THE FOX AND THE RAVEN

A story about a fox and a raven which urges us not to trust anyone who is trying to deceive us. ?

The raven seized a piece of cheese and carried his spoils up to his perch high in a tree. A fox came up and walked in circles around the raven, planning a trick. ‘What is this?’ cried the fox. ‘O raven, the elegant proportions of your body are remarkable, and you have a complexion that is worthy of the king of the birds! If only you had a voice to match, then you would be first among the fowl!’ The fox said these things to trick the raven and the raven fell for it: he let out a great squawk and dropped his cheese. By thus showing off his voice, the raven let go of his spoils. The fox then grabbed the cheese and said, ‘O raven, you do have a voice, but no brains to go with it!’
If you follow your enemies’ advice, you will get hurt.

NYPD Cop Buys Homeless Man Boots

With all the police horror stories we are constantly deluged with, a story about a good cop is sometimes necessary to remind everyone that there are still police out there who don’t take part in the crazed, lunatic brute-cop goon-squad mentality, and who instead stand up for humanity, freedom and what is right.

Enter Jennifer Foster and her cellphone camera. According to a post that appeared on the NYPD’s Facebook page, she and her husband visited New York’s Time Square earlier this month and stumbled upon an interesting photo opportunity where a selfless act of kindness was being perpetrated by none other than one of “New York’s finest.”

“Right when I was about to approach, one of your officers came up behind him. The officer said, ‘I have these size 12 boots for you, they are all-weather. Let’s put them on and take care of you.’ The officer squatted down on the ground and proceeded to put socks and the new boots on this man. The officer expected NOTHING in return and did not know I was watching,” the post on the NYPD’s Facebook pagesays.

Since then, the tale of the altruistic cop’s act has garnered massive popularity, and been a major driver of traffic to the department’s Facebook page “boosting subscribers to the department’s 5-month-old page by 7,000, to 95,000,” the Huffington Post reports.

As Foster’s post explains, she’s also in law enforcement, but has never witnessed such a courageous, charitable act: “I have been in law enforcement for 17 years. I was never so impressed in my life.”

At the time the photo was posted, NYPD had no idea who the officer was, but it began attracting massive hits almost immediately, unexpectedly catapulting officer Larry DePrimo into Internetstardom, albeit unbeknownst to him.

The post went up Tuesday night, and “By Wednesday evening, the post had been viewed 1.6 million times, and had attracted nearly 275,000 “likes” and more than 16,000 comments,” reports the New York Times. Total “likes” as of writing this stand at 391,108.

“It was freezing out and you could see the blisters on the man’s feet,” DePrimo recalled during an interview. “I had two pairs of socks and I was still cold.”

According to the Huffington Post, it was then the officer decided to go to a store and pick up some boots for the man: “The officer walked to a Skechers store on 42nd Street and shelled out $75 for insulated winter boots and thermal socks. He returned to the man, knelt down and put the footwear on him.”

Deprimo says the man “smiled from ear to ear,” adding, “It was like you gave him a million dollars.” The officer also told Newsday, “I didn’t think anything of it.”

Earlier today, we reported on another surprising good cop story in which an Albany County Deputy Sherriff upheld his oath to protect the rights laid out in the Constitution.

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