College athletics include steroid scandals and murder
charges.
Four football players from William Paterson
University went shopping at a store in Wayne, N.J., on Aug. 25. After trying to
locate the store clerk, two of the players who needed sunglasses and batteries
were captured on store security cameras leaving money at the register.
Buddy’s Small Lots store manager, Marci Lederman, was
taken by their honesty. “They picked up a few items, and they left cash on the
counter and waved to the cameras. Who does that?” Thomas James, Kell’E Gallimore, Jelani Bruce and Anthony
Biondi do that.
“It
doesn’t surprise me that they did what they did,” said Jerry Flora, the
Pioneers’ head coach. “That’s the kind of kids we try and recruit in here.”
The players had actually entered a closed store.
Lederman said a lock on the front door had malfunctioned and a half-lit store
made it look open. Police phoned her to say an alarm had been tripped, but she
found nothing amiss.
“They could have ransacked the store. They could have
really done anything,” Lederman said. “They were perfect gentlemen. They were
looking to see if anyone was here.”
Lederman was so impressed that she called a local TV
station to share the surveillance video, which helped her identify the four
young men. On Tuesday, she rewarded each of them with $50 shopping sprees. “They were just very thankful and
grateful,” she said.
What would you have done in those circumstances?
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