No Good Deed goes Unpunished

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London, Ontario: A cancer survivor was fined $2,260 for driving patients to and from hospital appointments

she’s provided about 20 round-trip rides a month at $12 per trip

The head of city bylaw enforcement, Orest Katolyk, confirms the city investigated after receiving a complaint and that charges were laid, but that he doesn’t discuss specific charges or operating techniques.

London city council created a vehicle-for hire bylaw in April to deal with the arrival of ride share giant Uber

 

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Another reason why local city councils should have been reined in long ago...

 

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Girl Scout ‘hero’ story has a bitter ending as Good Samaritan is nabbed on federal drug-trafficking charges

After noticing one of the girls was shivering in the cold, McGowan pulled his car up to the stand and gave the Girl Scouts $540 for all 129 boxes they had on hand, said Shannen Ludwig, the mother of one of the scouts.

"The gentleman pulled back up in his car and said, 'load up all your cookies, that little girl is cold,'" Ludwig told ABC News. "He said, 'load ‘em all up, I'm gonna buy them all."

 

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Beloved New Jersey principal and Army Reserve veteran, 44, dies in hospital while donating bone marrow to help save a 14-year-old boy in France who he had never met

Details of his death were not released by the school but it is understood to have been related to complications he suffered with the bone marrow extraction. Nelson went into cardiac arrest during the procedure and had to be placed into a medically induced coma.

 

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Waffle House good Samaritan shot to death paying for meals, handing out $20 bills

 

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EXCLUSIVE: 'She tried to kill us!' Indiana mother who adopted 6-year-old Ukrainian girl with dwarfism has been charged with abandonment but claims her 'daughter' was found to be a 22-year old 'sociopath' masquerading as a child

Kristine and Michael Barnett adopted Natalia Grace in 2010 thinking she was a 6-year-old Ukrainian child. Kristine now says Natalia is actually an adult “sociopath” who has tried to murder her multiple times

In June of 2012 the Barnetts successfully applied to Marion County Superior Court in Indianapolis, Indiana to have Natalia's age 'corrected' so she could receive the appropriate psychiatric treatment for an adult. In documents seen by DailyMailTV, Judge Gerald S. Zore accepted the couple's allegations were 'true' and revised Natalia's date of birth to September 4, 1989 - changing her age from eight to 22.

The Tippecanoe County Sheriff's Department meanwhile presents a very different version of events. A September 11 affidavit of probable cause obtained by DailyMailTV states that an expert at the Peyton Manning Children's Hospital named Dr. Riggs carried out bone density tests on Natalia in June 2010. It concluded she was aged approximately eight years old.

a couple named Antwon and Cynthia Mans unexpectedly applied to become Natalia's guardians which meant proving she was a minor and restoring her original birth date. The Barnetts filed an objection, claiming Natalia was an adult.
'This time the hearing was even more in depth, not only did the judge look at medical reports and other documents, but witnesses came before the court to explain why they were certain Natalia had been 22. The judge upheld the original results and the couple dropped the guardianship petition.