Woman shames officer for having lunch on duty, so he tells her about his day

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Monica Pop
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Despite the fact that they often put their lives on the line for the well-being of the members of their community, many people still have negative opinion about the work of police officers.

Andre Owen, a Police Constable, shared a story of how his day went by not assuming it would attract the attention of thousands of people.

He was working a 12 hour shift the day he stopped to grab some lunch at Burger King. He hadn’t eaten in eight hours and didn’t even have the time to go to the toilet as his day was very busy and he had a lot on his plate. However, once he entered the restaurant and placed his order, a female customer gave him a dirty look. She then turned to him and made a remark because he was having lunch while wearing his uniform.

He didn’t expect something like that to happen but he didn’t want to answer back. Once he went home, he felt the urge to share the unpleasant incident on Twitter and explain what his day looked like before he even found the time to eat.

“To the lady that scorned me for buying food on duty,” Officer Owen started his post. “I’ve not stopped since 07:05 this morning, not even for a toilet break. I’m over 100 miles from my station and I’m due off in 45 minutes…with a two hour journey at least!!! #policearehumanstoo,” he wrote alongside a photo of his meal.

In no time, Owen’s post had gone viral. This 25-year-old officer, who has been working with the Sussex Police for five years, received outpouring messages of support.

UK Mirror then got in touch with him. Speaking to them, he explained more about his day and said that it was around 2 pm and he was about to finish working at 3 pm, but he still had a hundred mile journey before he could arrive at the station. There, he needed to finish some paperwork before he could go home.

“Five minutes after starting my shift, I was assigned to a serious job in Brighton. I dealt with that and then had yo drive non stop to Oxford as part of the same job, single crewed,” Owen told The Mirror. “Half and hour into the return journey, I stopped a ta service station for my first toilet stop of the day! While there, I also got a double whooper meal, apple pie, Coke and a cappuccino.”

It was then that the unknown lady decided to make an assumption that he wasn’t doing his job properly as she saw him having lunch while on duty.

He recalled her exact words were, “While you’re in here stuffing your face, there’s criminals that need catching out there.” He, however, just smiled and didn’t say a single word.

He then explained that his tweet in which he described what had happened wasn’t intended for sympathy. Instead, he wanted more people to realize that what officers do each and every day isn’t that easy.

On the way to the station, he stumbled upon a broken car and stopped to make sure the family inside the vehicle get the help they needed. He finally finished his shift at 7 pm.

“While it’s long, and the lady annoyed me at the time, I love my job and on the whole, wouldn’t change it for the world,” PC Andre Owen said.

We are very thankful to our police officers for everything they do on a daily basis. Without them, our communities won’t feel like the safe places they are.

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All of her boyfriend’s friends mocked her for how fat she was, but he stayed by her side to the end

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Sometimes, the world we live in is a sad, sad place because everything seems to be about the way people look on the outside and not many care if the person’s character is worth all the praise. It is mainly because of magazines, TV commercials, and most recently social media sites which promote beauty standards in the form of skinny girls and models that many people, especially women, feel not worthy just because they don’t fit those standards.

Rarely do we see beyond people’s looks, and those who do are very special individuals worth to be part of our lives.

When it comes to America, a 2019 study by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) confirms the country to have the most concerning obesity statistics. The study found that nearly 40 percent of adults and 19 percent of children between the ages of 2 and 19 were obese, the highest rates ever recorded.

To be obese is an ordeal many are forced to go through and the reasons leading to that condition can be various.

The following story is one about true love. Holly and John were high school sweethearts. At one point of her life, Holly started gaining weight at a rapid speed, which raised red flags. During a doctor’s visit, it was discovered that she suffered from thyroid ailment, which caused her weight to get out of control. In just a year, Holly gained half of her initial weight before the diagnosis.

As this happened, many of John’s friends told him to leave her because she wasn’t attractive any longer. Holly was well aware of that. She herself knew that her weight could make John leave her, but that never happened. Instead, he supported her and reminded her just how much he loved her every single day.

Over the course of time, Holly’s health started to deteriorate. At one point, she experienced severe heart issues despite all the medications she was taking.

Unfortunately, she passed away shortly after. John was heartbroken. He couldn’t imagine his life without his loved one by his side.

One day, he found a letter Holly wrote for him while she was still alive. There, she wrote just how much it meant to her that he never gave up on her, despite her obesity. Alongside the touching words, she left $10,000 for him and asked him to live his life to the fullest.

This story is just a reminder that we should never judge a book by its cover. We never know of the struggles people are going through, just like Holly.

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Police may have cracked a 1975 killing — by digging through trash

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A gruesome murder which took place on December 5, 1975, was probably solved thanks to DNA genealogy, a new technique that went mainstream with the 2018 arrest of the “Golden State Killer.”

