There have been so many scams attempted through Go Fund Me and fake charities that I'm a little jaded about them.
Understood, but this one doesn't feel like a scam to me - real disabled person, real injuries, real hospitalization, some or a lot of uncovered costs, real needs like housing for at least the rest of the Buffalo winter, etc.
As for my comment about racism, read what I said:
"Great that he's alive due to the care of a stranger/savior. Even more so if he was a racist before his near death experience,"
I didn't call him a racist, or even imply that he might be. I clearly said that I love it when a racist finds that he's alive due to the compassion of the good Samaritans in the group he has always looked down on. Don't you?
Sure, though I can't think of any irl examples. It just seemed like an odd thing to bring up absent any evidence other than their races. I don't think that frail racists do very well on the streets.
Where do you get he was "on the streets"
He had a job and didn't understand the severity of the storm.
My bad, I made an unfounded leap from the article above:
... In a Facebook post and video on December 25, Sha'Kyra Aughtry said she found a man with special needs screaming for help on the street on the morning of December 24....
Dearing wrote on the page that White, who is mentally disabled, "did not understand the true severity of the storm." ...
So yesterday the "check engine light" came on in the Jeep. Oh shit. So I went over to my neighborhood O'Reilly's auto store to get them to read the OBD code. I thought that's a pretty "good news" service to start with. But - apparently they only had one guy who knew how to do that and he wasn't going to be back in for a half-hour or so. No problem, I'll just hang until he gets here. Then, this guy who had been in line after me comes up and asks would I like him to read it for me. Sure, says I. Anybody who carries around a reader in his 4Runner probably knows how to use it. The guy climbs around under the dash, does the reading and proclaimed it to be a P0455 evaporative system error - probably gas cap. I checked the gas cap, found it not snug, tightened it - problem fixed. I thought it was a kind and totally unexpected gesture by the guy and it improved my generally dim view of the state of humanity.
So yesterday the "check engine light" came on in the Jeep. Oh shit. So I went over to my neighborhood O'Reilly's auto store to get them to read the OBD code. I thought that's a pretty "good news" service to start with. But - apparently they only had one guy who knew how to do that and he wasn't going to be back in for a half-hour or so. No problem, I'll just hang until he gets here. Then, this guy who had been in line after me comes up and asks would I like him to read it for me. Sure, says I. Anybody who carries around a reader in his 4Runner probably knows how to use it. The guy climbs around under the dash, does the reading and proclaimed it to be a P0455 evaporative system error - probably gas cap. I checked the gas cap, found it not snug, tightened it - problem fixed. I thought it was a kind and totally unexpected gesture by the guy and it improved my generally dim view of the state of humanity.
It was an aberration.
Eamus Catuli~AC 000000000101010202020303010304 020405....Ahhhh, forget it, it's gonna be a while.
So yesterday the "check engine light" came on in the Jeep. Oh shit. So I went over to my neighborhood O'Reilly's auto store to get them to read the OBD code. I thought that's a pretty "good news" service to start with. But - apparently they only had one guy who knew how to do that and he wasn't going to be back in for a half-hour or so. No problem, I'll just hang until he gets here. Then, this guy who had been in line after me comes up and asks would I like him to read it for me. Sure, says I. Anybody who carries around a reader in his 4Runner probably knows how to use it. The guy climbs around under the dash, does the reading and proclaimed it to be a P0455 evaporative system error - probably gas cap. I checked the gas cap, found it not snug, tightened it - problem fixed. I thought it was a kind and totally unexpected gesture by the guy and it improved my generally dim view of the state of humanity.
I've got one of those readers. I think I paid about forty bucks for it. But I don't carry it around in the car with me. Hell, right now I have two codes, both indicating problems with the "secondary air injection" pump, valve, or relay. I've replaced the relays, but the light is still on. My mechanic tells me not to worry about it much; that this system is only active when the engine is first started. The car seems to run ok but I think it takes more gas. It's about $600 to fix it. I fixed it once before about fifteen years ago at Harry's in Asheville.
