A German World Cup fan who feared America was dangerous broke down in tears – after a stranger’s roadside kindness changed his mind completely.
Sebastian Kraus admits he boarded his flight to the U.S. this summer half-expecting the worst, after a steady diet of headlines about crime and chaos back home. Then his group got stranded on the road in New England, and a stranger named Bob pulled over.
Bob and his family didn’t ask questions and they loaded Kraus and his friends into their car, drove them straight to their hotel, and refused anything in return.
Kraus couldn’t shake it and in an interview with NBC10 Boston, he broke down describing the moment, admitting he’s watched the clip of himself telling the story roughly 40 times since.
“I had tears in my eyes,” Kraus said. “I fell in love with America.”
He left the tournament more shaken by that goodbye than by Germany’s early exit from the competition.
“Americans are not rude,” Kraus said. “If we are together, we can achieve great things.”
