Erev-Shabbos chaos in Crown Heights
August 4, 2008 Filed under Shmira News
Friday, August 1, 2008 approximately 12:00 noon: Crown Heights Shmira received a call that there was a yungerman (young man) being placed under arrest as the result of a dispute over a parking spot. Shmira members arrived on the scene just as the NYPD patrol car was pulling away with the yungerman, leaving his wife weeping on the side of the road.
Shmira transported the woman to the Station House and numerous senior members began making phone calls to different people to find out what this yungerman was being charged with and to inquire how they can insure that this yungerman will not be held at Central Booking over Shabbos. Many phone calls later, the yungerman arrived home right as Shabbos was coming in (the end of the 18 minutes).
Crown Heights Shmira would like to thank the person who because of his dedication to “the people” and to the community, pushed and did everything in his power and more, to make sure that the yungerman was home before Shabbos.
Advisory
Sometimes you may be one hundred percent correct but, you can still be doing the right thing by walking away. It is not worth it to spend time in Jail and thousands of dollars on Lawyers, just to prove a point. If you are involved in a dispute over a parking spot (or anything else) and you realize that the tension levels are escalating, you might be making the right choice by walking away.
Crown Height Shmira urges all member of the community to please make a Kiddush Hashem and walk away even when you are absolutely certain that you are correct. You might be saving yourself and many others a lot of heart ache.
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Shmira is the best!
Thank you for keeping us informed and educated
you guys know since you deal with this stuff all the time
THANX for sharing!
everyone got to be careful
thank you shmira for being there for US
well if it was black thug i can assure you the cop wouldent lock him up since its jew its like hitting the jack pot thank you shmira for helping out this guy a doing the greatest mitzvah of pidyan shevuen hashem should bless you all kol hakovod thank you shmira for your continues help to our community
Wow you guys really are great helping this guy out when you guys have a family to help Erev-Shabbos by doing the things that have to be done in a house Erev-Shabbos like cooking etc. guys keep up the great and do the best what you guys do.
Larry
28 this is for you . U GUYS ROCK THE HOUSE
I like the Advisory at the end of the article.
Very informative
To Dovid:
The cops of the 71 in general espacially the rookies are great pp, and do a great job.
There must have been some mess up here. there are alway a few rotten apples on the tree.
Next time I hear the Shpoler Zeide’s Nigun, I’ll have Shmira in mind.
The Shpoler Zeida was famous for pidyon shevuim, he would give the shirt of his back without hesitation.
Thank You Shimra
Why didn’t CrownHeights.CH Shmais & Chabad.info put this story on???