Well-wishers from around the world are opening their wallets to a homeless man who returned a diamond engagement ring to its rightful owner, after she accidentally dropped it in his donation cup.
"I actually feel like I'm especially lucky to have this ring now. I loved it before. I loved it so much, but I love it so much more now. I feel like it has such great karma," Sarah Darling told CNN's "Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien."
Darling, who is from Kansas City, Missouri, said she was devastated when she realized she'd lost her ring. u She almost never takes it off, but it was giving her a bit of a rash so she did, zipping it in her coin purse for safe keeping.
Later, she absentmindedly emptied the contents of that purse into the collection cup of Billy Ray Harris, who is homeless and often stays under a bridge in Darling's hometown.
It wasn't until the next day that she realized her ring was gone.
"It was horrible. It was such a feeling of loss," Darling said. "It meant so much to me beyond just the financial value."
She went back to look for Harris, but he was gone. She returned the next day and found him.
"I asked him ... 'I don't know if you remember me, but I think I gave you something that's very precious to me,' and he says, 'Was it a ring? Yeah, I have it, I kept it for you,'" Darling said.
She was floored.
To show their appreciation, Darling and her husband set up an online fundraiser for Harris. The donations and praise have poured in.
"In life what goes around comes around... Billy - your sweet actions, despite being in dire straits yourself, prove that there is humility in the world... you are one shining example. Lots of love from across the pond," wrote Chris and Mel, from Brentwood, England, on the giveforward.com site, which is collecting money. They gave $20.
"I am from Singapore and I greatly am grateful for your honesty!" wrote Ophelia Wong Zen-na, who gave $10.
Brian Paul also gave $10.
"If I wasn't jobless I would give much more, but felt compelled to do something. Billy Ray do your best to become what you've always dreamed you could be. Its never too late. God Bless and thanks for never loosing your character in tough times," he wrote.
So far, in about a week, more than 3,400 donations have been made, totaling nearly $95,000. The money will be given to Harris at the end of a 90-day campaign.
In an update Saturday, Darling's husband, Bill Krejci, called the response "unreal."
Krejci met with Harris to tell him about the flood of donations and to get to know him better. They went together to make some repairs to Harris' bike.
"We talked about a lot of things related to my family's ring and the many donations. We talked about one day in the future the ring may one day be passed down to my daughter," Krejci wrote on the website. "We talked about how insanely positive all this has been."
Harris told Krejci that he has found a place to stay where he is "safe and sound."
CNN affiliate KCTV caught up with Harris and asked him how he felt about all the attention he's attracted since returning the ring.
"I like it, but I don't think I deserve it," he said.
"What I actually feel like is, 'what has the world come to when a person who returns something that doesn't belong to him and all this happens?'" Harris said.
But for her part, Darling said she is just grateful for what he did. Many others, she said, would have kept the ring, or sold it.
"I really just hope that my kind of flightiness in that moment leads to something really good for him," she said. [此贴子已经被作者于2013/2/23 22:23:04编辑过]
Well-wishers from around the world are opening their wallets to a homeless man who returned a diamond engagement ring to its rightful owner, after she accidentally dropped it in his donation cup.
"I actually feel like I'm especially lucky to have this ring now. I loved it before. I loved it so much, but I love it so much more now. I feel like it has such great karma," Sarah Darling told CNN's "Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien."
Darling, who is from Kansas City, Missouri, said she was devastated when she realized she'd lost her ring.
She almost never takes it off, but it was giving her a bit of a rash so she did, zipping it in her coin purse for safe keeping.
Later, she absentmindedly emptied the contents of that purse into the collection cup of Billy Ray Harris, who is homeless and often stays under a bridge in Darling's hometown.
It wasn't until the next day that she realized her ring was gone.
"It was horrible. It was such a feeling of loss," Darling said. "It meant so much to me beyond just the financial value."
She went back to look for Harris, but he was gone. She returned the next day and found him.
