Plastic water bottles are so common nowadays and it’s incredibly important to recycle them responsibly, but who would have thought that it was so important to remove them from your vehicle, and your life may depend on it!A man from Idaho learned his lesson when that fateful discarded plastic water bottle in his car didn’t just make the car untidy, but it can really cause serious damage. How possibly can a water bottle be so dangerous you say? After all isn’t water good for you?
That innocent water bottle acts just like a magnifying glass, it can concentrate the power of the sun into a fine beam of light that can start a fire frighteningly quick! All of a sudden you’re back seat or flooring are on fire, and when the fire starts it really is surprising how quickly it can engulf the whole car!
Idaho Power’s employee had a glimpse of this scarey experience and so the company decided to raise awareness and share the story on Facebook. Many people were not aware of this danger and the video has had 1000’s of views and 100’s of shares!
The technician, called Dioni Amuchastegu, was in his truck on a lunch break when he noticed smoke out of the corner of his eye, but he was unaware of the true gravity of the situation. As he looked carefully he saw the water bottle concentrating the sunlight to the point of burning the passenger seat.
Light was just shining through the driver’s side window and shone right through (the water bottle) and burned those two spots in the seat right there.
The two burnt and blackened holes in the technicians seat show that without a doubt this unexpected accident was the result of simply leaving a water bottle laying in the vehicle.
Many people have commented about the Facebook post and this unexpected occurrence, before this I bet none of them had even considered this could happen, a water bottle starting a fire in your vehicle, who would have thought it right?
Moving between two homes for the remainder of their young years, like things couldn’t get any worse between quarreling parents, but then they start dating! Love and marriage, go together like a horse and carriage? But, divorce rates in America over the last few decades are around a staggering 50 percent!As emotions escalate between husband and wife it’s the children who feel the repercussions of a shattered world around them. That, and when the parents start dating as if things could really get any worse?
Well, we don’t normally hear about or even see broken families that are perfectly happy, however, in this case, there are really amazing stories from a mom, divorced, who has discovered a great way to cope with ex-husband’s new girlfriend.The past was not how Brittney Johnson had envisaged it would be, her marriage with her hubby had come to an all but abrupt end, but gifted them a beautiful daughter Payton, some small reward for their time together maybe.
Brittney recently wrote on facebook and gave a shout out to the perfectly unlikely father in her daughter’s life, daddy’s newest girlfriend, called Kayla. So, starting with such a simple, however, profound question:
“To all of the mothers out there who throw a fit when another woman treats your child as her own …why isn’t that exactly what you want?”
Now, this is plenty, meaningful, sincere words to leave a lot of us speechless right? After all, there really is no good enough motive, besides sour grapes and vengeance, but, it doesn’t stop there.
Brittney continues to elaborate, throwing a spanner in the works, she says that all her prayers have been answered in the type of woman her ex-hubby is dating:
“I prayed one night for the type of woman my daughter’s father would be with, knowing that she would be raised in two homes.”
“Kayla has been a gift of so much more than I could have hoped for.”
Facebook/Brittney JohnsonBack to Kayla, who is a nursing student, and is a great example to their daughter Payton. Every single day Payton sees Kayla working tirelessly towards her goal, on top of giving love and consideration towards the family.
Brittney said:
“… I’m raising a strong girl, a smart girl, and a sweet girl. And I want nothing more than for her to be surrounded with role models who are exactly that.”
“Thank you Kayla for showing Payton how to chase her dreams, how to work hard and stay up late to study for a test.”
“Thank you for still making time to ride her bike with her and make her mac and cheese even in one of the stressful times of your life.”
Kayla had even bought a nurses uniform for little Payton so they could play nurses together, this surely is a huge sincere gesture in many ways, and also a way to make a proud mother of her little girl.
Brittney went on to say about Kayla:
“You’re a true role model and an amazing bonus mom and we are so proud of you!”
Facebook/Brittney JohnsonBrittney’s powerful words, as parting advice, seem to be as sincere as the question she asked at the start of her post.
So she asks all parents in a similar position:
“If you’re co-parenting, and seeing your child doing things like this doesn’t bring a smile to your face, reconsider what’s truly best for your child.”
“Payton has more people to love her this way, and what more could a mother ever want for her child?”
“Being best friends with me AND being best friends with Kayla, is exactly where P deserves to be. It takes a village, and I happen to love mine.”The message Brittney posted has gone viral, shared by almost 50,000 times with 100’s of thousands of people reacting to it on Facebook, what a powerful message don’t you think?
