Good News: Free Rides For You and Your Car
Free Rides For You and Your Car…and missing teeth lead to a noble gesture. Here’s your Thursday round up of Good News (and we can all use that!)
1. The town of Chelmsford, Massachusetts near Boston is offering free rides to anyone who drinks too much during the holidays. They’ve been doing it for eight years now. You can get a ride AND have your car towed home for free. They call it their “Tow Drunk to Drive” initiative.
2. It’s not clear where this happened, but a video of a very compassionate neighbor is making the rounds. He lives next to an old lady, who kept coming over in the middle of the night to complain about some rope lights he put up.
She claimed they were keeping her awake, even though it sounds like that’s probably not true. But in the end, he offers to turn them off by 10:00 p.m. every night. Then he invites her to come over for dinner anytime she feels lonely.
(Here’s the video. Warning: In the full version, she says the B-word.)
3. Last Friday, Barstool Sports posted a Phenomenal fit pic.twitter.com/1rz7QHEquE
A guy named Brett Francis was also at the game, and he’s a dentist. He asked people online to help track the guy down, and he’s now fixing his teeth for free. It sounds like he should have his new smile by Christmas.
4. A tunnel that was under construction in northern India collapsed during a landslide this month, and 41 construction workers were trapped. But after 17 days and a massive rescue effort, all 41 made it out alive yesterday.
5. A woman in New Hampshire accidentally threw her wedding ring in the trash and didn’t realize until it was already at the dump. But workers managed to find it for her last Friday, and she got it back.
She was lucky they had some experience with this. It’s the third ring they’ve found for people, just in the past two years. They say this one missed going to the incinerator by about 15 minutes.
6. A lot of people missed this story over the Thanksgiving break: Last Thursday, a half-built high-rise in England caught fire. And a very skilled crane operator saved a construction worker stuck on the roof.
He saw him signaling for help, attached a cage to the crane, and lifted it up so the guy could climb in. A two-minute video has been making the rounds online. You can tell how dire it was just listening to the people in the background.
The crane operator is 65-year-old Glen Edwards. He said the windy conditions made it pretty tough. But he downplayed the whole thing, saying, quote, “I don’t want to blow it up too much. I’m not that sort of person.” (Here’s the video.)