A Kansas City homeless man returned
an engagement ring dropped in his beggars cup by a woman. Her grateful fiancee
set up a website that's collected $145,000 so far for the homeless man which is still coming in.
A homeless man's decision to return a
woman's engagement ring after she accidentally dropped it in his cup is about
to pay big dividends.
Billy Ray Harris, who frequently
panhandles on Kansas City’s Country Club Plaza, discovered the ring after Sarah
Darling dumped spare change from her coin purse into his cup earlier this
month. Earlier that day, she had taken off her ring and put it with the coins.
Then after realizing what she'd done,
the woman returned to Harris and asked if he had the ring. He said yes and gave
it back to her.
"I just hope this results in
good things for you," said the woman.
When asked by the KCTV reporter why
he didn't pawn the ring, Harris responded: "My grandfather was a reverend
and he raised me from the time I was six months old and thank the Lord that
there's a blessing, I do still have some character."
Sarah Darling's fiance has set up a
website seeking donations for Harris. On Monday, as news spread of Harris'
honesty, people from around the world had donated more than $192,000 and more keeps coming in.
Harris is grateful but posed this
question to the Darling: "What has the world come to when a person returns
something that doesn't belong to them and all this happens?"
The publicity resulted in his sister,
who hadn't seen or heard from Harris in years, discovering that he was still
alive. "I want him to come home but we can't make him come home. But
I want him to know that we love him and we miss him."
Source: Kansas city reporter from KCTV news
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