Good Samaritan deed makes woman a target.

Title: Good Samaritan deed makes woman a target
Author: Portsia Smith
Date: Friday 10/9/09

Summary:
This article is about a 66-year-old woman, Vanita Lemmon, that was getting gas when she overheard this man who sounded like he was out of money. She went over to offer him half of her money, but he said he needed all of it and gave her his GPS in exchange for the money. He also offered to do some landscaping for her, so he asked for her number and everything and called her one day. When she came home, she saw her house was broken into and that her jewelry was gone and later found out that the GPS was stolen from another lady. The man was caught, but now Mrs. Lemmon has bars on her doors because this man ruined the safety and sanctuary of her home. She went through all of this for doing a good deed.

Critique:
The man was obviously on the phone with someone who was bad people, or on the phone to pretend, but still. What if this man was into some bad stuff? The newpaper just put her name out there and his friends can find her. I don't think in cases like this that the name should be let out. The newspaper should make a conscious decision to leave it out. Also, I thought there was a good rhetorical ending of making the audience feel scared and cautious about helping anyone these days because they ended it with a scared quote from this woman about how she was duped. This quote can relate to everyone's who has been duped, because even as a teenager in Stafford, I've given money to someone that I thought needed help that ended up being a natural/regular at that kind of thing. Just shows you that you can't trust anyone any more.