A TRUE HERO (WITH A SENSE OF HUMOR)-CHARLES RAMSEY

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I KEEP TELLING PEOPLE: THERE ARE VERY GOOD PEOPLE IN THE WORLD (MOST ARE NOT IN POLITICS, THAT'S FOR SURE).

I HATE WHEN PEOPLE DON'T ACKNOWLEDGE THAT ALL OF US ARE INHERENTLY GOOD AT THE CORE AND MOSTLY CIRCUMSTANCES CAN TURN THOSE GOOD SOULS INTO NEGATIVE & PESSIMISTIC INDIVIDUALS.

WE ARE OUR BROTHER'S KEEPER--LET'S ALL LEARN FROM THIS. 

MR. RAMSEY HAS NO IDEA THE IMPACT HE'S MADE IN SO MANY PEOPLE'S LIVES & MINDS BY DOING THIS SELFLESS ACT--GOD BLESS YOU MY MAN!!!!

 WHEN ANDERSON COOPER ASKED IF HE WOULD LIKE A REWARD, CHARLES PULLED HIS PAYCHECK OUT OF HIS POCKET AND SAID, "I GET A PAYCHECK, GIVE THE REWARD TO THE GIRLS RESCUED".

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 He added, "I knew something was wrong when a little, pretty white girl ran into a black man's arms. Something is wrong here. Dead giveaway." (FUNNY GUY--BUT TRUTH--CHILDREN SENSE GOODNESS FASTER THAN ADULTS).

 

 May 8, 2013

(CNN) -- Within hours of becoming a national hero, a viral video star and the top topic on Twitter, Charles Ramsey talked about having trouble getting sleep.

It wasn't because of all the excitement that followed his knocking down a Cleveland neighbor's door, freeing three women and a girl who police say were held hostage for years.

Instead, Ramsey told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Tuesday, it was about knowing he had lived for a year near the captive women on the city's West Side.

"Up until yesterday the only thing that kept me from losing sleep was the lack of money," the restaurant dishwasher said on "Anderson Cooper 360."

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"I could have done this last year, not this hero stuff," said Ramsey. "Just do the right thing."

Ramsey recounted Monday night's drama, when he heard a girl scream "like a car had hit a kid."

He ran from his living room, clutching a half-eaten McDonald's Big Mac, to the house and helped free a woman identified as Amanda Berry.

"Amanda said, 'I've been trapped in here. He won't let me out. It's me and my baby."

Who are the three women freed in Cleveland?

Ramsey and a man named Angel Cordero broke down the door, CNN affiliate WEWS reported in an earlier interview heard around the world.

Ramsey told CNN he had never seen Berry before Monday, and at first, he could not place the name.

"Berry didn't register with me until I was on the phone, like wait a minute, I thought this girl was dead."

"She's like, 'This (expletive) kidnapped me and my daughter,'" he told the 911 operator, according to WEWS.

After police arrived, Berry explained there were other women inside. When police came out with them, Ramsey told the station, "it was astonishing."

Berry was last seen after finishing her shift at a Burger King in Cleveland in 2003 on the eve of her 17th birthday.

The other two women are Georgina "Gina" DeJesus, who disappeared at age 14 in 2004, and Michelle Knight, who vanished in August 2002, at age 21, according to police.

Ramsey told CNN he is no hero and should not receive any reward.

"You've got to put that being a coward and 'I don't want to get in nobody's business,'" he said. "You got to put that away for a minute..."

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