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eridani

(51,907 posts)
Fri Jun 19, 2015, 03:22 AM Jun 2015

If you were walking through a busy train station and saw a bulletin board full of dollar bills--

--what would you do?

Given the Charleston terrorism, there's still a little hope for our species.:

http://www.upworthy.com/something-great-happened-when-a-group-put-40-on-a-bulletin-board-in-a-crowded-la-train-station

A group in L.A. recently set out to answer that question. They tacked $40 onto a bulletin board in Los Angeles' Union Station with a simple message



"The idea came out of a conversation with a few friends on generosity and how people, in general, want to help others," project co-creator Tyler Bridges told Upworthy.

The board worked like a charm.
The people who needed money took money.
The people who had money to give gave it.
And the last dollar stayed up on the board for 20 minutes.

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