Homeless Man Rewarded $184k+ For Returning Engagement Ring_Reunited With Family

Homeless Man Rewarded $184,000+ For Returning Diamond Engagement Ring
Reunited With Family For The First Time In 16 years

Billy Ray Harris

Daily Mail
March 25, 2013

A homeless man who returned a diamond engagement ring to its owner has seen his family for the first time in 16 years after his kind gesture made headlines around the world. Billy Ray Harris was being interviewed about how he returned the ring to Sarah Darling after she accidentally dropped it into his collection cup in Kansas City, Missouri. But he was left virtually speechless when his long-lost siblings who live 640 miles away in Texas entered the set during the middle of the TV interview. Billy Ray Harris hugs his sister after being reunited with his siblings for the first time in 16 years   •   Billy Ray Harris kept the ring safe after a woman mistakenly dropped it •   Sarah Darling and her husband setup a fundraising page for Harris •   Website raised $180,000 enabling Harris to buy a house and to get a job •   Publicity about Harris' good deed helped his sister to reconnect with him •   Harris and his siblings reunited in emotional meeting live on TV Website was initially set up to raise $4,000.00 the same amount offered by a Jeweler to buy the ring from Billy Ray Harris

Billy Ray Harris returning a ring to Sarah Darling

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2298737/Homeless-man-received-180k-returning-diamond-engagement-reunited-family-time-16-years.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Posted: at 26-03-2013 05:55 AM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Ohhhh good man.. It pays to do gud. A homeless man has becum a lanlord. May GOD bless him

Posted: at 26-03-2013 06:41 AM (12 years ago) | Addicted Hero

Ok

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Posted: at 26-03-2013 07:13 AM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac

There is reward in being honest...

Posted: at 26-03-2013 07:29 AM (12 years ago) | Hero

this will never happen in a corrupt sticken nigeria

Posted: at 26-03-2013 07:39 AM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Honesty...he best policy

Posted: at 26-03-2013 08:11 AM (12 years ago) | Newbie

Amen

Posted: at 26-03-2013 08:41 AM (12 years ago) | Hero

Where were u wen dis story was first posted on this forum fews months back? Abeg do ur research and stop posting old and forgotten stories all in d name " I wanna belong" dur!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted: at 26-03-2013 09:33 AM (12 years ago) | Upcoming

Nice one!

Posted: at 26-03-2013 10:14 AM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac

I have seen people drop things in the street in Lagos by accident (even money) and ran after them and returned it to them.

We have thousands of decent and honest Nigerians.

We do not look for praise because honesty is the best policy.

Posted: at 26-03-2013 10:40 AM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac