They donated the car right then and there. “It was as simple as reaching out to Stepps and saying what we learned about this lady and her need, and Stepp didn’t even think twice,” Barlow said. They decided to help the restaurant employee in her time of need, contacting local business Stepps Towing, who was happy to help. “Because not every solution to a problem is, per se, something that an arrest can solve or a report can solve,” he added. He explained how the sheriff’s office often use their relationships to “think outside of the box” to find unique solutions to issues community members face. And he mentioned it to another one of our deputies, and that sort of put the plan in motion to get this blessing for her,” Barlow said. “She mentioned that to one of the deputies that I work with putting these events together. The officers learned she had been taking Uber to work in the morning after her shift, which ended at different times each day, in order to save money, she would walk home.
(Courtesy of Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office) “And then the situation got a little worse, because her landlord didn’t want a broken vehicle in her apartment complex parking lot.”
“She had it towed back to her apartment where she lived,” HCSO community outreach’s Major Barlow told The Epoch Times. The restaurant employee ended up in a predicament when she was forced to sell her car after the rear axle broke and she didn’t have the money to fix it. The officers are known to put on community events, which calls for catering, and that’s how they met the woman who works at Carrabba’s Italian Grill. Going beyond the call of duty is what led officers of the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office to help one woman in a tough situation over the summer-by donating a car to her. Woman Has to Sell Broken Down Car for Scrap, Ubers and Walks to Work-Until Sheriff Gives Her New Car I got around the paywall by pressing the "escape" key as the page loaded. The original article is here, behind a paywall:
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