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"description": "Hayes, who is retired, said it was nothing. “We’ll just call it my good deed for the day.”",
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"textContent": "> Richard Hayes got an unexpected call from Whakātane Hospital on Friday asking him to pick up his father-in-law. There was just one problem – the patient wasn’t his father-in-law.\n>\n> The hospital called the wrong Richard Hayes. Rather than leave 86-year-old Norman Camburn stranded, Hayes offered to drive the stranger home himself.\n>\n> The hospital explained they couldn’t get hold of Camburn’s wife so they had tried his son-in-law, who had the same name.\n>\n> “I said, well, he lives in Whakatane,” Hayes told _Stuff_. “It’s hardly a bustling metropolis. I can come and pick him up.”\n>\n> Hayes met Camburn outside the hospital.\n>\n> “He was looking at me going ‘Oh, I think I recognise you’, and I said ‘Well no you don’t because I’ve never seen you before in my life’.”\n>\n> Hayes dropped him off at his place, where he got a confused look from Camburn’s wife in the driveway.\n>\n> Camburn insisted on a payment or a gift but Hayes refused. It was just a 15-minute trip, he said: “Everywhere’s 15 minutes in Whakatane. It actually took me longer to get him in the car than to drive there.”\n>\n> Stuff\n\nRead More",
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