A Russian Man by the name of Slava, whilst driving his car one day saw something weird on the road in front of him. It was a cold snowy day being the third day of January (2017), he was reported to say;
I thought it was an animal and it must be freezing in this weather
The frozen fur ball was in fact a kitten crying for help, but cars kept passing without paying any attention to it. Slava said;
It was very cold, so I wrapped her up in a towel and brought her back to my car. I turned up the heat to full capacity to help remove the frost on her coat
Slava then took the fur ball of a kitten home with him and dug out some warm soft blankets, a lamp, and a small radiator, the cat who he decided to call “Nika” was showing her appreciation, she could not stop pushing herself against Slava affectionately, purring contently and constantly.He took her to the vet to get her checked out properly and unfortunately she had to have her tail amputated!
She knew that we were trying to help. She was patient, did not complain and was very sweet the whole time
Nika really is one happy content cat with an amazing home with Slava, who dotes over her, and what an amazing day they both found each other. It just goes to show that a cold winter’s day can ultimately bring joy in the most unexpected ways!Slava, a Russian man saw something in the road while he was driving…“I thought it was an animal and it must be freezing in this weather”Many cars passed but Slava was the only one to discover it was a kitty cat!“It was very cold, so I wrapped her up in a towel and brought her back to my car”Then, took her home with him and dug out some warm soft blankets, a lamp, and a small radiatorThe cat he called Nika saw the vet and they amputated her frostbitten tail“She knew that we were trying to help. She was patient, did not complain and was very sweet the whole time”Nika really is one happy content cat with an amazing home with Slava, who dotes over her!It just goes to show that a cold winter’s day can ultimately bring joy in the most unexpected ways!Watch the video here:
Chauncey Black, a starving 16 year old teenager, was going to do something bold, something he had never done before, but desperate times require desperate measures so he thought hard and long about a solution to his problem, he had to do something!
Chauncey scrimped his little money together to buy a bus pass to get him to the “rich” part of town, with no money to his name and empty pockets he caught the bus and made his way to the Highland Kroger.
Once inside the grocery store he approached strangers to ask one simple request, he asked to carry their shopping to the car, and in payment he just wanted a pack of donuts, this simple request turned out to change his life!
The teenager was in a position most of us couldn’t conceive having to live with. He had a home with his mother, but he didn’t have anything at all to eat, he was completely starved.
He felt his only option was to offer work in exchange for food and picking a Kroger grocery store in an affluent neighborhood seemed a logical choice, he never knew that a chance encounter would forever change his life.
Well, while inside the grocery store, one stranger he asked was Matt White, this kind stranger was moved by the bold ingenuity of this young man.
He said:
This kid looked like he had been turned down 100 times. He looked ashamed, hungry and broken. In my heart I screamed a loud “yes!”, but to him I just chuckled and said, “yeah dude, we’ll get you some donuts.
Matt discovered quickly that the teenager didn’t have a phone, just a bus pass and a hungry mother waiting for him at home, completely depending on the kindness of a stranger to help him before the bus would take him home in the hour.
Matt wasn’t prepared to just give the teen some donuts, he really needed a helping hand, so what was he going to do? Well, he loaded up the shopping cart with all sorts of goodies Chauncy could take back home to his mother.
So, needless to say, he and I went on a shopping spree. We had so much fun! We got cereal and chips and frozen veggies, pizzas, Cheetos, melons and pasta, peanut butter, milk, soap, toothbrushes, just a little bit of everything.
During the time Matt spent with the teenager he found out that Chauncy was a straight-A student and was trying to get a job to help his mom pay the rent, and besides the rough start he had been unfortunate to experience he had ambitious dreams of helping others that were also in need.
This kid was amazing. Chauncy kept calling himself poor, but he told me that one day he was gonna be wealthy and own his own businesses so that he could help other people in his neighborhood and buy them groceries like me. I was in awe.
I gave him a ride home so that he didn’t have to take the bus and when we got to his house I was truly humbled. He wasn’t kidding. He and his mom had nothing. They didn’t even have beds or furniture. They were sleeping on pads made out of sleeping bags, they had two lamps and nothing in their fridge.
Matt saw that Chauncy’s mom was very ill and fragile, she shook uncontrollably and she had great difficulty walking.
Chauncy and Matt were unpacking the groceries when Matt saw hope come back into Chauncy’s eyes!
As I was leaving I gave him a hug and told him how much God loved him and that he was going to grow up to be an incredible man. I’ll never forget that hug. It meant more to me than any possession I have.
That “goodbye” however wasn’t really the end of this amazing story. Matt setup a GoFundMe account to help raise money for all the necessities that the family desperately needed.
