Maybe there's something to that whole concept of Christmas in July.
Two heartwarming stories out of Florida this past month certainly seemed to signal an unseasonal outbreak of peace and goodwill.
First there was the cell phone store clerk in Pompano Beach who foiled an attempted robbery by telling the robber about Jesus.
20-year-old Nayara Goncalves told the robber, whom police later identified as 37-year-old Israel Camacho, ``You can do whatever you want, but I'm just going to talk to you about Jesus, my God, before you leave.''
Robber: "God bless you for that."
The robber eventually left without taking anything. Police put Camacho in jail for holding up a shoe store later that day.
The Miami Herald report recounts the conversation, including Goncalves and the robber's discussion of a church they'd both attended. The story struck quite a few people as bizarre. In fact, the Weekly World News, famous for breaking stories about bat-human hybrids and Elvis walking the Earth, simply released a ...
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