Posted on 05/25/2019 5:46:47 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Gregory Beck was on his way to his St. Louis home in his wheelchair when tornado sirens sounded.
Beck lost both of his legs last year and is legally blind, according to CNN affiliate KMOV4. It would normally take him 25 minutes to get back home from the supermarket, and he would need to stop as many as 10 times to rest.
"Everyone kept telling me the storm is coming and you need to hurry up and get home," Beck told the station.
While other drivers honked and yelled at Beck as he tried to cross the street Tuesday and make it up the hill, 16-year-old Seth Phillips and his mother, Amber Gilleylen, stopped their car so Seth could push him the rest of the way home.
"Just the greatest people and very concerned about other people, which America needs to start doing more of," Beck said.
Gilleylen said she recorded the act of kindness to share with her mother and posted it on Facebook. She said she hopes other teens will see that it is cool to stop and help others.
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Good job, Seth....
Good news for a change.
They didn’t rob him.
I have a bad spin on this article. Quite often I read in my local news of someone in a wheelchair or on foot late at night crossing busy streets and getting run over.
Storm or no storm, it’s dangerous out there. Perhaps people were honking at him for his own safety.
I wonder if it would have been a story if a white kid helped him instead ?
Perhaps they were mocking him for being a Honkey
It wasn’t late at night
I think they were honking at him because he was in their way...I, myself, have a prosthetic leg and I have helped severely handicapped people get in and out of their cars and wheelchairs in parking lots because I know what they go through and how it can be difficult...People with no handicaps just look and walk by or go around and offer no assistance...
It would interfere with their precious time to help it seems...
Diversity means that as a society we’re robbed of a common culture that would pull us together:
Too much pluribus, not enough UNUM.
There has been an over 70 year old war on Christianity by the tribe that rules us, shuts down your YouTube and twitter channels over stuff most of us agree on.
We are becoming ATOMIZED, cut off as individuals from one another.
Wonderful. We’re living in an age where common courtesy is treated as a heroic feat.
ABSOLUTELY NOT.
Thing about is there is very little common courtesy anymore...People are too absorbed in their own world...
Not a FR post, but this commercial immediately came to mindw when I read this:
Honestly, the white victimhood mentality that's taken over the past couple years is just as irritating as the black, red, yellow, brown victimhood mentality espoused by those on the left.
Not a FR post, but this commercial immediately came to mindw when I read this:
Honestly, the white victimhood mentality that's taken over the past couple years is just as irritating as the black, red, yellow, brown victimhood mentality espoused by those on the left.
Shocking.
You have to be such a low life to not help.
Boy on his way to becoming a man.
Wish there were more like him.
There are a smattering that get testy at offers of help. Pride, I guess.
It's a lot worse than that. Courtesy is taken as a sign of weakness, that you can be shouldered into a ditch and you will do nothing about it. That's because you are polite.
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