Chauncy was ashamed of his tattered clothes and needed pants for his mom, he also needed a $10 Ross gift card for himself, but he actually got an incredible $341K raised in response to this family’s basic needs.
Finally Chauncy could purchase the equipment he needed to start his own lawn mowing business, now he can finally get a real bed to sleep in.
See the video to get more insights about Chauncy’s incredible story!
LOOK!!!!! AHHHH!!!!!!!It's happening!!!! In 3 weeks Chauncy went from no mower, no support, no resources to this!!! Look how incredible this community is!! How good our city and God's people are!! It's so unbelievable!!!! Thank you Rob!!! You are a living angel!! Thank you everyone!!! Look at him go!!! Hahahahaha!!!! Yes!!!!
Matt not only helped Chauncy and his mother, but the response from social media was incredible as well. Despite a huge amount of money was raised on his behalf, Chauncy still wanted to start his own business so that he could finally be self-sufficient and help others!
If YOU saw a baby’s foot just visible from underneath a blanket inside a roasting hot car, what would you do?In Keene, New Hampshire, in a shopping centre, a thoughtful and worried citizen, without a second thought called the police to report what she had seen.
Waiting by the vehicle patiently until the police arrived, it wasn’t long before Lt. Jason Short was there beside the car, but what he did next made the car owner hot and bothered!
Lt. Short gained access to the vehicle by breaking a window and carefully but quickly pulling the baby from the car seat. The Officer was feeling the pressure of the situation but diligently followed his CPR training, after discovering the baby was unresponsive and had no pulse.
While performing CPR the Officer noticed that there was something not quite right about the baby, the baby really did look real, but the skin wasn’t quite right, it was plastic!
The realistic baby was in fact a “reborn doll” and was completely realistic in every detail, such a realistic facsimile could so easily be mistaken for a real baby. The authenticity of these dolls makes them so expensive and the $2,300 doll the officer was holding was no exception.
The owner of the realistic doll quickly ran to her car where people were now congregating, now any normal circumstances you would think that the owner of the doll would be apologetic or even understanding right?No, she was not the least bit and was quite upset that the officer had broken her window in her car!
Many people who own these dolls put a notice in their car to inform people that the dolls are lifelike but not real facsimiles of a baby. But the woman’s doll, called Ainslie, had been left in the car without any warnings and Lt. Short felt confident he had acted correctly.
The Police department agreed to pay for the damages in this case, but police departments spread across the country are warning people to use the reborn dolls with a sense of responsibility to make it clear that the doll is not a real baby.
Surely, responsible doll owners do not want to create panic, or have people contact the police and waste their valuable time, or even have to break into a vehicle like in New Hampshire Shopping Centre.
Just imagine for a moment that you’ve been searching for years to find your biological family, without success, then all of a sudden, in your retirement you meet your long lost brother.What words could express how you feel?What would you do?Would you have the same mannerisms?
Shelly Foster knew from a childhood age that had been adopted, but, she didn’t know from whom, until she had finished high school she didn’t the slightest idea what to do next in her life, at the time the military seemed like a good option.
Heading to her local U.S. Air Force recruitment she then saw, for the very first time, her birth certificate during enrollment.
She then learned her birth name as it was on her birth certificate, “Ruth Mary Anthes”, which made her bring into question many other things in her life that she didn’t really know anything about.
The next step then, once she took the decision to try to locate her birth family, was to begin the long, hard task of searching, times as they were made it difficult though.
Whenever she went to a new place she would head straight to the phone book, to lookup anyone with the last name “Anthes”.
Then the internet came along, and finally brought about some progress
… she found a match!
A bittersweet discovery came when she found her mother’s obituary, she had missed the chance to hug the woman who brought her into this life, BUT she was not alone, she had a half brother called Fredric Vanderwoude.
Shelly’s children came to her aid and found her brother living in Breckenridge, Texas. He agreed without hesitation to take a DNA test which gave a 100% biological match making it clear that they did share the same mother and father!
Shelly and her newly found brother talked on the phone, this was such an exciting time looking into the future, she had finally found her closest blood relation besides her parents, they decided to meet!
She spent 60 years searching for her biological family before she could be reunited, that moment she so desperately sought soon approached.
So, Shelly headed to Shreveport, Louisiana, where she finally got to meet her biological family.The moment they met was completely breathtaking, Shelly told the NWF Daily News:
I looked into his eyes and saw me. We both had hazel eyes. He hugged me and said, ‘Where have you been all of my life?
Could you imagine that moment if it were you? What would you think, feel?
22-year-old Cayla Chandara has always wanted to pursue her dreams of graduating from college, but things weren’t easy for her and she ended up working two jobs just to be able to save enough money to attend school and make ends meet.