"I asked him ... 'I don't know if you remember me, but I think I gave you something that's very precious to me,' and he says, 'Was it a ring? Yeah, I have it, I kept it for you,'" Darling said.
She was floored.
To show their appreciation, Darling and her husband set up an online fundraiser for Harris. The donations and praise have poured in.
"In life what goes around comes around... Billy - your sweet actions, despite being in dire straits yourself, prove that there is humility in the world... you are one shining example. Lots of love from across the pond," wrote Chris and Mel, from Brentwood, England, on the giveforward.com site, which is collecting money. They gave $20.
"I am from Singapore and I greatly am grateful for your honesty!" wrote Ophelia Wong Zen-na, who gave $10.
Brian Paul also gave $10.
"If I wasn't jobless I would give much more, but felt compelled to do something. Billy Ray do your best to become what you've always dreamed you could be. Its never too late. God Bless and thanks for never loosing your character in tough times," he wrote.
So far, in about a week, more than 3,400 donations have been made, totaling nearly $95,000. The money will be given to Harris at the end of a 90-day campaign.
In an update Saturday, Darling's husband, Bill Krejci, called the response "unreal."
Krejci met with Harris to tell him about the flood of donations and to get to know him better. They went together to make some repairs to Harris' bike.
"We talked about a lot of things related to my family's ring and the many donations. We talked about one day in the future the ring may one day be passed down to my daughter," Krejci wrote on the website. "We talked about how insanely positive all this has been."
Harris told Krejci that he has found a place to stay where he is "safe and sound."
CNN affiliate KCTV caught up with Harris and asked him how he felt about all the attention he's attracted since returning the ring.
"I like it, but I don't think I deserve it," he said.
"What I actually feel like is, 'what has the world come to when a person who returns something that doesn't belong to him and all this happens?'" Harris said.
But for her part, Darling said she is just grateful for what he did. Many others, she said, would have kept the ring, or sold it.
"I really just hope that my kind of flightiness in that moment leads to something really good for him," she said. 以下是引用福逗逗在2/23/2013 1:17:00 PM 的发言：
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Well-wishers from around the world are opening their wallets to a homeless man who returned a diamond engagement ring to its rightful owner, after she accidentally dropped it in his donation cup.
"I actually feel like I'm especially lucky to have this ring now. I loved it before. I loved it so much, but I love it so much more now. I feel like it has such great karma," Sarah Darling told CNN's "Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien."
Darling, who is from Kansas City, Missouri, said she was devastated when she realized she'd lost her ring.
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She almost never takes it off, but it was giving her a bit of a rash so she did, zipping it in her coin purse for safe keeping.
Later, she absentmindedly emptied the contents of that purse into the collection cup of Billy Ray Harris, who is homeless and often stays under a bridge in Darling's hometown.
It wasn't until the next day that she realized her ring was gone.
"It was horrible. It was such a feeling of loss," Darling said. "It meant so much to me beyond just the financial value."
She went back to look for Harris, but he was gone. She returned the next day and found him.
"I asked him ... 'I don't know if you remember me, but I think I gave you something that's very precious to me,' and he says, 'Was it a ring? Yeah, I have it, I kept it for you,'" Darling said.
She was floored.
To show their appreciation, Darling and her husband set up an online fundraiser for Harris. The donations and praise have poured in.
"In life what goes around comes around... Billy - your sweet actions, despite being in dire straits yourself, prove that there is humility in the world... you are one shining example. Lots of love from across the pond," wrote Chris and Mel, from Brentwood, England, on the giveforward.com site, which is collecting money. They gave $20.
"I am from Singapore and I greatly am grateful for your honesty!" wrote Ophelia Wong Zen-na, who gave $10.
Brian Paul also gave $10.
"If I wasn't jobless I would give much more, but felt compelled to do something. Billy Ray do your best to become what you've always dreamed you could be. Its never too late. God Bless and thanks for never loosing your character in tough times," he wrote.
