A California grandfather gave his grandchildren a real lesson that it is never too late to right a wrong.
The 74-year-old man sent a letter to the Los Angeles Police Department with handcuffs he had stolen from a cop when he was a teenager, with a $100 donation.
The man described feeling guilty every time he spotted the handcuffs and was even more embarrassed when his grandchildren asked him about them.
“They were aghast and asked me why I stole the handcuff from a policeman,” he wrote in the letter.
“I, of course, had no good explanation and I told them it was the wrong thing to do and I wasn’t proud of it and then I danced around the subject.”
The grandpa confessed that he stole the handcuffs when an LAPD juvenile officer started fighting a “young ruffian” at a restaurant.
The handcuffs dropped and slid across the floor to the then-teenager grandfather’s feet.
He grabbed them and left silently, keeping them ever since: “I am sincerely sorry,” he concluded.
“This was no ordinary letter,” the LAPD said. “It was a life lesson over 60 years in the making, from a grandfather to his grandkids – that it’s never too late to do the right thing.”
