Posted on 12/11/2022 8:15:59 AM PST by lowbridge
A Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, liquor store employee named Ta Leia Thomas, also known as Ace, is being praised for her touching act of kindness.
The moment was captured on camera: A man was digging through the trash before putting boxes on his feet because he had no shoes, WCCO reported Saturday.
When Thomas saw what was happening, she knew exactly what to do and removed her own shoes, right there in the doorway of Brooklyn Center Liquor.
“This was not just a regular old pair of shoes. Ace, being a Minnesota Vikings fan, had on her favorite pair of purple Nike Air Jordans which she gave to the man with zero hesitation. This is a true example of empathy, compassion, and holiday cheer. We can all appreciate a story like this during the holiday season,” the store told followers in an online post Wednesday.
“We applaud Ace for her selflessness and her willingness to help those in need!” the post continued.
Thomas’ kind heart guided her decision, and she said the man told her no one would ever have given him such a gift.
“And I said, ‘Well I’m not everybody.’ And he was like. ‘Thank you so much,’ and I see him walking away and he’s walking away with pride,” she continued.
Even though it was her favorite pair of shoes, Thomas said she did not mind.
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Mental hospitals with a street drug detox wing would help.
No one is going to hire a crazy person that smells like feces.
It’s not a binary choice. Some need a little time and help, and some probably need lifelong institutional care. There’s tons that don’t want help and some do.
It’s not an easy problem or solution. That’s why it just propagates.
I’ve never been a homeless bum, but I assume it doesn’t take much to lift their spirits.
The person giving the shoes assumes he walks away with pride, but that is a big assumption.
We tend to help people in our assumption, maybe not the way they want to be helped and MOST DON’T WANT TO BE HELPED.
There is a saying, “Why do you hate me, I never tried to help you.”
Now, having said that, 1 in 100 does need some help and wants help, how do you find that one?
There’s no such thing as a free pair of shoes. Robert Heinlein updated
Give a man a fish and you’ll feed him for a day
Teach a man to fish and he’ll be paying-back his student loans for the rest of his life, Lao Tzu updated
We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us, East Germany, no need to update
Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your moochers and looters, Karl Marx updated
A penny saved is 9 mills after inflation, Benjamin Franklin updated
Thanks to the grasshopper the ant learned to share, Aesop updated
I once knew a boy who had the blues (Oh, Mona)
Had feet so big that he couldn’t get shoes (Oh, Mona)
Shoe clerk said come back again (Oh, Mona)
I can fit you with the box that the shoes came in (Oh, Mona)
I wonder if Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers are still out there somewhere with Hot Rize. Maybe in some universe, at least I like to think so.
... were the shoes hooker heels?
It was a store security camera.
The old country song “Jimmy Brown the Newsboy” comes to mind this Christmas season in the Dickensian world of JoeBama the mental demented lying Communist China buttboy of Xi (or should one say the “employee” of a Commie dictator ripping off our Country, and stealing our wealth? With help from his embedded obamaumao Federales also on the take?).
Imagine not being able to have shoes... in 2022, not even cheap a@@ chinee deck shoes 10 bucks at wally world. Incredible.
Jimmy Brown the Newsboy- A Carter Family song rendered by Earl Scruggs & Lester Flatt: “I’ve got no hat upon my head, no shoes upon my feet”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE73TjcXIXM
I am cynical. People make big bucks on videos like this now on YouTube and I’m inclined to think they’re 90% staged.
I don’t know what the shoes identified as.
It was a store security camera. Her employer on their business Facebook page backs up the account as genuine.
It was a store security camera.
What is the likely hood that they even fit?
Exactly.
She didn’t know there was a camera? She said she saw him outside in the garbage but he was inside perfectly in frame? And who puts boxes on their feet? I’m still skeptical.
It was a store security camera.
FFS, now another kinder, gentler word for homeless. So sick of the s**t.
VIDEO – Worker Gives Favorite Shoes to Homeless Man Wearing Boxes on His Feet: ‘I Cared About Him’
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Aww ... homeless man was pleased when he traded them for more drugs.
Babylon Bee? Everyone knows the Nikes are made by enslaved children in the poorest countries. Feel good nothing. She went out and bought another pair.
lol... so true... that walk of pride was not pride. it was excitment of getting loaded...
I'm having trouble with some hobo with tiny feet could wear women's Nikes? Nikes suck and the men's regulars are narrow, can you imagine how narrow the women's must be?
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