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   From: me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net   
      
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   > RD Sandman wrote:   
   >> "%"  wrote in   
   >> news:1fSdne5jnr8BWAfMnZ2dnUVZ_qadnZ2d@giganews.com:   
   >>   
   >>> RD Sandman wrote:   
   >>>> When Phoenix police officer Natalie Simonick saw 18 year old   
   >>>> Christian Felix out after dark in March, she suspected he was   
   >>>> violating curfew. But Felix told her he was walking six miles home   
   >>>> from his job at McDonalds, as he had missed the bus and didn't own   
   >>>> a bicycle. Simonick was so impressed with the teen's work ethic   
   >>>> that she decided to buy him a bicycle.  Her squad members taught   
   >>>> him to ride it, and traffic cops even donated a helmet.  Felix said   
   >>>> the officers' kindness was a welcome surprise.  "These days, you   
   >>>> don't see anything like that." He said.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> The Week, May 24, 2012, p 2.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> he was 18 years old and didn't know how to ride a bike   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Perhaps he had never had one.  Perhaps his parent could never afford   
   >> one.   
   >   
   > perhaps he's 18 and old enough to have a car and he works   
      
   But that doesn't mean he can afford a car, or perhaps he's SAVING his money   
   until he can pay cash and not waste money on interest, or maybe he's saving   
   up for something else entirely like say a college education.   
      
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