Bakersfield man’s trash turns out to be Tijuana’s treasure. California

“In 1993, with the help of a local sponsor, Wall printed up a Spanish-language version of his “Today I Will Commit One Random Act of Kindness” slogan — hundreds of them. Last month he found a huge stack of the bumper stickers stashed in some nook of his east Bakersfield home — “Hoy, llevaré a Cabo un Acto de Condad, sin Planearlo y sin Ninguna Razon.” They were ancient. He tossed them.

“Then I got to thinking,” Wall said. His wife fished out the bumper stickers and Wall mailed them to Mother Antonia, a 77-year-old woman (real name: Mary Clarke) recently profiled by two Washington Post reporters, who lives with and ministers to the incarcerated murderers and drug lords of Tijuana’s infamous La Mesa State Penitentiary. Wall included a note: “Maybe you can use these.”"

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