should Have Been: Teen buys repossessed storage units, gives contents back to owners

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Shane Jones was looking to earn a little extra cash last summer when he stumbled upon YouTube videos explaining how to make money in a way he didn’t know existed: Buying the contents of repossessed storage units.

When renters stop paying the monthly fee, everything inside a storage unit can be put up for auction.

The videos explained how to bid online for the contents, sight unseen. Shane thought it would be like a treasure hunt of sorts.

“It seemed like something fun to do. I had some money I’d saved from working in a used bookstore,” said Shane, 16, who lives in Wakefield, R.I., and often goes to yard sales in search of bottles and coins to collect, as well as hidden items of value to sell.

He found an auction in nearby Providence in August and put in a bid of $100 on the contents of a storage unit.

Shane was surprised when he won, he said, but when he went to his newly acquired unit, he realized right away that he shouldn’t keep the items.

As he sorted through the household goods, stuffed animals and personal mementos, he remembers feeling sad – especially when he found documents belonging to the original owner.

“I realized then that this wasn’t the same as getting stuff at a yard sale,” Shane said. “This guy was in prison, and his storage unit was auctioned off because he couldn’t afford to pay for it. This was probably everything he had left.”

Shane’s parents, Patrick Jones and Sarah Markey, said they were more than happy to help him track down the man’s mother at a retirement home in Providence, then went with him to drop off the belongings.

“I called her up and offered to give her everything,” Shane said, adding that she was elated to have it all.

Shane said he was so inspired by the woman’s grateful reaction that he decided to enter other auctions with the hope of giving back the units’ contents.

A few months later, in October, Shane had saved enough money to bid on a second storage unit. His winning bid was $50.

This time, while loading dishes, photo albums, knickknacks and books into his dad’s car, he found an address book in one of the boxes.

“The couple who rented the locker had passed away, but there was a phone number for their brother-in-law, and he was happy to come out and get everything,” he said. “He said there were a lot of family heirlooms that could have been lost.”

Then, in January, Shane won his third bid, also for $50. He found the renter’s name on some items in the storage unit and tracked her down in Connecticut.

He and his parents learned that the woman had lost her job, which was why she had fallen behind on renting the unit, he said. She had also lost a child to sudden infant death syndrome three years earlier.

“All of her baby items and all of her childhood photos were in the storage locker,” Shane said.

He and his parents carefully arranged the items on their front porch in January when the woman came to pick them up.

“She started to cry and said everything she had to remind her of her baby was in that locker, and she just didn’t have the finances to keep up with the payments,” he said.

Shane didn’t expect that anyone would find out about his new pastime, but then word got out in late April at South Kingstown High School, where he attends. School district officials posted about his generosity on Facebook and local television stations began calling.

“We’re delighted to see one of our students doing such a wonderful thing,” said South Kingstown Principal Chip McGair.

Shane’s mom said the attention has been a little overwhelming for her son.

“But he also realizes that kindness inspires kindness,” said Markey, 40. “Buying the contents of a storage unit and giving them back is a creative way to pay it forward. Shane hopes that somebody else will get the idea to do the same thing in their own town.”

And now, Shane said, he’s looking for a fourth unit to bid on.

“I started out thinking that bidding at a storage auction was kind of like a yard sale, but now I know that’s not true,” he said. “These people didn’t choose to give me this stuff. They didn’t have a choice. It’s almost like a duty to give it back.”

This kid doing something this good doesn't surprise me at all. There's probably billions of people on this planet who'd do similar sorts of things as well if they had the resources themselves to act in a like manner. What gets me, and always will too, is the people sitting around on piles and piles of money and who have the associated power to do something, but simply won't act in any way to improve the world. Or even just to make life a bit less shitty and sad for someone in despair. Power unused for good is simply power that's been completely wasted.

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After seeing "help wanted" signs outside restaurants on B.C.'s Sunshine Coast for weeks on end, a group of nine retirees decided to step in and fill the vacancies on a volunteer basis.

Brian Coxford, one of the volunteers, said he first realized the extent of the problem when strolling the Sechelt beachfront, noting many businesses were closed because they didn't have enough staff to open.
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That's where Coasters Helping Coasters comes in. The group of nine golfing friends, including Coxford, initially came together to support two coastal businesses.

The group approached the Sechelt Downtown Business Association to offer up their services and were matched with struggling businesses.

The volunteers are rolling up their sleeves and tackling four-hour shifts as servers, dishwashers, doing whatever they can to help.

According to volunteer Joe Sawer, the group now has 25 volunteers and is helping out seven restaurants.

Instead of being paid for their service, Coasters Helping Coasters asked each establishment to donate their paycheques to Habitat for Humanity or the local food bank.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british- ... -1.6156832

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It goes without saying it's a tough time to be working in the service industry — and it's led one British Columbia restaurateur to decide that it's time to pack it in and send his staff home.

But not for good.

After watching his staff work under stressful pandemic conditions since spring 2020, Senor Froggy owner Rob Stodola is giving them a week off with pay to rest and recharge, starting Sept. 13.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british- ... -1.6169716

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