A young woman, 19-year-old Lindy Sue Biechler, was found stabbed to death on the floor of her Lancaster County, Pa., apartment. Detectives described the crime scene as gruesome and hard to watch. Biechler was a newlywed and was just starting her married life when someone took her life in the worst manner possible. Her jeans was unbuttoned and she was stabbed 19 times. The groceries that she was unpacking at the time her killer entered her place were at the dinner table.

It was her aunt and uncle who came across her dead body after they paid her a visit wanting to exchange some recipes.

The police chased scores of tips, interviewed hundreds of people, presented the case to experts, but to no avail. They were short of leads and the investigation seemed to be going nowhere.

That was until many years later, when authorities decided to get back to the case and allow the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit dug into the clues. The Unit discovered that the potential killer was probably a man who knew Biechler and committed the crime in a fit of rage.

“I have prayed every single night for 30 years that there will be justice for her death,” Biechler’s mother, Eleanor Geesey, told Lancaster Online. “My God, maybe it will come.”

That day finally came thanks to the DNA genealogy. Through the thorough researcher conducted at Reston, Va.-based Parabon NanoLabs determined through DNA evidence that whoever killed Biechler probably had ancestors from a small Italian town called Gasperina. 68-year-old Pennsylvania man, David Sinopoli, was flagged a person of interest. It appeared that he lived near the victim around the year 1974 and was of Italian origin.

It was in February 2022, when authorities closely followed Sinopoli while he had coffee with his wife at Philadelphia International Airport’s Terminal A waiting for a flight. Once he threw the cup of coffee in the trash, detectives retrieved it. The DNA from the cup and that found on Biechler’s underwear was a match.

After almost five decades, Biechler’s potential killer was arrested. Sinopoli was taken into custody and was being held without bail.

“This case was solved with the use of DNA and, specifically, DNA genealogy,” Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams said during a Monday news conference. “And quite honestly, without that, I don’t know that we would have ever solved it.

“The reality is that David Sinopoli was not on our radar.”

Thankfully, the justice will be finally served.

“Lindy Sue Biechler was 19 when her life was brutally taken away from her 46 years ago in the sanctity of her own home,” Adams said. “The arrest of David Sinopoli marks the beginning of the court process. And we hope that it brings some sense of relief to the victim’s loved ones and to the community, who for the past 46 years have had no answers.”

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Condoleezza Rice never met anybody she wanted to marry – this is what she’s up to today

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When it comes to women and their place in politics, many hold the opinion that they are nowhere near as good as their male counterparts. Luckily, there are women out there who help undermine this belief, among which, Condoleezza Rice, the first Black woman to serve as the United States’ National Security Adviser and a former United States Secretary of State under George W. Bush.

Rice was brought up in the segregated South, which meant her life wasn’t truly an easy one when it came to the society she belonged to. But her parents did all in their power to provide for her the best life possible. Their love and trust that she would some day achieve great things was something that inspired and encouraged her throughout her life. Their influence on the way her personality shaped was immense.

“I was fortunate in that I had extraordinary parents. [I] wrote a book about them. My mother was a teacher and my father was a high-school guidance counselor. They absolutely believed that I could do anything,” she explained.

“They provided every opportunity to me that they could afford — and some that they couldn’t afford. In [our] little town of segregated Alabama, they made it clear that your fate is in your own hands — that you had to work twice as hard. And as a matter of fact, I did not feel any boundaries. I believed that my horizons had no limits.”

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In her autobiography Extraordinary, Ordinary People, which is also a homage to her parents, Rice described how her parents always stood up for her. During an occasion, when she was still a child, Santa Clause wouldn’t take her in his lap because she was black. All of the black children were forced to stand on one side.

“If he does that to Condoleezza,” her father reportedly told Rice’s mother, “I’m going to pull all of that stuff off him and expose him as just another cracker.”

Rice was an excellent student. She attended classes at the University of Denver and high school simultaneously at age 15. In 1974, Rice earned her bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Denver. A year later, she received her master’s from the University of Notre Dame, and in 1981, she got her Ph.D. from the University of Denver’s Graduate School of International Studies.

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At the time she earned her Ph.D., Rice became a political science professor at Stanford University in California and started her political career, first as a democrat and some time later as “an all-over-the-map Republican.”

In the year of 1989, she became director of Soviet and East European affairs with the National Security Council and held a position as a special assistant to President George H.W. Bush when the Soviet Union dissolved.

In 2001, Condoleezza Rice was appointed U.S. National Security Advisor by President George W. Bush. She was the first woman ever to hold that position.

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After spending years in Washington, Rice eventually settled back in California where she started working as a political science professor at the Hoover Institution.

