Watch how strangers came together to help an elderly man with road troubles
Everyone has bad days. For one elderly man hauling timber in his pickup truck, this day was off to a rough start.
While driving down a busy road in Merritt Island, Florida, his entire load of wooden beams fell onto the road behind the truck, causing a moment of panic in the street. Instead of just watching the elderly gentleman try to manually reload the wood himself, strangers began to get out of their cars left and right to assist. Many hands make light work as they say, and the extra help made it a quick cleanup!
The woman who filmed the video was so inspired by this random act of kindness from her boyfriend and others that she decided to pull out her phone to capture the moment.
"We live in a time where people would rather gawk and stare rather than help anyone, it was a moment of excitement to see all these gentleman coming to the aid of the older man" she reflected.
Timber falls, but kindness always rises to the occasion!
Watch how strangers came together to help an elderly man with road troubles below.
Take a moment to watch these other random acts of kindness captured on camera!
During Random Acts of Kindness Week, starting on February 9, we celebrate the many good deeds that help make the world a better place. The phrase 'practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty' was coined in 1982 by magazine writer and editor Anne Herbert.
Thirteen years later, her words inspired the creation of Random Acts of Kindness Week by the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation, encouraging people to be kind and pay it forward.
There are many ways to participate in Random Acts of Kindness Week, from big gestures like donating blood to simpler acts like paying for a stranger’s coffee or walking a friend’s dog.
Whatever you do, the goal is to make kindness the norm for the week and beyond, because we all benefit when kindness and generosity become a way of life. You can share your own acts of kindness with us on social media using the hashtag #RandomActsofHumankind.
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This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Random Acts of Kindness: Strangers help driver pick up spilled cargo
