Remember the days when doing a good deed was a good thing? Unfortunately, in some places that is only a memory.
On Friday, CBS News in Baltimore reported on two men who rescued a deer that had fallen into the Patapsco River on Thursday night.
The article reports:
"We seen the deer going under," said Khalil Abusakran. "It couldn't maintain. It was starting to freeze, and it was really getting bad."
The two men got a raft and rescued the deer. After the rescue was complete, a natural resources police officer on the scene (who had watched the entire rescue) wrote both men a ticket.
The article further states:
"The ticket itself doesn't check off any specific violation, just a $90 fine."
The men were told that the ticket was for not wearing life vests, although both are above the age where that is a requirement.
This is just wrong. The way it should have happened is that the national resources police officer should have helped with the rescue and after he was off duty, they all went out for a beer. That would have made much more sense.
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