“I think my father thought I might be President of the United States. I think he would’ve been satisfied with Secretary of State. I’m a foreign policy person, and to have a chance to serve my country as the nation’s chief diplomat at a time of peril and consequence, that was enough,” she said at the 2012 Republican National Convention where she announced she was stepping down from politics.

Although she’s not into politics any longer, she has her hands full. Rice is the founding partner at RiceHadleyGates, LLC, an international strategic consulting firm based in Silicon Valley and Washington and has just joined the incoming ownership group for the Denver Broncos NFL team.

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When it comes to her private life, she never married and doesn’t have children. Asked why she never tied the knot, Rice says it is because she never found someone she could imagine spending her life with. In her memoir, she denied being gay, something people claimed, and says the rumor came from the fact that societies don’t easily accept when a woman simply decides not to marry.

“The simplest explanation, which is I actually never met anybody I wanted to live with and marry, doesn’t seem to be sufficient for people,” Rice explained.

“I don’t feel unfulfilled it didn’t happen. And I have always believed it is better to not have ended up in a bad marriage, which has happened to a lot of my friends who have just wanted to get married.”

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As of the children she never had, she wrote in her book The Faith of Condoleezza Rice, “You mean, did I ever want kids? No. I think maybe it’s because I’m an only child. I like children, but especially when they’re 18.

“I didn’t start out not to get married and have children. I don’t regret that I couldn’t pass on some of my genes, which sounds so incredibly narcissistic, but that I couldn’t pass on some of the opportunities.”

Condoleezza Rice achieved many great things in her life despite the obstacles the society imposed on her. She truly is a great role model to many.

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Woman in coma went to Heaven and met Jesus – She came back with a message from God

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Whether you believe in afterlife or not, the story of a woman who was practically pronounced dead but managed to survive will make you think about what truly happens when a person leaves this world.

It was March 2020 when a woman named Valerie Paters was ‘smashed’ by a semi-truck. Her car went under the heavy vehicle and she sustained severe injuries. When first responder arrived at the scene, they were certain Valerie wouldn’t survive.

Once at the hospital, her family was told that the chances of Valerie’s survival were slim. They didn’t have high hopes. Sometime later, they said that Valerie didn’t show any brain activity.

At the time doctors fought for her life, the members of the church she attended, together with her family, united in prayer.

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Valerie’s sister, Cheryl, never lost hope. Instead, she turned to God and asked him to help her sister pull through. Cheryl claimed Psalm 118:17 in the Scripture for her sister, where it said, “I will not die but live, and will proclaim what the LORD has done.” Little did she know is that her prayer would work in a miraculous way.

As her loved ones on Earth were waiting for her to recover, Valerie went through a heavenly experience. According to her, she went to Heaven, describing it as with a blinding light.

Once she opened her eyes, this woman said that it was Jesus himself who welcomed her to Heaven while he was smiling at her.

“I felt all this emotion that He had for me,” she recalled. “I felt like I was finally home… like I stepped into, finally, I belong.”

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“He just wants me,” she said of Jesus. “It wasn’t anything that I did for Him. It wasn’t my performance. Nothing. It was just me, I wasn’t just loved by Him. But He was in love with me.”

Valerie’s words stunned everyone. She even explained what happened when Jesus told her to go back to Earth.

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An innocent man was sentenced to 19 years, but after the judge reexamined the evidence in his case, he ordered that the man be set free

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Richard Anthony Jones led a quiet life in Missouri, but it all changed when he was arrested one day and charged with an aggravated robbery, a crime he claimed he had nothing to do with.

There was nothing this man didn’t do in order to prove his innocence, but somehow, because of all the circumstances, he failed each time. According to him, at the time the robbery was done, Richard was at his girlfriend’s place together with other people. They all witnessed that Richard had spent the entire night with them, but that didn’t help.

Eventually, after a witness confirmed it was Richard who commited the crime, with no fingerprints or physical evidence found at the scene, he was sentenced to 19 years in prison. It was the year 1999 when Richard started serving his sentence at a prison with highest level of security.

Jones appealed and lost. Then he learned about the Midwest Innocence Project, which partners with the University of Kansas’ Project for Innocence.

Those involved with the project did a thorough research and they finally learned of a man named Ricky Lee Amos who looked exactly like Jones. One would assume they are twins when looking at side-by-side photos of the two.

It was discovered that Amos lived at the address where the crime was reported to had happened, and that made everyone even more suspicious.

When mugshots of both Jones and Amos were shown to the eyewitness after all those years, they were unable to say with certainty that Jones was the robber.

This resulted with the judge tossing out Jones’ conviction. He was freed from prison on June 8, 2017. “I hoped and prayed every day for this day to come, and when it finally got here it was an overwhelming feeling,” Jones told ABC News.

Jones’ case was the first to be resolved under a new mistaken-conviction statute that went into effect earlier in 2018, according to the attorney general’s office.

