When Gerry Suttle received a notice that she was going to be arrested for failing to appear in court, she had no idea what she had done or what she was going to do about it. What the 75-year-old woman also wasn’t expecting, was that a group of young neighborhood boys would come to her rescue.

Suttle says she never received the notice that her lawn needed mowed. She never received the notice telling her to appear before a judge because her lawn was over 18 inches tall, a rule that she says she knew nothing about. She also didn’t know what she was going to do in jail. After all, she was an elderly woman.

The young boys in her neighborhood couldn’t imagine Suttle in jail either, and they were determined to help her. With push mowers and a weedeater, they headed to Suttle’s house to tackle her pasture-like lawn. It was a blazing hot day, but the boys got right to work, without Suttle even asking for their help. She was stunned when she saw what the boys were doing.

“It’s a summer day and we don’t have passes yet to Warren Falls. What else could we do? Just go out and help some people,” said Blaine Reynolds, one of the boys that pitched in to help Suttle.

It wasn’t long before other neighbors realized what the boys had started, and several decided to help the boys with the large task they had undertaken. Many came on riding lawn mowers and some came with additional weed eaters. Within two hours the job was done, and Suttle could now tell the court she was in compliance with the law she never knew existed.

When Suttle came outside and saw the work of those in her community, she was speechless. “I cannot believe this. I’m very seldom without words, but this is one time, you mark it down in history, that I didn’t have something to say,” she said.

Suttle says the actions of the young boys, and of the rest of her neighbors, has restored her faith in humanity. Kind actions like these are something the world could definitely use more of.