Probably. We have found the RV community overall to be quite helpful, but just some guy in the parts store parking lot? For some really not critical/important issue? Beyond modern day expectations, and has kept a smile on my face all day.
Surgeons in Israel performed a miracle surgery and managed to reattach a boy’s head after he was hit by a car while riding his bike, a Jerusalem hospital announced this week.
Suleiman Hassan, a 12-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank, suffered what is known as an internal decapitation, with his skull detached from the top vertebrae of his spine — officially known as a bilateral atlanto occipital joint dislocation, according to The Times of Israel....
Dr. Ohad Einav, the orthopedic specialist who led the operation, said the procedure took several hours and required the doctors to use "new plates and fixations in the damaged area."
Drs. Ohad Einav and Ziv Asa with 12-year-old Suleiman Hassan, center, at Hadassah Medical Center following Hassan's recovery.
... The operation occurred in June, but doctors waited a month to announce the results. The hospital recently discharged Hassan with a cervical splint and will continue to monitor his recovery.
"The fact that such a child has no neurological deficits or sensory or motor dysfunction and that he is functioning normally and walking without an aid after such a long process is no small thing," Einav said....
Dr. Marc Siegel, Clinical Professor of Medicine and a practicing internist at NYU Langone Medical Center and Fox News contributor, told Fox News Digital that the "amazing" surgery was only possible if major blood vessels remained intact.
"The key is preserving blood flow to the brain," Siegel said. "It sounds like — from the story — that the major blood vessels were likely not severed and that this involved an orthopedic rebuilding — probably using rods and reattaching ligaments and possibly bone grafts and implants." ...
A clown with a flamethrower still has a flamethrower.
-- Charlie Sykes on MSNBC
1312. ETTD.
A tiny neighborhood store in downtown Los Angeles sold the winning ticket for the Powerball jackpot worth an estimated $1.08 billion, the sixth largest in U.S. history and the third largest in the history of the game....
The winning ticket was sold at Las Palmitas Mini Market, which will receive a $1 million bonus from the lottery. The owner of the store is Maria Leticia Menjivar, lottery spokesperson Carolyn Becker said.
Lottery officials presented a giant symbolic check to the owner and her family, including her husband Navor Herrera, the manager, and hung signs saying “billionaire made here.”
Asked about the store's million-dollar windfall, Herrera set his sights on the future.
“I have to make more bigger store, more items, good service for the people. That’s my thing now,” he said.
“The store is small” but the luck there is “big,” Herrera joked.
Located in the city's Fashion District, the narrow minimarket is a few blocks from Skid Row's scenes of homelessness and distress where thousands of people live in makeshift shanties that line entire blocks of the neighborhood.
The 107-block district is both a center of the West Coast apparel industry as well as a low-income area where small stores offer clothing, accessories and fabrics that spill onto sidewalks. Bargain-seekers flock to the district, but many storefronts are shuttered....
x $1M.
A clown with a flamethrower still has a flamethrower.
-- Charlie Sykes on MSNBC
1312. ETTD.
Family of groom perform a dramatic Haka at New Zealand Maori wedding, moving the bride to tears before she eventually joined in the performance.
To be accurate it was clearly more than just the "Family of groom", and the groom and maid of honor (?) also joined in. I love the still chosen for the teaser. One of the cooler Hakas I've seen.
A clown with a flamethrower still has a flamethrower.
-- Charlie Sykes on MSNBC
1312. ETTD.
Listing of somebody considers the "10 Happiest States" in the US. I can't imagine what would make people so happy about living in some of these places, but the pic at the top of the article is at Oceanside. We live about a little over a mile toward the left side of the shot.
Listing of somebody considers the "10 Happiest States" in the US. I can't imagine what would make people so happy about living in some of these places, but the pic at the top of the article is at Oceanside. We live about a little over a mile toward the left side of the shot.
x $1M.
I ain't mad about that.
Never a dog, knock on wood. Sorry for you.