I read an interesting news story out of Montana this
week. It seems a man that has been hitchhiking
around the country working on a photographic memoir about the kindness of
strangers. In a shameless act of self-promotion he shot
himself in the upper arm. He then
flagged down a lady and her daughter for help, claiming a random guy in a
pickup just pulled up and shot him for no apparent reason.
Here is where the story takes a turn. Police find and arrest a man fitting the description
given by the photographer. The man was
under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol, but claimed his innocence. The police detective really believed him, but
he did fit the description. The
photographer did eventually confess and the charges were dropped against the
other guy, but he was held on charges of DUI.
I wonder and hope that the pickup driver uses this as a huge
wakeup call. This could have turned out
a whole lot different than it did. God
was giving him a nudge, sure hope he is smart enough to follow it.
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