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On his first day of work at a location nearly 20 miles from his home, a young man from Alabama said that he had an option left to get there: Walk.
After the breakdown of Walter Carr's car, he found himself faced with the dilemma of going to his job site the next morning – it would be his first day with the Bellhops moving company. He decided to leave his house in Homewood at midnight, after sleeping for four hours, and started hiking to the family home that he was going to help move.
Along the way, Carr sat down because his legs ached and he was arrested by police officer Mark Knighten of the Pelham Police Department, the department told ABC News. He told Knight that he had eight or ten miles left to go.
Constables Carl Perkinson and Klint Rhodes stopped shortly afterwards, Pelham police added, and the three officers took the young man to breakfast.
He told the officers that he was determined to make the long journey to get to his first day of work.
Pelham Police "I did not want to fight," Carr said.
On Saturday morning at 6:30 am, another officer, Scott Duffey, took Carr to Jenny Lamey's place, where she was scheduled to meet her new colleagues and start helping her family move.
Duffey spoke to Lamey about Carr's trek and asked him if he could stay home until the rest of the Bellhops team arrived.
"My heart stopped," Lamey told ABC News.
She said that she offered Walter food and a couch to lie down until 8:00 am, but he insisted that they get to work .
Lamey said that she thought about her drive all night and how he was now going to lift heavy boxes in the unbearable heat and it blew him up.
"I burst into tears a few times," she said.
Lamey says that she learned more things that impressed her about Carr. He told his kids that he was supposed to graduate his associate later this year, and then ship to the training camp with the Marines.
When he was 5 years old, he told him, he and his mother lost their home in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.
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When the crew arrived and went to Walter, Lamey said that she was touched that they thanked her for coming. She said that they had been shocked to learn Carr 's trek all night long.
Lamey found a way to get in touch with Bellhops CEO Luke Marklin. She shared the story on Facebook and set up a GoFundMe to raise money for Walter to repair his car.
But Marklin had something else in mind.
"Walter is amazing, and what he's doing is amazing," Marklin told ABC News. "That's all our company represents."
Pelham Police Department Marklin left his home in Chattanooga, Tenn. To travel to Homewood, Alabama to meet with Carr for lunch.
While Carr was walking 30 minutes to meet Marklin, he did not know that the Lamey family, Pelham police and his colleagues were all in a nearby hotel, waiting to catch him.
When he arrived, the whole group was there and Marklin gave him the keys to the SUV he was driving in Alabama, a Ford Escape.
Carol Robinson / The Birmingham News by AP "Walter really raised the bar," said Marklin.
Lamey said his family would be inspired by him whenever they have hard times.
"He's like the poster boy for no excuse," she said. "He just has this deep faith, he was not alone."
Carr said that he was so happy that he had touched people with his story and that he had the blessing to bless others.
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