Doing the ‘right thing,’ cop buys bed for teen
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Some of the social media networks laughed it up big a few weeks ago when the New York Police Department invited its social media audience to submit pictures of encounters with a police officer.
People could've posted a picture of the cop who bought boots for a homeless man, but that wouldn't have been that funny; not as funny as this.
https://twitter.com/MoreAndAgain/statuses/458703571609874432
It was a bad idea because people are going to be people.
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It can be hard for cops like Gaetano Acerra of Sumter, South Carolina to get a little recognition but, fortunately, he got some this week after he responded to a call from a 13-year-old boy who said he didn't want to live with his mother anymore.
“I said, ‘You have it good. You have a roof over your head,’” Acerra tells WIS TV in Columbia, South Carolina.
When he took the boy home, however, he found he didn't even have a bed to sleep in.
So he went and bought Cameron Simmons a bed, a TV, a desk, and a Wii console.
“I did it because I could,” he said. “And it was the right thing to do and I think people should do things like this.”
