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Video: Good Samaritan Gives Stranger Shirt Off His Back On Subway
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Ben Yakas
Published Jan 10, 2016
Modified Jan 10, 2016
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In this post-Zardulu world, it's increasingly difficult to tell what is real and what is a beautiful dream in a drab waking universe. But putting aside the nature of reality, it's still always nice to see New Yorkers extending acts of kindness to one another. One man says he spotted just such an exchange on Friday, when he captured video of an alleged good Samaritan taking off his shirt and giving it to a shirtless straphanger.
Miren este Video Wow 🏻 Este hombre se merese muchas bendisiones por la buena accion que Hizo 🏻 Dios Lo bendiga amen☺️ y aPrendan y Lo hizo sin esperar nada acambio 🏼🏼☺️ nesesitamos más personas como el SI ALGUIEN LO CONOSE ETIQuETELO 🏻 God bless him
Posted by Läzaro El Feo on Friday, January 8, 2016
"It was just us on the train," Lazaro Nolasco, the video's uploader, told the Daily News. Nolasco got on the A train at Washington Heights around 10 p.m. Friday when he witnessed the encounter. "The guy didn’t have a shirt on. His body looked sick," Nolasco added.
Nolasco said he couldn't hear the entire conversation between the two men, but he did overhear the good Samaritan ask the man if he needed a shirt and whether he wanted to go to the hospital. "The guy did a good deed, so I wanted to record it,” Nolasco said, explaining why he took the video from afar. "I would tell him, 'God bless him.' That was thoughtful."
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