Heart at work - Taiwan police take pity on thief and donate new bicycle

Police in Taiwan who had arrested a man for stealing a bicycle discovered he was so poor that they decided to buy him one.

The man, surnamed Huang, stole the bicycle from a high school near his home in Chiayi city in central Taiwan to save his daughter from her daily 5km walk to the closest bus stop on the way to her vocational school, the China Times reported on Thursday.

Once the officers heard about the desperate conditions the family was living in - with no access to water or electricity - they had a collection and bought a new bicycle for the girl. SOURCE