Community Buys Christmas Gifts for Robbed Soldier
In today's edition of the "Good Stuff," a grinch steals Christmas from a soldier but an entire town comes together to give it back. CNN's Chris Cuomo reports.
Corporal Chris Petrossian from Lodi, California, just came home from a seventeen month tour of duty.
He's been ordering christmas gifts for his family for months in anticipation of the holiday, so imagine how he felt when he got home and found out that thieves broke in and stole all of it.
“They just ripped open all the packages and they helped themselves to whatever they want, which is everything, ” he says.
What happened next is amazing. The responding officer – a Gulf war vet himself, told his fellow officers and they started raising money to bring Christmas gifts to the man's family.
Word spread through the town and they raised enough money to restore almost all the gifts.
If you have #GoodStuff news, let us know! Leave a comment, post on Facebook, or tweet to @ChrisCuomo & @NewDay using #NewDay and submit your story on iReport.
New Day Hosts
Weekend Hosts
There's some "LOW DOWN SCUM" in this world.I hope they will if they haven't got caught ,get caught an made to pay back everything they took,plus go to "PRISON" for a long time."NO GOOD TRASH".
GOD BLESS All Those that Pitched in to RESTORE Christmas to This Family!!
I Hope they FIND Whom ever is Responsible! NOT EVEN GOD WILL FORGIVE this Act of SELFISHNESS!!
Nice to know there is still some decent officers who in this case deserves the title of "Peace Officer" and not "Code Enforcement". Thank you young man for your courage to help out a fellow brother. God will surely Bless you and I would like to thank both the officer and solder for their service to our country.
Thank you guys for this awesome news. It gets a little annoying when you turn on the tv and all you hear are bad news!!
I am glad they helped him but i am still upset noone helped my son when he was robbed not once but 3 times and one time he was on his ship and they robbed him his own shipmates did it and twice they broke down the door to his apartment in base housing on the marine base and took everything and i mean everything he had and hes still paying on the stuff they stole from him it's a shame people steal from our troops my son is in the navy and this was done to him
Warms the heart to know there are good people on the world.
Proof that there are still so many good people in our country. If those others would just stop fighting against us. There's room enough for all of us. GOD BLESS THOSE THAT HELPED HERE. And thank you, Corporal Petrossian, for volunteering to serve in our military.
Thank God for Earth Angels! ❤
this is the way that GOD wants us to be
this is simply love