HOUSTON – The vast window in a behind of Art of Coffee in Kemah was shattered.
Two income registers inside were missing.
Owner Jimmy Sims was, understandably, livid. Especially when he realized, after examination store notice video, that he knew a burglar well.
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“We’re going to travel down a travel and hit on a doorway and drag him out,” Sims pronounced he suspicion to himself during a time. “And learn him a genuine lesson.”
But Sims also knew a man, in his 20s, had led a tough life and struggled with addiction. Sims motionless a burglar deserved a second chance, and reached out in a open Facebook post.
“To a immature male who pennyless into a Art of Coffee this morning. (Yes we know who we are), a owners and staff would like to, instead of putting we in jail, put we to work,” a post began. “You apparently need money, so instead of hidden from tough operative people, let’s make we one of us that work for things we have.”
The surprising pursuit offer enclosed conditions like profitable behind a cost of a damaged potion regulating tip money; confluence to a dress code; pointless drug tests; and volunteering with a owners during a preserve “so we can see that people have it distant worse than us though do not take to get by.”
The post pronounced a stolen income would be forgiven since “you indispensable it, or we wouldn’t go to a border we did to get it. No questions asked.”
The post finished with “there’s good in we somewhere! Lets find it again. Thanks .. Jimmy, Bill and your new staff and organisation members.”
Within hours, a post perceived some-more than a thousand likes, as good as hundreds of shares and comments. Store manager Jimmy Nieto primarily disagreed with a offer.
“[They’re] nicer than me, I’ll tell we that,” Nieto said. “Let’s contend we find this dude before they do … we’re going to be stating a opposite story.”
But Nieto pronounced he was in a bad place when he started during Art of Coffee. He appreciates second chances, and pronounced he would get along excellent with a new employee, if a offer is accepted.
“If he does (accept a offer), we design a discerning apology,” Sims said. “But afterwards we design him to do his job, and do it well. That’s all we design from anybody.”
A Kemah military officer told KPRC that if Sims does not wish to press charges, a box becomes a polite matter.
“There’s a lot of good will around here,” a officer said. He combined that a same burglar is suspected of hidden from another store owned by Sims final year.
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