“We are committed to faithfully administering the new mistaken-conviction statute the legislature enacted,” the attorney general’s office statement read. “In this case, it was possible on the existing record to resolve all issues quickly, satisfy all of the statute’s requirements, and agree to this outcome so Mr. Jones can receive the benefits to which he is entitled by law because he was mistakenly convicted.”

For being wrongfully convicted, Jones received $1.1 million.

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Disgraced singer R. Kelly learns his fate as he is sentenced for his sex crimes

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R&B singer R. Kelly was found guilty of multiple federal charges including racketeering and sex trafficking and was sentenced to 30 years in prison. Survivors of Kelly’s abuse held hands and prayed as US District Court Judge Ann Donnelly began reading his sentence.

Among them were victims who were only identified as “Jane Does.”

“You made me do things that broke my spirit. I literally wished I would die because of how low you made me feel. Do you remember that,” one of the victims’ statement read, according to Billboard.

“I remember him asking me my age,” another victim, Stephanie, testified. “When I said I was 17, he said it was fine.” She went on to recall Kelly sexually abusing her in the studio and recording it. On her 18th birthday, the two met yet again after he paid to have her fly out to see him. “She described fearing his angry outbursts, saying he would yell at her in public places,” as a result, she stopped communicating with the R&B singer.

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When Kelly married now late wife Aaliyah back in 1994, he was 27 and she was only 15, but he paid someone to create a fake ID which showed Aaliyah was 18 at the time.

While he was awaiting his trial, Kelly was held at the Chicago’s Metropolitan Correctional Center.

On August 26, an incident report from the US Bureau of Prisons showed Kelly was ambushed by gang member Jeremiah Shane Farmer as he slept on the bottom bunk of his prison cell. Farmer apparently started stomping on the singer’s head repeatedly, according to the document Kelly’s attorney Steven Greenberg filed to get his client released on bail at the time of the incident.

“This is an inmate that never should have been anywhere near Mr. Kelly, an individual who is charged with the most violent of crimes, and one who plainly has no respect for the rules, he has the phrase ‘Fuck The Feds’ tattooed on his face. Extravagant gifts rappers have given rappers,” Kelly’s attorney said.

The attorneys further claimed that a footage from the beating showed that the attacker was able to ‘roam a great distance’ away from the guards and “no one at the MCC raised a finger to stop Mr. Farmer from attacking Mr. Kelly until after Mr. Farmer was well into beating.”

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Later, according to court documents obtained by The Chicago Tribune, it was reported that Farmer was ‘forced’ to attack Kelly “in hopes of getting spotlight attention and world news notice to shed light on the government corruption.”

According to Kelly’s attorney, “It appears that MCC personnel simply followed Mr. Farmer, allowed him to carry out the attack, and then only intervened after Mr. Kelly had already sustained serious injuries.”

Although found guilty of all charges, Kelly has always maintained his innocence. During the reading of his verdict, the singer appeared to have no reaction after receiving the sentence.

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Serious problems for Céline Dion – She can no longer walk and weighs only 85 pounds

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Céline Dion‘s close family and friends reported that the singer is experiencing severe health issues which forced her to postpone her tour. According to a source cited by Here Magazine, she is no longer able to walk due to “severe and persistent muscle spasms” that have recently worsened.

“She can no longer get out of bed, nor move, nor walk. She suffers from pain in her legs and feet that paralyze her. She is very weak and has lost a lot of weight,” the source said. “It’s a disease that can require long convalescence. If things don’t improve, she could be away for several months or even a year. Because her symptoms are more worrying than expected.”

In a heartfelt Instagram post, the singer herself wrote: “My heart is broken by this situation. My team and I have been working on our new show for eight months and not being able to take the stage in November saddens me beyond words.”

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The Canadian superstar’s tour, Courage, was a huge success in September 2019, but in January 2022, she canceled the remaining North American dates due to the persistent muscle spasm she has been experiencing for some time now. This time, she informed her fans that her progress with treating her condition is taking longer than expected. “The good news is that I am doing a little bit better…but it’s going very slow. And it’s very frustrating for me. You know I’m getting treatment from my doctors, taking medication, but I’m still experiencing some spasms, and it’s taking a lot longer for me to recover than I had hoped,” she said.

The Grammy Award winner ended her post by sending support to Ukraine and its people.

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After the health issues she experienced, Dion announced that her tour would begin in May 2022, but the shows have now been pushed back to February 2023. At the same time, she delayed her Las Vegas residency.

Ever since the passing of her husband, fans have been worried for Dion, who is way skinnier than a normal person should be. According to reports, the superstar only weighs around 85 pounds. In the past, she didn’t pay much attention to the negative comments and claimed she loved the way she looks. However, her appearance did concern many.

We truly hope Dion would be able to perform in the near future.

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