In a feel-good story that proves hard work pays off, a stranger decided to reward a young man who accidently bought his own stolen dirt bike off Facebook Marketplace.
The teen, 13-year-old Noah from Kansas, had spent the entire summer mowing lawns and doing other chores to save up money for the dirt bike, a sacrifice of the entire inter-scholastic period for a promise of much greater joy to come: the kind of behavior that all Western society was built upon.
But the bike was actually stolen property, little did Noah know it, and tied to a 2023 storage-unit burglary in Wichita.
Referencing the criminal case number, Glenn Timoteo, the dirt bike’s true owner, organized a GoFundMe “to help Noah get the dirt bike he truly earned, and to show him that there’s still good in the world.”
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