Police Give Woman New Bible, Her 'Most Prized' Possession, After Losing It With Stolen Car
A Florida woman received a surprising gift this week, when police arrived at her work to give her a brand new Bible after she lost hers last week when her car was stolen.
Susan Biggs, a 57-year-old nurse working at the Morton Plant Hospital in Clearwater, Florida, received a surprise this week at the start of her 5:30 a.m. shift, when she was called to the hospital lobby. Biggs arrived in the lobby to find six officers waiting for her with a large, brand new Bible, containing the inscription: "From Your Friends at the Clearwater Police Department."
The police had decided to give Biggs a brand new Bible after hers was stolen when she was carjacked last week. Biggs had been sitting in her car, reading her Bible ahead of her 4:30 a.m. shift last week when two teenage men approached her car with guns, and ordered her to exit the vehicle. Biggs did so, and the men sped off in her Chevrolet HHR that contained her purse and her beloved Bible.
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Although the car and her purse were later recovered when the suspects were apprehended in Pinellas Park, the Bible is still missing. Biggs's son, Grant, told FOX 13 that it is still unclear if the two teen suspects kept the Bible or threw it out of the window when they were driving.
Grant said that regardless of what happened to the Bible, he thinks the two teens are going to need it as they proceed with their carjacking charges.
"If you have the Bible you're going to need it where you're going […] she doesn't have her Bible and that's the most prized thing she has in that vehicle. It's not there now."
"I'm praying for them," the nurse told the Tampa Bay Times after the teens were arrested. "They're young boys and they still have a lot ahead of them." The 57-year-old nurse was also given a Bible by the Morton Plant Mease Foundation that is associated with the hospital where she works.
Biggs added to the Clearwater Gazette that all she can hope for is that the suspects read the Bible.
