This woman gets it...

I have never met Pam Hearne, but I like her a lot already. Her reaction to parts of a body falling in her yard and damaging her house was not to call her lawyer to see whom she could sue. Instead:

Hearne, a special education teacher, said that when she first saw the leg in the grass, "it didn't look real." "But I am very glad that I live where I do," she said, "so I don't have to run for my life like this man probably was doing."

Amen. Pam, you are a great American.

UPDATE

Another quote:

Pam Hearne: "The thought that keeps on running through my head 'but by the grace of God go I' - this someone from another country who wanted to find his or her freedom and he or she didn't make it."

and another:

"The saying that keeps going over and over again in my head is, but by the grace of God go I," she said, adding that the man who sought a free ride was likely desperate. "Some poor soul decided to look for his freedom and it didn't work out for him," she said, standing in front of her home as investigators surveyed the area.

Interesting accuracy in reporting, btw...

Like this:

''The saying that keeps going over and over again in my head is, [There] but by the grace of God go I,'' she said, adding that the man who sought a free ride was likely desperate. ''Some poor soul decided to look for his freedom, and it didn't work out for him,'' she said, standing in front of her home as investigators surveyed the area.

and this:

"I guess it was some poor soul who dreamed to look for his freedom," Hearne said. "I'm hoping he wasn't in much pain."