So far, in about a week, more than 3,400 donations have been made, totaling nearly $95,000. The money will be given to Harris at the end of a 90-day campaign.
In an update Saturday, Darling's husband, Bill Krejci, called the response "unreal."
Krejci met with Harris to tell him about the flood of donations and to get to know him better. They went together to make some repairs to Harris' bike.
"We talked about a lot of things related to my family's ring and the many donations. We talked about one day in the future the ring may one day be passed down to my daughter," Krejci wrote on the website. "We talked about how insanely positive all this has been."
Harris told Krejci that he has found a place to stay where he is "safe and sound."
CNN affiliate KCTV caught up with Harris and asked him how he felt about all the attention he's attracted since returning the ring.
"I like it, but I don't think I deserve it," he said.
"What I actually feel like is, 'what has the world come to when a person who returns something that doesn't belong to him and all this happens?'" Harris said.
But for her part, Darling said she is just grateful for what he did. Many others, she said, would have kept the ring, or sold it.
"I really just hope that my kind of flightiness in that moment leads to something really good for him," she said.
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"I actually feel like I'm especially lucky to have this ring now. I loved it before. I loved it so much, but I love it so much more now. I feel like it has such great karma," Sarah Darling told CNN's "Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien."
Darling, who is from Kansas City, Missouri, said she was devastated when she realized she'd lost her ring.
She almost never takes it off, but it was giving her a bit of a rash so she did, zipping it in her coin purse for safe keeping.
Later, she absentmindedly emptied the contents of that purse into the collection cup of Billy Ray Harris, who is homeless and often stays under a bridge in Darling's hometown.
It wasn't until the next day that she realized her ring was gone.
"It was horrible. It was such a feeling of loss," Darling said. "It meant so much to me beyond just the financial value."
She went back to look for Harris, but he was gone. She returned the next day and found him.
"I asked him ... 'I don't know if you remember me, but I think I gave you something that's very precious to me,' and he says, 'Was it a ring? Yeah, I have it, I kept it for you,'" Darling said.
She was floored.
To show their appreciation, Darling and her husband set up an online fundraiser for Harris. The donations and praise have poured in.
"In life what goes around comes around... Billy - your sweet actions, despite being in dire straits yourself, prove that there is humility in the world... you are one shining example. Lots of love from across the pond," wrote Chris and Mel, from Brentwood, England, on the giveforward.com site, which is collecting money. They gave $20.
"I am from Singapore and I greatly am grateful for your honesty!" wrote Ophelia Wong Zen-na, who gave $10.
Brian Paul also gave $10.
"If I wasn't jobless I would give much more, but felt compelled to do something. Billy Ray do your best to become what you've always dreamed you could be. Its never too late. God Bless and thanks for never loosing your character in tough times," he wrote.
So far, in about a week, more than 3,400 donations have been made, totaling nearly $95,000. The money will be given to Harris at the end of a 90-day campaign.
In an update Saturday, Darling's husband, Bill Krejci, called the response "unreal."
Krejci met with Harris to tell him about the flood of donations and to get to know him better. They went together to make some repairs to Harris' bike.
"We talked about a lot of things related to my family's ring and the many donations. We talked about one day in the future the ring may one day be passed down to my daughter," Krejci wrote on the website. "We talked about how insanely positive all this has been."
Harris told Krejci that he has found a place to stay where he is "safe and sound."
CNN affiliate KCTV caught up with Harris and asked him how he felt about all the attention he's attracted since returning the ring.
"I like it, but I don't think I deserve it," he said.
"What I actually feel like is, 'what has the world come to when a person who returns something that doesn't belong to him and all this happens?'" Harris said.
But for her part, Darling said she is just grateful for what he did. Many others, she said, would have kept the ring, or sold it.
"I really just hope that my kind of flightiness in that moment leads to something really good for him," she said.
