Police officer buys plane ticket for lost elderly lady

[Jazzy]

A police officer has been heaped with praise after he bought a plane ticket for a disorientated elderly woman recently so she could by reunited with her family.

However, with the classic modesty of any hero, constable Andre Almeida has tried to play down his selfless action, saying his kind gesture was ‘really small’.

Almeida came into contact with the 65-year-old woman after she was reported missing from a Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines vessel boat which docked in Victoria, Canada.

After the police got in contact with her husband he explained to them that she had been displaying dementia-like symptoms before she went missing.

Victoria police eventually found her in a city-center hotel where staff had found her confused and disorientated.

After finding out that she needed to get back to Seattle in order to catch her flight back to New York, Almeida pulled out his credit card and offered to buy the woman a flight so she could reconnect with her family and get home.

‘She needed help. It could be my mom stranded somewhere, and I would hope that someone would help,’ he told CBC News.

‘I called Air Alaska and just booked the flight on my credit card.’

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He can rescue me any time! In all seriousness, just goes to show that not all cops are "bad apples". Nice to read about a cop doing a good deed for once.

 

[MrDawn]

That was very gracious of him to do that. I wish there were more people like that in the world...