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Student Walked Over A Dozen Miles To New Job, Admirers Give Him Car And Cash

Walter Carr's car broke down. He set out to make a grueling 20-mile walk to his first assignment. It turned into an odyssey of kind gestures and generosity.

Walter Carr didn't panic, he made a plan.

The night before his first day of work with a moving company his car wouldn't start. At one point, the college student told Fox & Friends, he'd secured a ride to go from his apartment in Homewood to Pelham, Ala., but that fell through. So he made some calls and sent out more texts asking for help. His buddies were busy or unavailable.

He came up with a

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