She lived in Santa Rosa, California, but moved places to Waikiki, Hawaii where she worked as a waitress at a Noi Tai Cusine and a Cheesecake Factory.
One day, an Australian couple visited Noi Tai Cusine and Chandara engaged with them in a friendly conversation, but little did she know that the encounter would change her life forever.
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Chandara shared with them her life story and told them how much she wanted to pursue a career in business and graduate from school. It was obvious the customers were very polite and enjoyed speaking to Chandara so when the time came for them to pay the bill, they left a very generous tip. Along with the $200 they had to pay, they gave Chandara additional $400 which was double their bill.
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“I was then at a loss for words and all I wanted to do was hug them,” Chandara told CBS News.
Chandara was so grateful that she felt like she should thank those kind strangers again. So, after her night shift was over, she stopped by the hotel they told her they were staying at.
“I genuinely wanted to say thank you,” Chandara said. “I sent a thank you letter saying how much it meant to me.”
She left the letter at the hotel’s front desk and never expected to see the couple again. But, the next day, they returned at Chandara’s restaurant and told her something that left her completely speechless. They were willing to give her $10,000 dollars to pay for her student loans and get back to school.
She just couldn’t believe what she was hearing.
“I initially told them I couldn’t take that offer, but they insisted that it would be just as great for them to do it for me,” Chandara said.
That meant Chandara could finally fulfill her dreams. That was the best thing someone has ever done for her and she felt like she had to repay for this huge kindness.
“They told me the best way to thank them is to be my best possible self, dream big and strive for my goals,” Chandara said.
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The couple wanted to remain anonymous, but their action and how they changed Chandara’s life is widely spread.
“They have truly changed my life, not only financially but in the way I look at things. They are the most beautiful and kind-hearted people I’ve come across and I really look up to them and I can’t wait until they watch me graduate,” Chandara said.
Chandara’s story is just a proof that there are still people out there who truly believe that kindness is what moves this world around. And we are so glad they are here to restore our faith in humanity.
“Always be genuine. You will get it right back. Good things happen,” Chandara said.
The moment they welcome them into the world, babies become mom’s most precious jewels. And the love and devotion mothers give to their bundles of joy can’t be measured.
Gemma Kate is a baby girl who is showered with love every single day. Needless to say, most of the affection and devotion comes from her loving mommy who doesn’t miss a chance to tell Gemma she loves her to the moon and back. And this wouldn’t really be surprising if Gemma doesn’t say “I love you” in return.
We are so glad the video of these two expressing their deepest feelings for one another was caught on tape, otherwise it would be hard to believe that a baby is really able to say those words.
If you wonder how is it possible for such a young child to speak, the Babycenter has an explanation. According to them, children Gemma’s age (she was 15 months old when the video was taken) are able to form basic sounds of words. Their website says, “The first proper word is often said around the baby’s first birthday. First words are usually simple names or easy to say objects. Nouns usually come first, like ‘ball.’
These words don’t always sound like those adults speak, but Gemma here is able to perfectly repeat what her mom says. Same pitch, same words, simply adorable.
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Gemma melted our hearts. We hope she will always be able to express her love for her parents this way.
With all the negative stuff happening in the world, Gemma Kate will remind you that no matter what, life is really beautiful and we have to learn how to be happy for the little things, such as her reaction that made our day.
“I thought it was an animal and it must be freezing in this weather”
Many cars passed but Slava was the only one to discover it was a kitty cat!
“It was very cold, so I wrapped her up in a towel and brought her back to my car”
Then, took her home with him and dug out some warm soft blankets, a lamp, and a small radiator
The cat he called Nika saw the vet and they amputated her frostbitten tail
“She knew that we were trying to help. She was patient, did not complain and was very sweet the whole time”
Nika really is one happy content cat with an amazing home with Slava, who dotes over her!
It just goes to show that a cold winter’s day can ultimately bring joy in the most unexpected ways!
Watch the video here:
The teenager was in a position most of us couldn’t conceive having to live with. He had a home with his mother, but he didn’t have anything at all to eat, he was completely starved.
He felt his only option was to offer work in exchange for food and picking a Kroger grocery store in an affluent neighborhood seemed a logical choice, he never knew that a chance encounter would forever change his life.
Well, while inside the grocery store, one stranger he asked was Matt White, this kind stranger was moved by the bold ingenuity of this young man.
He said:
Matt not only helped Chauncy and his mother, but the response from social media was incredible as well. Despite a huge amount of money was raised on his behalf, Chauncy still wanted to start his own business so that he could finally be self-sufficient and help others!
