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Jamaican hurdler Hansel Parchment may not have won a gold medal in Tokyo, if a stranger had not intervened. Parchment took the wrong bus on the day of his event. He was listening to music, when he looked up and realized the bus was going the wrong way and he had no idea where he was. In a social media…

A Chinese physics professor provided traffic police with a two-page report filled with complicated equations and diagrams to prove he could not have caused a traffic accident. Police admitted they were baffled by the physics, and turned to a simpler technology. They said the professor was driving a black…

Neil Junglas saw a car pull up into his parking spot outside his home in England. A couple got out of the car and taking suitcases they jumped into a taxi and left. He assumed they were just trying to avoid paying for parking at the nearby airport but the move left Neil without parking at home. To get…

Imagine going to Chicago on a business trip. You have a bunch of meetings and have plans to fly out right after your last meeting to meet your family in some great vacation spot. Your meetings run late and you know it is going to be a challenge to get to the airport and get checked in so you can make…

For those who have faith in technology, a company in Singapore has made rides in a self-driving taxi available to the public. The trial area is limited to a 2.5 mile square in a business and residential district called “one north.” To get a ride, passengers have to use a special app and request the ‘robo-car’…

German taxi driver Thomas Gunter dropped off his elderly couple fare at their Wurzburg, Germany home. Later Gunter discovered they had left an envelope containing the equivalent of $335,000 in euro notes. Rather than keeping the money the cab driver returned to the home and returned the package to the…

A taxi driver and self-proclaimed atheist who had once planned to sue to have a nativity scene removed from the courthouse lawn says his perspective has changed because of the love he and his wife were shown. Patrick Greene said he thought the placement of a nativity scene in front of the local courthouse…

A woman from California sacrificed her job in order to see her son play in the 2012 Little League World Series. Billie Ann Tomei lost her job because she wanted to take vacation time to cheer her son during the championship game. When she asked for the time off, her boss refused and said if she went,…

At his memorial service, speakers remembered a Philadelphia cabdriver as a man who had a unique ministry to the people of the city. Milton Stackhouse, better known to his friends as “Stack” died of a heart attack at the wheel of his cab on his 64 birthday. Family and friends remembered Stack as a family…

Which reminds me of the story I heard of this minister dies and is waiting in line at the Pearly Gates.Ahead of him is a guy dressed in sunglasses, a loud shirt, leather jacket, and jeans. Saint Peter says to this guy, "Who are you, so that I may know whether to admit you to the Kingdom of Heaven?" The…

Can you think of the most desperate prayer you’ve ever prayed? I’m not sure when mine was, but I sure know when it should have been. It happened in Vera Cruz, Mx. Tony, Doug and I were there visiting churches and decided to take a taxi from the bus station to the hotel. I think this guy must have seen…

It was almost 1:00 in the morning when the phone rang. Dr. Leo Winters, the highly acclaimed Chicago surgeon, was abruptly awakened. There had been an accident and his skill hands were needed for immediate surgery. The quickest route happened to be through a rather tough area, but with time being a critical…

When taxi driver AI Gutierrez found six Final Four tickets and S10,000 in cash in the back seat of his cab, he knew what he had to do. He made sure that the tickets and money he found Saturday afternoon got back to the owner. "The thought never even crossed my mind to take any of it," Gutierrez said.…

PERCEPTION Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, reportedly told of a time when he climbed into a taxicab in Paris. Before he could utter a word, the driver turned to him and asked, "Where can I take you, Mr. Doyle?" Doyle was flabbergasted. He asked the driver if…

Morris walks out into the street and manages to get a taxi just going by. He gets into the taxi, and the cabbie says, “Perfect timing. You’re just like Dave.” “Who?” “Dave Aronson. There’s a guy who did everything right. Like my coming along when you needed a cab. It would have happened like that to…

PREACHING A decision by the 3rd U.S. Circuit court of Appeals has dealt a setback to a Jewish congregation trying to open a synagogue in a Philadelphia suburb, and at the same time, sent an interesting message to believers. The court ruled that towns trying to control noise and traffic may legally prevent…

Good Samaritan Counts Cost Taxi driver, Peter Anderson, came upon a car accident and saw three bruised and bleeding people. He offered his taxi cab for them to sit in as shelter until help arrived. Anderson explained what happened next: “They had a few cuts and bruises and I let them shelter in my cab.…

In 1997 Hilary and I were backpacking through the Sinai peninsula in Egypt, for just a couple of days holiday from Israel. We had just enough money to get us to mount Sinai and back on a bus and taxi. The journey was dreadful. We waited for hours in the blazing heat for a taxi to take us to Dahab, from…

"You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3." (Paul F. Crickmore, test pilot) "The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire." "Blue water Navy truism: There are more planes in the ocean than submarines in the sky." (from an old carrier sailor) "When one engine fails on a twin-engine…

EVANGELISM "Bruce" walks through the church door out into the warm Columbian evening and begins panning the horizon to see if he can see the missing person from his party. Bruce doesn't get shook easily. Back home, he's a tough negotiator, a leader in his church and community. But the guerillas in the…

to Illustrate... EARS---- TO HEAR SERVING OTHERS THINGS-UNSEEN | A | American Indian was in downtown . New York, walking with his friend, who lived in New York City. Suddenly he said, "I hear a cricket." "Oh, you're crazy," his friend replied. "No, I hear a cricket. I do! I'm sure of it." "It's the noon…

the pastor's story file a resource file for pastors/teachers/speakers THEME: FAMILY LIFE & KIDS Number 5 — March / 1985 WINNERS — FAMILY LIFE Our first ten stories are the ten top winners in our recent Parables, Etc. contest on the theme of "Family Life In General and Raising Kids in Particular." Each…