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Disabled pensioner Alan Barnes attacked by mugger meets kind-hearted stranger who started £225,000 fund for him

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Alan, 67, told Katie Cutler: “Words are not enough to say how I feel. Katie launched an appeal after Alan was mugged outside his house a week ago.  The pensioner suffered a broken collar bone and was too scared to return to his home in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear. So far, more than 17,000 people from all over the world have donated cash, which Alan will use to buy a new home. Wiping away tears, beautician Katie, 21, said: “I am overjoyed for Alan .” Source

Pizza guy stiffed out of tip gets $20,000 from the Internet

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After a change discrepancy left a pizza delivery man without a tip, the Internet raised more than $20,000. A video, which Boston.com reports was originally uploaded to YouTube with the title “Irate pizza driver,” shows an awkward interaction between Jarrid Tansey, a pizza delivery driver for Palace Pizza, and a few employees at F&R Auto Sales, both located in Westport, Mass. The clip shows Tansey returning to the dealership and handing over money that he thought was a tip for an order delivered earlier. “It just doesn’t make sense why you’d hand me a bill that you were just gonna have me drive back here to give you back anyway," Tansey says in the video. Apparently, the car dealership placed an order that totaled just over $42 and paid Tansey with two $20 bills and two $5 bills for a total of $50. Tansey then left, assuming the remaining $7-and-change was a tip. But there was a misunderstanding and the dealership wanted change, so they called Palace Pizza and forced...