MARANATHA!

From nypost.com

A feel-good story. I needed this badly.

Justice wasn’t served; it was hand-delivered.

Two Arizona residents were delightfully shocked when a trio of police officers arrived at their door with their groceries in hand after cops arrested their delivery driver, who was en route to drop off their supermarket order.

Waden Khan and his roommate were waiting for their DoorDash order to arrive on May 30 when they noticed their driver had not moved from the same spot for over an hour after getting a notification their order had been picked up, according to AZ Family.

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However, just when the pair figured they wouldn’t receive their food, they heard a knock at the door.

“I look out of the window. Two cop cars pull up,” Khan told the outlet.

“Three cops come dashing out, and I was like ‘Oh my God! What’s happening?’”

Officers with the Phoenix Police Department took it upon themselves to complete the order after busting their DoorDash driver on an outstanding warrant, the outlet reported.

The driver told Officer Eric Dillard he could return the order to the grocery store, and they would find another driver to complete the delivery.

But, Dillard said he knew he would finish the order after arresting the driver.

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“He said you can either take it back to Fry’s and Fry’s will get another driver for the citizen. So I took it upon myself and was like, ‘Well why not keep both parties happy. Keep the citizens happy. Keep the driver happy’,” Dillard told the outlet.

The officers were seen on body cam footage and in a now-viral TikTok, handing off the bags of groceries to the roommates.

“It was just very joyful moment. To see the good side. I really wanted to hug the cops, honestly, for doing that,” said Khan.

Dillard said he didn’t mind going the extra mile to finish out the order, seeing it is his job to keep his community safe and happy.

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“They don’t expect the police to deliver groceries, but you know, I’ll do what I need to do to keep people happy,” Dillard said.

Since being posted last month, the TikTok has been viewed over 2.2 million times, with most of the comments praising the officers for going the extra mile.

“Love when a pd does sweet things. police get such a bad rap, but they’re not all like that. this is cute & very heartwarming,” one user commented.

HEARTWARMING INDEED!

MARANATHA!

From westernjournal.com

When the battery on a Tesla dies, the interior can be little more than a giant oven for someone trapped inside, as an Arizona woman learned.

Renee Sanchez recently learned how quickly owning an EV can turn into a horrifying experience on a scorching Arizona day as the Scotttsdale woman planned to take her 20-month-old granddaughter into her car seat for a trip to the Phoenix Zoo, according to KPHO-TV.

“And I closed the door, went around the car, get in the front seat, and my car was dead,” she said. “I could not get in. My phone key wouldn’t open it. My card key wouldn’t open it.”

The Tesla did the unthinkable to both the mother and daughter – it locked the littler girl inside with no way to release her.

Sanchez called 911. Scottsdale firefighters responded.

“And when they got here, the first thing they said was, ‘Uggh, it’s a Tesla. We can’t get in these cars,’” she said. “And I said, ‘I don’t care if you have to cut my car in half. Just get her out.’”

Firefighters took an ax to a window, taping it first to minimize flying glass.

As the process played out, the toddler began to panic.

“She was OK for the first few minutes,” Sanchez said. “But as soon as the firemen came and all the commotion started and the windows getting broken into, she started crying because she was scared.”

Eventually, the girl was pulled free.

“After I knew she was safe, then the anger,” Sanchez said. “Then, all the thoughts of, oh my God, this could have been so much worse.”

Although Tesla is supposed to give owners a warning when the battery is ready to die, Sanchez said, and the Tesla service department backed her up, that she received none.

“When that battery goes, you’re dead in the water,” she said.

She said she is reconsidering her faith in Tesla.

“I give Tesla props. When it works, it’s great. But when it doesn’t, it can be deadly,” Sanchez said.

Tesla does have a method to get out of a car if its battery dies, but that’s not much help when a toddler is the only one inside the vehicle, according to CarScoops. There is also a method of jump-starting the vehicle, but it requires knowing how to do that.

“They need to educate the first responders because they had no idea,” Sanchez said. “They were as much in the dark as I was.”

EV expert Mike Klimkosky said first responders must educate themselves, according to Fortune.

“It’s the responsibility of the fire department to educate themselves,” Klimkosky said.

But Michael Brooks, the executive director for the Center for Auto Safety, said Tesla is to blame.

“It’s not the firefighters’ fault that Tesla chose electronic door latches that don’t have proper emergency safeguards,” he said.

“When there’s not a federal standard that specifies how these vehicles are to be made, Tesla very rarely chooses routes that are safe,” Brooks said. “They’re usually choosing something glitzy: safety comes last.” source

Thank You Lord that the firefighters were able to break into the car and saved the toddler!

WOULD YOU OWN AN ELECTRIC CAR?

WE WOULD NOT!

MARANATHA!!