以下是引用福逗逗在2/23/2013 1:17:00 PM 的发言：
世界之大无奇不有
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以下是引用seriously在2/23/2013 1:18:00 PM 的发言：
这真的不是坑吗。。
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good man.
bless.
当时把包里一把零钱都倒给他了，忘了戒指也在里面，到家里才发现的，回去找那人已经不见了，明天去还能找回来吗？？
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这是前几天的一个新闻，那个homeless在原地等着她回去找戒指，还给她了。莫非你就是那个她？
以下是引用杨伟南在2/23/2013 1:18:00 PM的发言：
真实故事
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以下是引用chill在2/23/2013 2:03:00 PM 的发言：
发生在你身上的？
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loading...
明天找到人去登记？
以下是引用杨伟南在2/23/2013 2:04:00 PM的发言：
你没看那YouTube？
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以下是引用chill在2/23/2013 2:09:00 PM 的发言：
回去看了，不解释我的问题啊，你发的贴子的意思好像是你也给丢了？.....我晕了...
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当时把包里一把零钱都倒给他了，忘了戒指也在里面，到家里才发现的，回去找那人已经不见了，明天去还能找回来吗？？
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话说，我也有可能干这事，一次次的教训后，我决定以后不主动当好人了，现在你只能去问问看你的home insurance能不能赔偿了。。。。
指望无家可归的人大发善心，希望渺茫，对不起，不想打击你。。。
以下是引用杨伟南在2/23/2013 2:11:00 PM的发言：
我想看看有没有人相信会找回来。。
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以下是引用chill在2/23/2013 2:16:00 PM 的发言：
那你干嘛第一页就公布答案了....也得让大家猜会儿啊
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以下是引用杨伟南在2/23/2013 2:17:00 PM的发言：
碰上了你这样的一定要我回答你的疑问。。
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世界之大无奇不有
听的是kansas city的还.
Bless,好人会有好报。即使要不回来，老天爷也看着呢。。。
世界之大无奇不有
以下是引用炭烧咖啡在2/23/2013 9:52:00 PM 的发言：
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你知道你一天两贴了吗
世界之大无奇不有
bless吧，不知道说点别的什么好了
话说，我也有可能干这事，一次次的教训后，我决定以后不主动当好人了，现在你只能去问问看你的home insurance能不能赔偿了。。。。
指望无家可归的人大发善心，希望渺茫，对不起，不想打击你。。。
为啥你主动当了好人以后，换来一次次的教训？你是不是更得反思这个。 光有好心，更得有适合的方法。 帮助别人，是给自己增加福报的方法。吸引力法则，你也会吸引到愿意帮到自己的人
反而无家可归的人，有可能拾金不昧。更何况这个是钻戒，卖钱卖不了几个，还对别人很重要 而真正有钱的人，也有贪小便宜的可能。
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Bless,好人会有好报。即使要不回来，老天爷也看着呢。。。
热，该破财的，不丢这个也会丢别的。
是你的，老天也会在别的地方补给你。
以下是引用冰海美人鱼在2/23/2013 10:14:00 PM的发言：
真的？？假的啊？？？
这么一个感人故事。
以下是引用cuiyu19871005在2/23/2013 10:25:00 PM 的发言：
戒指为啥不带手上要放钱包里呢~~~好奇怪啊~~~
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世界之大无奇不有
世界之大无奇不有
Bless mm, 好人好报
... LZ 可以去试试吧
世界之大无奇不有
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称颂了一下美国人民拾金不昧。的确有信仰和没信仰是不一样。
跟美国有什么关系？跟信仰有什么关系？在中国没有信仰的普通人也有很多拾金不昧的啊
世界之大无奇不有
... LZ 可以去试试吧
世界之大无奇不有
世界之大无奇不有
世界之大无奇不有
世界之大无奇不有
big bless, 不过 很难吧。
世界之大无奇不有
以下是引用happyniu在2/24/2013 8:33:00 AM 的发言：
一天不挖坑会死吗?无聊的WSN
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世界之大无奇不有