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Zach Galifianakis Saved an Elderly Woman From Homelessness

Donald Deane — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:06:08 +0000

Turns out, Zach Galifianakis isn't just a great comedic actor, he's also one heck of a nice guy. After learning that an elderly woman he's known for years had become homeless, he generously found her a small apartment and started paying her rent. Aww!

Kindly Customer Leaves $1,000 Tip So Waitress Can Visit Italy

Drew Weisholtz — Mon, 20 May 2013 20:58:50 +0000

Some days, you make more in tips than others. A woman on Tumblr shared a story about how her waitress mother recently got a $1,000 tip from a customer on a $60 bill. The rather large gratuity came after the woman told the customer how her family is from Italy and she has studied art [...]

Car Dealership Saves the Day for Teen Helping the Homeless

Emerald Catron — Sun, 19 May 2013 20:25:45 +0000

Sometimes a random act of kindness comes from a place you’d least expect. In Mariah Smith’s case, help came from a random used car salesman. Mariah Smith and her adoptive mother Moira Askew run a charity together in Virginia Beach called Blankets for the Homeless. The pair go out nightly and deliver blankets, food and [...]

Steak 'N Shake Server Gets a Whopping 7,000% Tip

Emerald Catron — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:24:43 +0000

CeCe Bruce had been working at a Steak n’ Shake in Indiana for two years when she received the tip of a lifetime. After watching Bruce deal with some rude customers, a regular tipped $446 on her $5.96 check — that’s a 7,000 percent tip. The customer, who would rather maintain a low profile, does [...]

Prom-Bound Seniors Stop Limo to Save Car Crash Victims

Emerald Catron — Thu, 16 May 2013 19:39:15 +0000

A group of teens had a legendary prom night, for a rather unusual reason. They didn’t set a new high school keg stand record — they stopped on the way to the dance to rescue some people who were in a car accident. The group of 20 students, dressed in gowns and tuxedos, were riding [...]

High School Baseball Team Lifts Up Car to Save Trapped Girl

Drew Weisholtz — Fri, 10 May 2013 15:19:50 +0000

If the Valley High School baseball team in Sacramento, California is as clutch on the field as it is off of it, it may very well win a championship. After a woman accidentally hit and backed over her teenage daughter, several players on the team ran to the scene and saved the day by lifting [...]

Charles Ramsey Rescues Missing Women, Becomes Internet Hero

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 07 May 2013 15:14:53 +0000

Charles Ramsey is a hero after freeing three women who had been kidnapped and held captive by his neighbor for 10 years. The Cleveland, Ohio man has also quickly become a viral video star after giving a series of descriptive interviews about the rescue. “I barbecued with this dude! We ate ribs and whatnot, and [...]

Amazing Poster Sends Secret Message to Help Abused Children

Emerald Catron — Mon, 06 May 2013 19:32:52 +0000

ANAR, a Spanish organization that helps at-risk children, found an interesting way to target only the people who needed their services, without their parents finding out they wanted to get help — a lenticular photo. If you think you’re unfamiliar with lenticular photographs, you’re probably not — they’re those pictures that used to come in [...]

See a Homeless Man's Reaction to Receiving $3,000

Emerald Catron — Mon, 06 May 2013 19:20:45 +0000

A few months ago, YouTube comedy channel Whatever 2ND struck gold when they filmed a homeless man do a pretty ridiculous trick with his mustache. The video went viral, and today it has over 1.7 million views. To repay him, Whatever 2ND raised money via Indiegogo to give to the man, named Clydesdale. They filmed [...]

Principal Got Rid of Security Guards and Then Something Unbelievable Happened

Emerald Catron — Thu, 02 May 2013 21:03:26 +0000

Where most people saw a “drop out factory” and “career killer,” Andrew Bott saw a school with potential. Bott was the sixth principal in seven years when he took the job at Orchard Gardens, a failing K-8 school in Roxbury, Massachusetts. He proceeded to eliminate the school’s security infrastructure and used the money to jumpstart [...]

