Before starting today's story, let's show you a picture.
It is estimated that many friends see such a picture, the first feeling should be: not like a good person!
Yes, this man was not really a good man before, but since he washed his hands, the painting style has changed, ah, probably not even his own mother!
The man in the photo is Tim Ward, known as "Sharky," because he used to be a famous gangster in Australia's gold coast and specialised in loan usury, earning interest of up to 200%!
He was said to have been born in New Zealand and later emigrated to Australia, where he grew up in poverty and became a self-made millionaire on loan usury, leading a lavish, lavish life.
He played luxury cars, roamed nightclubs, went in and out of high-end places, and got tattoos full of tattoos, always acting like a gangster.
Later, Australian police targeted him. In 2002, he was fined A $ two hundred and seventy thousand for illegal loan usury. In the years that followed, police intensified their investigation and surveillance of him.
To avoid the spotlight, he moved to Pattaya, Thailand, in 2009. I don't know if he was infected by the strong Buddhist atmosphere in Thailand. Since moving there, his whole painting style has changed, from Australia's most ferocious gangster to a loving homeless animal rescuer!
Every night, he spent four hours walking a dozen kilometers, looking for stray cats and dogs on the streets of Pattaya, and feeding them one by one.
Sometimes, even when drunk tourists go mad with alcohol to hurt the stray animals, he comes forward to protect the weak animals.
Thailand is said to have about 70, 000 animals living on the streets every year, and he hopes to change that through his own efforts.
In addition to stray animals, his assistance also includes street children.
He rented a house for the homeless children to spend the night. He will also help them buy delicious food, buy a variety of toys.
"these stray animals and children need to be taken care of," he said. "if I don't do it, nobody cares about them."
Referring to the reasons that prompted him to do so, he said:
"it probably had something to do with my childhood experience. When I was a child, my family was very poor, so I knew what kind of life they lived every day. "
"I don't like driving in Lamborghini every day," he said, recalling his old spendthrift life, "I don't like to go to all kinds of high-end places in Lamborghini every day. There's no point in that extravagant lifestyle! Now, I take a dog or two a day, go for a walk on the beach, and enjoy the sun, which makes me feel very comfortable. "
"I used to have nothing, and then I started from scratch, I got everything I wanted with my own efforts, I went through it all, and now, to me, helping these stray animals is the greatest pleasure of my life."
A mafia boss who once ate like a shark and did not spit his bones, washing his hands and washing his hands to become the guardian god of stray animals, such a huge contrast and a sudden picture style are really so cute that they really respond to that sentence. "how bad a person is on the surface, how deep his heart is"!
