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Victim to armed robbers: Turn yourselves in and I'll pay for your college
NBC News' Today Show ^ | November 26, 2014 | Marisa Kabas

Posted on 12/01/2014 12:56:01 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Dr. Victor Ho lives in an upscale Houston neighborhood. He never imagined he’d be a victim of a violent crime. But that changed the day he came home to find himself face-to-face with two armed robbers.

However, instead of feeling anger towards the young men who threatened him and his family’s safety, Ho and his wife, Arielle Lawson, instead threw them a lifeline: the offer of a free education.

“We thought, how can we show our children how to make a good situation out of a bad situation and be a better person than the person who did this to us?” Ho told TODAY.com.

On the afternoon of Oct. 17, Ho picked up two of his three children from school and pulled up to his Houston home to find a white van facing outward, looking like it was getting ready to leave. As the van began to pull away, Ho rolled down his window to ask the young driver if he could help him. The driver said he was waiting for someone, and drove away.

Instinctively, Ho’s 11-year-old daughter knew something was wrong. “She said ‘Dad, you have to call the police.’”(continued)

(Excerpt) Read more at today.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: asians; blacks; crime; texas
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Doc. No good deed goes unpunished.


21 posted on 12/01/2014 3:32:38 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Moral Hazard.


22 posted on 12/01/2014 3:32:57 AM PST by 4Liberty (Prejudice and generalizations. That's how Collectivists roll......)
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To: Rodamala

Hoes are great for working above ground This job calls for a spade.


23 posted on 12/01/2014 3:42:14 AM PST by Autonomous User (No 18 Holes after a Head Rolls.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

chances are they never finished high school.


24 posted on 12/01/2014 3:57:33 AM PST by bikerman (any day above ground is a good day)
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To: Politicalkiddo
Great! Another psycho running around with a “Womyn’s studies” degree.

He's an emergency room physician.

25 posted on 12/01/2014 3:58:01 AM PST by Graybeard58 ( O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together. Ps 34:3)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
This sounds like a new fortune cookie suffix:

Turn yourselves in and I'll pay for your college - in prison.

26 posted on 12/01/2014 4:04:32 AM PST by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Dr Ho is either a much better man than I or the dumbest highly educated smart man in Houston. I suspect the latter.


27 posted on 12/01/2014 4:10:12 AM PST by Tupelo (I am feeling more like Phillip Nolan by the day.)
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To: Graybeard58

I admire him. He’s putting his money where his mouth is. The perps don’t deserve it, no, but that’s what makes this so great.


28 posted on 12/01/2014 4:34:02 AM PST by Shimmer1 (No punishment is too great for the man who builds his greatness upon his country's ruin.G.Washington)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Ho’s 11-year-old daughter knew something was wrong. “She said ‘Dad, you have to call the police.”
It’s frightening when a 11 year old has more common sense than the parent; I hope his technical medical skills are better.
A van backed up to a garage at his house and a “Can I help you?” Here is my wife and daughters, help yourself.


29 posted on 12/01/2014 4:34:18 AM PST by BilLies ( it isn't the color of the skin, but the culture embraced that degrades.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

You are probably right that it boosts his image while protecting his investment. Some will scoff, but if one has the means and the mind to make such an offer, there is always at least a slim possibility that it might touch someone’s life in a way that has a wider effect. God can make all sorts of good things happen out of the ills that plague us.


30 posted on 12/01/2014 5:23:02 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Idiot.


31 posted on 12/01/2014 5:24:57 AM PST by ex91B10 (We've tried the Soap Box,the Ballot Box and the Jury Box; ONE BOX LEFT!a)
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To: SatinDoll

I agree that this is an incredibly Christian gesture. Idealistic maybe, but nobly motivated.

I would endorse it with one proviso: the money will be there for you, provided you come forward, confess your crime to the authorities, and accept the consequences. You don’t get rewarded for being a criminal, at least not until you’ve paid society back. Prove to me that you’re at least that responsible and I’ll pony up for your education.


32 posted on 12/01/2014 5:37:57 AM PST by IronJack
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A trained SWAT doctor who doesn’t call the cops as his more observant and mature 11 year old daught advised him to do and who wanders around the house without a gun is more than a fry short of a happy meal. Lets hope something, like getting fired by his supervisor over his stupidity or shot the next time, doesn’t mess up his financial portfolio so his own kids don’t get a college education. One would think there would be prints on the money they gave back to him.


33 posted on 12/01/2014 5:50:40 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: IronJack

Coming forward and confessing the crime was one of the requirements Dr.Ho stipulated. It was mentioned in the article.


34 posted on 12/01/2014 6:34:20 AM PST by SatinDoll (A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE US OF US CITIZEN PARENTS.)
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To: BilLies
...“Ho’s 11-year-old daughter knew something was wrong. “She said ‘Dad, you have to call the police.”

It’s frightening when a 11 year old has more common sense than the parent..."

I live in Houston; crime like this is common and out of control (our lesbo mayor is more concerned with men with vaginas using public restrooms). I had to get dogs to protect the back side of our house from intrusion; at least once a month we get probing activity from criminals.

I have a child/family to protect; They come first. If I see a "van backed up in my driveway" I will not be relying on her common sense - I will utilize my own!

This guy sounds like a dumb ho.

As an aside, I have noticed an increase in black hostility in the last few weeks. I see it in public: Black people being aggressive - yelling, and hostile to non-black people. In the last instance I just stood there as visible backup for a very pregnant white lady. I was afraid she was gonna get attacked in a parking lot.

Now more than ever, we need to stick together.

35 posted on 12/01/2014 7:15:18 AM PST by T-Bone Texan (The time is now to form up into leaderless cells of 5 men or less.)
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To: Graybeard58

No, I meant the nutjob that attacked him would probably get a useless degree assuming he would have the capacity to get a degree.


36 posted on 12/01/2014 8:06:16 AM PST by Politicalkiddo ("It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority."- Benjamin Franklin)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Dr. Victor Ho fails to understand that the fact is some people are among us that shouldn’t be among us.

Lt Joe Kinda


37 posted on 12/01/2014 8:27:37 AM PST by Vaduz
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