Best Son Ever Pays Off Mom's Mortgage

Drew Weisholtz — Thu, 02 May 2013 15:28:05 +0000

If they ever have a contest to find the world’s best son, we’ve got a clear frontrunner. This man paid off his mother’s mortgage as a way of thanking her for all she’s done for him. The kind son posted a video of him getting the check ready to YouTube and then handing it to [...]

Watch a Heroic Police Officer Save a Man from an Oncoming Train

Drew Weisholtz — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 21:08:59 +0000

It looks like something out a superhero movie, but it’s for real. A police officer in Columbia saved a man from an oncoming train when he tried to jump in front of it. The man appears to try and commit suicide by stepping in front of the train when the cop reached in and grabbed [...]

Fourth Grade Student Writes Awesome Essay Defending Gay Marriage

Drew Weisholtz — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:28:31 +0000

The debate over gay marriage has gotten a little more childish. And that’s a good thing. A fourth grade student who was given an assignment to write a persuasive essay tackled the controversial subject and the results have gone viral, with his teacher posting the piece on Reddit. Yes, the essay has some grammatical errors [...]

Watch a Young Cancer Patient Score an Amazing Touchdown

Drew Weisholtz — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:40:07 +0000

For one moment, Noah Roberts was the big man on campus at East Carolina University. Eight-year-old Noah, who is battling a brain tumor, got to play in the spring game for the ECU football team this past weekend, running for a 40-yard touchdown on the game’s last play in a scene that culminated with the [...]

Homeless Man Vows to Share Fortune After Winning $50,000 Lottery Jackpot

Drew Weisholtz — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:16:23 +0000

A homeless man in Bloomington, Illinois is ready to spread the wealth. Dennis Mahurin, a homeless man who’s been living in a tent since 1978, recently won $50,000 playing the lottery. Mahurin has no plans to let his newfound fortune change him, but he does hope it will change others: With all the other homeless [...]

Quick-Thinking Waffle House Waitress Saves Diabetic Customer's Life

Drew Weisholtz — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:27:49 +0000

The food at Waffle House may not prolong your life, but the help sure will. Renee Vance, a waitress at a Waffle House in Cobb County, Georgia, saved the life of a 76-year-old customer who was slumped over the counter last weekend. When someone yelled for help because the man appeared to be having a [...]

Clever Dad Hacks Donkey Kong Game So Daughter Can Play As a Girl

Drew Weisholtz — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:02:30 +0000

Equal rights have finally come to video games. In a bit of ingenuity, a game developer named Mike Mika managed to hack the classic video game Donkey Kong so that instead of playing as Mario, his three-year-old daughter could play as Pauline, one of the female characters who usually needs to be rescued. Mika’s quest [...]

High School Football Coach Raises Money for Team With 'Will Work For Helmets' Sign

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:32:50 +0000

Football is a rough game, and the last thing you want to do is play it with a faulty helmet. That was the dilemma facing North Marion High School football coach Doug Bilodeau of Aurora, Oregon. Thanks to district budget cuts, his squad doesn’t have nearly enough safe helmets to play the 2013 season. So, [...]

Bullied Teen Who Threatened Suicide on Instagram Saved by Thousand of Letters from Strangers

Drew Weisholtz — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 19:40:03 +0000

Noah Brocklebank thought no one in the world cared about him, but he soon discovered just the opposite. The Columbia, Maryland boy has been besieged by thousands of messages of support after he had posted a photo on Instagram back in January with a note that read, “Day of scheduled suicide, February 8th, 2013, my [...]

Great-Grandmother Inspires 18-Year-Old to Perform Random Acts of Kindness

Drew Weisholtz — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 20:45:41 +0000

There’s no right way for getting over the death of a loved one, but Samantha Manns’ method may be the most inspiring. The 18-year-old from Chillicothe, Ohio is honoring her late great-grandmother by doing 89 random acts of kindness. Why 89? That’s how old grams was when she passed away last month. When Virginia Booth [...]

