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Giantone · 06-14-2013, 04:27 PM

Off-Duty Winston-Salem, N.C. Police Officer Charles Ziegler's Good Deed Goes Viral

A Winston-Salem's off-duty police officer's good deed went viral last week.
Officer Charles Ziegler was working security for a local church on Feb. 26 when he spotted a mother pushing her child's stroller in the rain, according to TODAY.com.
He offered the woman a lift, and by that afternoon he was a bona fide Internet celebrity.
A photo of him helping the woman into his patrol car was posted on Twitter by the city's marketing and communications director and from there it took off.
WXII-TV picked up the story and after that, the story was passed around online.
Ziegler -- who was slammed with phone calls, texts and Facebook messages -- said that he still can't believe how far the story spread.
"My phone just blew up," he told TODAY.com. "Last night, I got a text message from someone I go to church with and she said I made the news in England."
He said the act was a regular occurrence as he's often at the church as parents are dropping their kids off at the daycare.
"It's me giving a lady and her child a ride. I don’t think it’s that big of a deal," he said. "Cops across the state and across the nation, they do stuff like this all the time."

06-14-2013, 04:27 PM	#151
Giantone Gamebreaker Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 14,600	Re: What's up with the cops these days? Off-Duty Winston-Salem, N.C. Police Officer Charles Ziegler's Good Deed Goes Viral A Winston-Salem's off-duty police officer's good deed went viral last week. Officer Charles Ziegler was working security for a local church on Feb. 26 when he spotted a mother pushing her child's stroller in the rain, according to TODAY.com. He offered the woman a lift, and by that afternoon he was a bona fide Internet celebrity. A photo of him helping the woman into his patrol car was posted on Twitter by the city's marketing and communications director and from there it took off. WXII-TV picked up the story and after that, the story was passed around online. Ziegler -- who was slammed with phone calls, texts and Facebook messages -- said that he still can't believe how far the story spread. "My phone just blew up," he told TODAY.com. "Last night, I got a text message from someone I go to church with and she said I made the news in England." He said the act was a regular occurrence as he's often at the church as parents are dropping their kids off at the daycare. "It's me giving a lady and her child a ride. I don’t think it’s that big of a deal," he said. "Cops across the state and across the nation, they do stuff like this all the time." __________________ ....DISCLAIMER: All of my posts/threads are my expressed typed opinion and the reader is not to assume these comments are absolute fact, law, or truth unless otherwise stated in said post/thread.