When I heard this story, the movie Pursuit of Happyness came to mind. And like the movie, it is good to see a positive outcome for a father supporting his child.
Aaron Tucker was on his way to a job interview when he was faced with a difficult decision. Do I help a man in need or go earn a job to support my son?
Tucker has been searching for a job since he finished a 22-month stint in prison for a weapons charge. The ex-convict wants to use his income to raise his almost 2 month old son. So when he received a call to work as a busser at Dinosaur Bar-B-Que in Stamford, Connecticut Tucker became quite excited.
While riding the bus on the way to his interview, Tucker saw a smoking car overturned in the road. He asked the bus driver if he was going to stop the bus - that would be a no. Tucker ask if the driver would wait while he checked on the smoking car - that is a no as well.
Tucker decided to miss his interview and go help the individual inside the car. He found a 61-year-old man bleeding from his head. With the aid of pedestrians who were congregating, Tucker pulled the man out of the wreckage and used his crisp, clean shirt to make a tourniquet around the stranger's head. He waited with his new friend until paramedics arrived to transport the man to a hospital.
While Tucker didn't land the busser job, he has since received three job offers. Some of the locals heard about Tucker's situation and started a GoFundMe campaign to honor him for his kind deed. That campaign has raised over $29,000 at the time of this article.
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Source: Aaron Tucker Rescues Injured Man