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The officer, normally assigned to the Sixth Precinct in the West Village, readily recalled the encounter. “It was freezing out and you could see the blisters on the man’s feet,” he said in an interview. “I had two pairs of socks and I was still cold.” They started talking; he found out the man’s shoe size: 12…
Mr. Cano volunteered to give the officer his employee discount to bring down the regular $100 price of the all-weather boots to a little more than $75. The officer has kept the receipt in his vest since then, he said, “to remind me that sometimes people have it worse.”
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“The police acted stupidly.”
platypus on November 29, 2012 at 10:14 PM
Treat thy neighbor as thyself. God bless Officer DiPriemo (sp)!
FloridaBill on November 29, 2012 at 10:14 PM
If that doesn’t warm your heart after all the crummy news today.
God bless you officer.
gophergirl on November 29, 2012 at 10:16 PM
That much for a pair of Skeechers?
SouthernGent on November 29, 2012 at 10:16 PM
Great story, and a wonderful man.
Hill60 on November 29, 2012 at 10:21 PM
“Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”
thebrokenrattle on November 29, 2012 at 10:24 PM
There are heroes like that among us every single day, they just don’t happen to get their pictures taken and posted to the Internet. They are just ordinary everyday people helping someone in a jam. That is why I love the people of my country so much.
crosspatch on November 29, 2012 at 10:25 PM
Bark once gave a pair of boots to someone too, and as soon as the concrete dried the dude was pushed overboard.
Bishop on November 29, 2012 at 10:27 PM
So nice to hear that. Yes, we are angered and ashamed that voters chose Obama again. But we must always appreciated the good in our fellow countrymen.
thebrokenrattle on November 29, 2012 at 10:36 PM
Love this.
ninnuh on November 29, 2012 at 10:52 PM
They need to pay that Times Square rent somehow.
blink on November 29, 2012 at 11:18 PM
Cheap cop. Can’t he see he also needs a pair of pants.
keep the change on November 30, 2012 at 12:08 AM
And then the homeless man used his new boots to walk to the crack house.
clearbluesky on November 30, 2012 at 1:00 AM
Beautiful, beautiful story. This young officer’s parents must be so proud…
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on November 30, 2012 at 1:33 AM
Nice to see things have improved a little since the days cops in Grand Central Station videotaped eachother strolling around naked harassing the homeless. I had a highly unpleasant run-in with a couple of them once on a station platform, and I was fully clothed at the tine.
Seth Halpern on November 30, 2012 at 1:49 AM
As were they.
Seth Halpern on November 30, 2012 at 1:50 AM
Yes. There’s an abundance of footwear in this country and a surplus of people who would help this man, but he probably has intractable addictions and probably has been given a 1,000 chances already.
The comments at NYT are predictably ignorant and trite.
RightKlik on November 30, 2012 at 2:22 AM
I particularly liked the comment that blamed Romney. What does he have to do with this guy being homeless? OTOH Obama’s been in office for FOUR FLIPPING YEARS!!!
txhsmom on November 30, 2012 at 2:30 AM
How can there possibly be a homeless person, much less a human without shoes in democrat utopia?
I’m shocked!
tom daschle concerned on November 30, 2012 at 8:23 AM