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The RCMP say a Good Samaritan whose cellphone was stolen while she was helping an accident victim in Nanaimo, B.C., has had the device replaced by a stranger.
Const. Gary O’Brien says the local detachment was swamped with offers to help Anne Marie Behan after police issued a news release on her predicament.
She had rushed from her home in Nanaimo last Saturday night to help a person who had been injured in a car crash.
While she was providing first aid she placed her phone on the roof of a car and police say it was taken.
Behan said the phone was a “lifeline” that connected her to her daughter and her job, and as a single mom she didn’t have the money to replace it.
O’Brien says police received numerous calls from strangers who wanted to replace the phone, including from a man who was flying to Houston and read about what happened.
“They all wanted to rectify a wrong,” he said in a news release on Friday.
“This is a nice ending to a sad story. It also goes to show there are more good people than negative out there.”
O’Brien said the first person Behan contacted with her new phone was her daughter.
The Canadian Press
