PITTSBURGH (KDKA/CNN Newsource/WKRC) – A deaf man that couldn’t read or speak English was stranded in an unfamiliar city until an understanding police officer stepped in to help him.
Officers responded to a busy Greyhound station in Pittsburgh on Thursday regarding an “unruly” man that was making a scene. Upon arrival, Officer Steven Harris realized there was more going on than the initial report indicated.
“He was just a male who was deaf and didn’t speak English or read English, so it just turned out he needed help to get back on a bus to New York and eventually Montreal,” Officer Harris told reporters. “Officer Keso hooked his phone up to an internet hot spot, we called the translator line, and we were able to finally boil it down to, he didn’t have any cash and needed a way out and his bags were missing. They were in New York, so we got him to New York.”…