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Police in Taiwan arrested a man for stealing a bicycle and planned to lock him up for theft charges. However, the officers discovered that the man was so poor that they not only did not prosecute him but instead decided to donate a bike to him.

The man stole the bicycle from a high school near his home to help save his daughter time in walking 10 kilometers from her vocational school to take care of him in the hospital. The man has often been ill and has had to be hospitalized.

Police said that the man originally told his daughter that he had bought the bicycle second-hand. However, later the former owner of the bike recognized it. Both father and daughter were taken in for questioning by the police.

Police officers learned that the man had no access to water or electricity and was living in an empty shipping container beside a graveyard. Police officers decided not to press charges against the old man and jointly bought a new bike for the girl.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/09/11/taiwan.poor.bike.thief/