An urgent call came into Jim's bar. A newly married woman, having spent the afternoon at the bar, couldn't find her wallet. She didn't care about her cash but her wedding ring inside.
With the determination to find the wallet, Jim spent hours going through the security-camera videos, watching the woman's every step in the bar until she left. Several minutes later, a teenager approached the bench, and slipped something into his pocket.
Jim posted the clip on Facebook. “I didn't want to punish him,” he said, “but to know who the guy was." Within hours, Jim got a text from a 17-year-old Peter. Peter admitted having taken the wallet and said he'd done it because he hadn't eaten for two days. He thought the ring was fake, so he took the cash to purchase a sandwich and threw the wallet off the public docks (码头) into the ocean.
Jim called Peter to meet him at the docks. Deep in conversation, he learned that Peter wasn't getting along with his family. Jim, a father of two kids, saw him for what he was: more of a kid than a criminal. However, because of the missing ring, the police were already on the spot. Peter could be facing charges and sent to prison. “I had to help him somehow.” a voice echoed in Jim's mind.
He sought the ring in the strong current, but over 2 hours passed with no sign of it. He hired local divers to search the waters where the wallet had been thrown. Fortunately, a diver emerged. In his hand was the wallet with the ring inside. Cheers erupted from the bystanders. The grateful wallet owner dropped the charges against Peter for stealing the ring.
“Most people would have given the video to the police, and he chose to help me.” Peter told CBS News. “I say thank you to him every day.”
