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NEWS ABOUT: good samaritan

good samaritan stories: 7 news summaries

(Newser) - Chesley Sullenberger, the pilot hero of January’s Hudson River jet landing, was driven to help others by his father’s suicide, the New York Daily News reports. “One of the reasons I think I’ve placed such a high value on life is that my father took his,... More »

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suicide • US Airways • memoir • father • book • good samaritan • publishing industry • Chesley Sullenberger • Flight 1549

Injured Good Samaritan Gets Traffic Ticket for His Efforts

Man who saved others cited for jaywalking

Feb 26, 09 9:51 AM CST
(AP) - A good Samaritan who pushed three people out of the path of a pickup truck before being struck and injured has gotten a strange reward for his good deed: a jaywalking ticket. A Denver bus driver was helping two elderly women cross a busy street in a snowstorm when he... More »

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accident • Colorado • good samaritan • bus driver • jaywalking

Court Allows Suit Against Good Samaritan

Woman pulled her now-paralyzed friend from crashed car

Dec 18, 08 6:50 PM CST
(Newser) - Good Samaritans, beware: California's Supreme Court ruled today that a paralyzed woman can sue the friend who pulled her out of a crashed car. The victim contends that her friend, who feared the car was about to erupt into flames, pulled her out "like a rag doll" and contributed... More »

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California • lawsuit • good samaritan

Good Samaritan Hits Thief With Frozen Fowl

Hobbled robber flees
in car before police track him down

Nov 24, 08 6:15 PM CST
(Newser) - A man armed with a frozen turkey helped hobble a carjacker yesterday in a North Carolina town, the News & Observer reports. The rescuer battered a crook as he attacked a woman in a grocery store parking lot. The robber jumped in her car, smashing into parked vehicles, and... More »

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crime • North Carolina • turkey • Thanksgiving • carjacking • good samaritan

Pay-It-Forward Movement Finds Niche on Web

Small but growing number of sites
highlight good deeds

Sep 19, 08 6:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Internet is home to a small but growing trend that would seem anathema to hard-headed bloggers and pithy posters who regularly lay waste to others online: niceness. In Philadelphia, New York, and elsewhere, the Inquirer finds, civic-minded netizens are setting up sites that extol, and even enable, random acts... More »

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Internet • blogging • website • hero • good samaritan • kindness

One Man's Crusade Dents China Suicides

Keeping watch on busy Yangtze bridge has saved 144 lives so far

Apr 24, 08 4:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - One bridge over China’s Yangtze River sees hundreds of suicides as the country's rate rises—though fewer since a Nanjing man started spending weekends there saving lives. With 280,000 killing themselves ever year—twice the US total—Chen Si has so far stopped 144 suicides, the Los Angeles ... More »

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China • suicide • good samaritan

 Man Finds $140K, Gives It Back 

Money troubles don't stop conscience from winning out

Apr 10, 08 5:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - When Eli Estrada found $140,000 in unmarked bills sitting in the middle of the road, he thought he was rich. “That’s just your first reaction,” Estrada tells the Los Angeles Times, “but it’s not yours, and you feel nervous… like you did something wrong.... More »

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California • money • reward • good samaritan

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