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Venusian Love
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posted August 02, 2006 01:25 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Updated: 11:12 AM EDT
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Homeless Man Reaps Rewards for Honest Effort

DETROIT (July 25) - A homeless man who returned $21,000 worth of saving bonds he found in a trash bin is finding out how much honesty can pay off.

Charles Moore, a homeless man who found and turned in $21,000 worth of U.S. savings bonds
Robin Buckson, The Detroit News / AP
Charles Moore, 59, found and turned in $21,000 worth of U.S. savings bonds and got a $100 reward. Upon hearing the story, many people have sent Moore, who is homeless, $4,000 in cash and gifts.
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Charles Moore, 59, had been searching for returnable bottles last week when he came across the 31 U.S. savings bonds. He turned them in to a homeless shelter, where a staff member tracked down the family of the man who had owned them.

For his good deed, the bond owner's son gave Moore $100, but residents around Michigan and in other states decided his action merited a more generous reward.

So far, Moore has received over $4,000.

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One man sent him eight trash bags full of returnable bottles and a bowl of coins. Three others gave a combined $2,500, and two businessmen from Troy donated $1,200, a shopping spree and a lead on a job.

"I was thankful for it," said Moore, who had lost his roofing job in Ohio and moved back to Michigan but couldn't find work.

Moore said he plans to use the money to find an apartment.

David C. Smith, of Albuquerque, N.M., gave Moore $1,000. Smith said he and his fiancee wouldn't have thought twice about what to do if the bonds had belonged to them.

"We would have given him the whole amount, period," Smith said. "No questions asked."

07/25/06 09:53 EDT

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Rainbow~
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posted August 02, 2006 08:25 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thank you VL.....

What a heart warming story.

I hope that job lead works out for him...

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Venusian Love
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posted August 03, 2006 11:48 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I can recall the ogar or old man j once saying homeless peole were garbage and that is was there fault they were homeless and that they were all criminals.


Patheticcc.

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Rainbow~
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posted August 03, 2006 09:59 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
It figures....

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pidaua
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posted August 03, 2006 10:18 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for pidaua     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
It figures? Is that what you have to say in response Stainblow?

Funny, I have never called homeless people "garbage". The truth is "I" donate to homeless shelters and work with the homeless in my community. What do you do you Stainblow and MysticGerm? Oh wait nothing.. instead you put lies out stating jwhop and I call homeless people garbage. How many homeless people have you invited into your home, fed them, washed their clothes and let them use your shower? None? Probably not... I have and I still do. Huh..

I can bet you dollars to donuts that "we" and by that I mean most conservatives, do more for the homeless that you blow hard leftests.

Then again... you take the word of a total fool like VL.. isn't it funny that you would align your tumbleweed self up with someone that has been banned several times for her vulgar behaviour?

If I ever called anyone garbage it is VL and the actual term was "gutter-snipe" troll.

LMAO... Staiblow, you keep proving just what a sewage dweller you realy are. Keep up lies, they suit you.

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Rainbow~
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posted August 03, 2006 10:51 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Pid....

YOU ARE TOTALLY OUT OF LINE WITH THE BABBLE YOU JUST SPAT OUT!

I don't see where ANYONE said ANYTHING all about YOU regarding this homeless man!

Why are so eager to jump in to defend yourself, when no even said anything about you?

Of course, I'M the one you jumped on!

...but then this gives you the opportunity to BLOW YOUR OWN HORN again, doesn't it?

I feel sorry for you, Pid...


And you're always speaking of hatred...

Well, you've got enough of it, for all of us....

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Rainbow~
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posted August 03, 2006 11:01 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
oops!

Looks like I might have pulled a boo boo...

Looking back on VL's post, I see she makes a reference to an "ogar" whom you're obviously identifying with...

Sorry!

I didn't see the "ogar" part...all I noticed was the "old man" who I took to be jwhop...

It's nice that you help the homeless, Pid...that's very nice of you...

....and since you asked....yes, I have too....

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lotusheartone
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posted August 03, 2006 11:05 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I help people too! I don't talk about what I do...

but you know what..each good selfless deed we do..is a karmic star in our crown..

psst. crown is a figment of our imagination..from ego. ...

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Venusian Love
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posted August 04, 2006 11:24 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Oh wow. Forgot about this thread.


Now that I am reading back on it.


I think it's funny that I called her an ogar LOL.

I crack myself up!

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pidaua
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posted August 04, 2006 07:52 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for pidaua     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
whatever - don't tell me you haven't seen her ugly remarks calling me a hick, a desert ogar and other nice remarks about me living in a small / rural town.

In any case, believing in what that trash heap has to say is ludicrous and tarnishes people's reputations like jwhop.

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posted August 04, 2006 09:44 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
pid says....

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In any case, believing in what that trash heap has to say is ludicrous and tarnishes people's reputations like jwhop.

Pid...since you're concerned about "tarnishing people's reputations," it looks kind of silly for you to be all against tarnishing someone's reputation - and then in the SAME SENTENCE call someone a "trash heap."

umm...depends on who's reputation, huh?

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