A victim treats his mugger right

What an interesting story... he was just a mixed up kid.

The kid might have just been hungry. I hope it helps him.

I wonder what the kid's perspective was on the situation?

Turning the other cheek and loving his enemy, and/or actually seeing the kid as a troubled neighbor rather than an enemy

nice!

Heartwarming story, I wish more people in the world had that perspective of treating everyone with kindness.

so did the kid keep the wallet and the coat?

Read the story and you'll find out...

After reading this (and posting it, for that matter), I'm definitely more inclined to act the same way if in the same situation. Maybe it can work twice!

wow thats a strange course of events. I know I wouldn't have done anything even remotely similar to that, but it worked for him. good story and its nice to know that perhaps that kid may have learned valuable life lessons

this is the way i wish to be. and am trying to do so. but i dunno if i would behave the same way.

maybe now i may think about it if ever does happen.

Thats an awesome story, makes me almost have faith in humanity.... ah crap, accidentally flipped to Fox Noise, so much for that....

You guys, why would you assume the kid wanted a life of misery? Of course the kid's life's a mess. Of course he's got problems - everyone doing that sort of thing does. Wouldn't you think he wants help? Needs help? He's desperate because people have turned their back on him, now he's conditioned as a result of internalizing the victimization he suffered, and become the victimizer - of sorts. We need to have compassion for our fellow man, and woman, not scorn and rejection.

I' going to make an excellent analogy here: if Diaz were Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, Rice, the country of Israel, the list just goes on, Tony Blair, what do you think the headline would have been?

"Mugger Nuked!"

"A man saved his life with quick thinking and his .50 caliber machine gun, cutting in half an armed 'militant' who was attempting to mug him"

"One less 'terrorist' to worry about!"

"Insurgent blown to pieces on train platform"

Yes, it could have ended in all sorts of different ways. This guy has compassion for his fellow man. My hats off to him!

Some years back, I caught a guy stealing our newspaper, I charged after him and quickly realized he was "down on his luck" so to speak. So, I gave him money to buy one for himself. You should have seen the look on his face - knowing that I caught him stealing but gave him money anyway! Was I rewarding bad behavior? Hell no! That mentality, echoed by the Busheney (cold hearts) administration, is a bunch of crap!

I should say here that one must distinguish between a person who needs help, and one who lacks morality - but even that person needs help of a different kind, also.

I was in Santa Cruz, CA where a woman in a wheel chair was begging for money. I could tell what she was in need of wasn't necessarily money although, she looked pretty shabby, that wasn't what she needed. I told her I wouldn't give her money, but I'd give her a hug. I did and she beamed. I made her day.

Come on people now. You are either part of the problem, or part of the solution!

A few years back, some really good policeman in Canada decided to learn more about the homeless people on their streets, so they began to talk to them and try to understand them. What they found was that by showing those homeless people respect, by giving them respect, they began to change, and develop self-esteem - not yet like a normal mainstream person, but they were improving. Eventually, some of them actually moved off the streets and began returning to a normal life.

The point is, you make the world what it is in the smallest things you do, in the attitudes you hold. Be careful, mindful of the consequences you make for us all.

i applaud this man. he was brave enough to try this and it worked. hats off to him. why cant the rest of the world try this as well?????????