It’s good to see the mainstream news reporting stories on skaters doing good. I don’t know how I missed this story; it’s a few weeks old, but it’s Saturday and I think it deserves to be shared. So a young lady was out biking one day and she lost her cell phone. Most of us have had this experience before – once I left my phone in a cab in Boston and the cabby made me give him $20 to get my phone back. Anyways, this lady checks her Instagram account on her friend’s phone and lo and behold these young skaters made her a skate edit that said we found your phone! Call it! So she did, and she met up with them at the skate park and got her phone back.
In one way it’s sad that this is such a monumental event. These kids found something that wasn’t theirs and they returned it. I wonder why this story has made the news so heavily? Is it because the kids were skaters and skaters are falsely perceived as no good thieves and vandals? Or is it because they were teenagers and usually teenagers are easily persuaded to do the wrong thing? Or is it a broader scope that most people are in it for themselves and if they find a phone they think my gain your loss? I don’t know, but what I can say is a new shiny phone that isn’t yours will never feel as good as giving it back to a grateful human being.
