Tag: Alabama
Officer Buys Shoplifting Woman Eggs
Well done Officer Stacy!
The compassion shown by Officer William Stacy to desperate Alabama mother Helen Johnson captured the nation’s attention at a time of strained relations between the police and black Americans.
Instead of arresting her for stealing five eggs to feed her starving family, Stacy bought the carton and the touching hug they shared afterwards was caught on video by a stunned passer-by.
But it got even better when Officer Stacy and some colleagues arrived at 47-year-old Johnson’s home with two truckloads of food to keep her and her children and grandchildren fed through Christmas.
An Alabama police officer’s gesture to a shoplifting grandmother is going viral.
Officer William Stacy was called to the Dollar General store in Tarrant over the weekend on reports that a woman was caught trying to steal a dozen eggs.
Stacy told WIAT-TV he recognized the woman because he had responded to a previous call at her house and had seen her difficult living situation.
The store decided not to press charges, and Stacy decided to pay for the eggs.
“She tried to give me all the money she had,” Stacy said. “It was about $1.25. I told her the best way to pay me back was to never do something like that again.”
Helen Johnson, 47, told AL.com that her two daughters, a niece and two grandchildren hadn’t eaten since Thursday when she was caught stealing last Saturday.
“I’ve never been more grateful in my life,” she said. “I’m so overwhelmed with the goodness of these people.”
A customer recorded the incident, showing the officer hugging the woman in the store parking lot.
As seen on Your World with Neil Cavuto:
An Alabama officer caught a grandmother stealing eggs; instead of arresting her, he surprised her with an amazing act of kindness.
William Stacy explained today on “Your World” how he stopped a grandmother in a parking lot, who admitted that she had stolen the eggs.
“She told me she needed help, and that she needed to put food in her babies’ stomachs. And I couldn’t let the babies go hungry so I told her go on, park in the parking lot, […] bought her a carton of eggs and brought them back out to her.”
She started crying and apologizing for the theft, then gave the officer a hug.
Stacy told Neil Cavuto that the woman kept trying to give him all the money she had on her, which was about $1.25. He told her to keep the money, and said the only way to repay him was not to steal again.
The encounter – which was caught on camera – received a tremendous response from the public, leading people to donate food and other items to the woman.
“What I did, hundreds of thousands of officers everyday across the United States do the same exact thing. They even do more than what I did. I don’t understand why this video went viral the way it has,” Stacy said, adding that he’s grateful that the video has garnered such a positive reaction because law enforcement needs that right now.
Alabama Boy Kills 1,051-Pound Monster Pig
Alabama Boy Kills 1,051-Pound Monster Pig, Bigger Than ‘Hogzilla’
This article, from 2007, initially ran in the news media as a report (and a series of accompanying photographs) of an eleven-year-old boy shooting a giant feral pig. I don’t know if it was ever proven to be a hoax but if it is real… that’s a lot of bacon!
An 11-year-old Alabama boy used a pistol to kill a wild hog that just may be the biggest pig ever found.
Jamison Stone’s father says the hog his son killed weighed a 1,051 pounds and measured 9-feet-4 from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail. Think hams as big as car tires.
If the claims are accurate, Jamison’s trophy boar would be bigger than Hogzilla, the famed wild hog that grew to seemingly mythical proportions after being killed in south Georgia in 2004.
Hogzilla originally was thought to weigh 1,000 pounds and measure 12 feet in length. National Geographic experts who unearthed its remains believe the animal actually weighed about 800 pounds and was 8 feet long.
After seeing the pig in person, taxidermist Jerry Cunningham told The Anniston Star it was “the biggest thing I’d ever seen … it’s huge.”
The Anniston Star reported that the feral hog was weighed at the Clay County Farmer’s Exchange in Lineville. Workers at the co-op verified that the basic truck scales used were recently certified by the state. But no workers from the co-op were present when the hog was weighed.
Jamison is reveling in the attention over his pig, which has a Web site put up by his father that is generating Internet buzz.
“It feels really good,” Jamison, of Pickensville, said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. “It’s a good accomplishment. I probably won’t ever kill anything else that big.”
Jamison, who killed his first deer at age 5, was hunting with father Mike Stone and two guides in east Alabama on May 3 when he bagged Hogzilla II. He said he shot the huge animal eight times with a .50-caliber revolver and chased it for three hours through hilly woods before finishing it off with a point-blank shot.
Through it all there was the fear that the animal would turn and charge them, as wild boars have a reputation of doing.
“I was a little bit scared, a little bit excited,” said Jamison, who just finished the sixth grade on the honor roll at Christian Heritage Academy, a small, private school.
His father said that, just to be extra safe, he and the guides had high-powered rifles aimed and ready to fire in case the beast with 5-inch tusks decided to charge.
With the pig finally dead in a creek bed on the 2,500-acre Lost Creek Plantation, a commercial hunting preserve in Delta, trees had to be cut down and a backhoe brought in to bring Jamison’s prize out of the woods.
It was hauled on a truck to the Clay County Farmers Exchange in Lineville, where Jeff Kinder said they used his scale, which was recently calibrated, to weigh the hog.
Kinder, who didn’t witness the weigh-in, said he was baffled to hear the reported weight of 1,051 pounds because his scale — an old, manual style with sliding weights — only measures to the nearest 10.
“I didn’t quite understand that,” he said.
Mike Stone said the scale balanced one notch past the 1,050-pound mark, and he thought it meant a weight of 1,051 pounds.
“It probably weighed 1,060 pounds. We were just afraid to change it once the story was out,” he said.
The hog’s head is now being mounted on an extra-large foam form by Cunningham of Jerry’s Taxidermy in Oxford. Cunningham said the animal measured 54 inches around the head, 74 inches around the shoulders and 11 inches from the eyes to the end of its snout.
Mike Stone is having sausage made from the rest of the animal. “We’ll probably get 500 to 700 pounds,” he said.
Jamison, meanwhile, has been offered a small part in “The Legend of Hogzilla,” a small-time horror flick based on the tale of the Georgia boar. The movie is holding casting calls with plans to begin filming in Georgia.
The Anniston Star reported that congratulatory calls have come all the way from California, where Jamison appeared on a radio talk show. Jamison apparently has gotten words of congratulation from Rickey Medlocke of Lynyrd Skynyrd, country music star Kenny Chesney, Tom Knapp of Benelli firearms and Jerry Miculek of Smith & Wesson.
Jamison is enjoying the newfound celebrity generated by the hog hunt, but he said he prefers hunting pheasants to monster pigs.
“They are a little less dangerous.”
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