Internet Raises Money for Homeless Man Who Returned Lost Engagement Ring

Drew Weisholtz — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:15:00 +0000

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. Never has that old adage been more literally on the money than in the case of Billy Ray Harris, a homeless man in Kansas City, Missouri who returned a diamond ring to a woman who accidentally dropped it in his coin cup when she [...]

Homeless Man Returns Diamond Ring Mistakenly Dropped In His Change Cup

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:51:59 +0000

For a moment, homeless man Billy Ray Harris thought it was his lucky day. When he looked down into his change cup after a round of panhandling he noticed something really shiny among the coins and bills. It was a diamond and platinum ring, and a “big one” at that. But it didn’t take long for the [...]

Waiter Who Defended Boy With Down Syndrome Gives All Donations To Charity

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:16:06 +0000

Last month, Michael Garcia made a lot of people smile. The 45-year-old, who is a waiter at Laurenzo’s Restaurant in Houston, Texas, refused to serve a family who insulted Milo Castillo, a five-year-old with Down Syndrome, by suggesting that “special needs children need to be special someplace else.” The story became national news after being picked up by Houston’s 29-95 [...]

Costumed Window Washers Are Real Heroes at Children's Hospital

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 19:43:12 +0000

Superheroes are often used to cheer up kids who’ve been confined to the hospital. And while costumed do-gooders are always appreciated, a Pittsburgh-area window washing company thought of a novel way to make the experience even more memorable. Superhero window washers. That’s right, when the young occupants of Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh woke up on a Monday in [...]

Good Samaritan Wants to Deliver 20,000 Pizzas to Troops Overseas for Super Bowl

Drew Weisholtz — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:00:10 +0000

Your Super Bowl party will have a hard time “topping” the one Mark Evans is trying to put on. The 53-year-old retired Air Force master sergeant from Elk Grove, Illinois wants to send more than 20,000 pizzas to troops stationed in the Middle East for the Super Bowl. Keep that in mind when you get [...]

Homecoming Nominees Gives Crown to Student with Neurological Disorder

Jeremy Taylor — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:04:07 +0000

Scotty Maloney’s chances of being crowned homecoming king were slim. Among other things, the junior at Unionville Community High School in Bedford County, Tennessee wasn’t even nominated for the award. But Scotty, who is developmentally disabled with Williams Syndrome, and the rest of the student body got quite the surprise last Friday when his name was [...]

Christian Bale Calls Up Young Batman Fan Suffering From Leukemia

Drew Weisholtz — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:01:29 +0000

Christian Bale is not exactly known for being the warmest and fuzziest of stars in Hollywood, but he’s sure doing his best to change that image. ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ star called up a young Batman fan battling leukemia the other day and talked about – what else? – Batman. Zach Guillot, 8, loves Batman, [...]

Waiter Refuses to Serve Customer Who Insulted Boy with Down Syndrome

Drew Weisholtz — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:42:52 +0000

Michael Garcia is a waiter, but he may want to add “hero” to his resume. Garcia, a server at Laurenzo’s Restaurant in Houston, attempted to disprove the notion that the customer is always right when he refused to wait on a customer who made a negative comment about a child with Down syndrome. Garcia often [...]

Kindly Red Robin Waiter Gives Free Meal to Expectant Mom

Donald Deane — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:03:48 +0000

Christmas may have come and gone, but the spirit of giving is alive and well at Red Robin, where a pregnant woman recently got a free meal and a sweet note on her receipt from the restaurant's manager.

'Pay It Forward Chain' at Tim Horton's Lasts Three Hours

Jeremy Taylor — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 21:18:49 +0000

It all started when a customer at a Tim Horton's coffee shop in Winnipeg, Canada decided to spread some holiday cheer by also footing the bill for the next customer in line.

But instead of putting their money away, the customer who just got free coffee chose to use the cash on the next person in line. And, suddenly, an epic "pay it forward" chain had begun.