Are you telling me he logs more miles than most elite runners everyday?
And he has done this for the past 10 yrs?
Shouldn't his physical appearance be consistent to someone who walks that much?
Are you telling me he logs more miles than most elite runners everyday?
And he has done this for the past 10 yrs?
Shouldn't his physical appearance be consistent to someone who walks that much?
Have you ever been to a city? wrote:
Pringles wrote:You can't bring a bike on the bus.
Uh yes you can...
Not in his neighborhood.
not sure either wrote:
2) It takes him 6 hours to get home but 4.5 to get there.
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8 miles headed to work and about 13 miles home.
Randy Oldman wrote:
Because they won't let him put his bike on the bus?
"He walks about eight miles headed to work and about 13 miles home".
No, because that's what champions do.
I call BS. Guy looks chubby and has a double chin, he would look like Paul Tergat if he was walking 21 miles a day.
This guy was on last night's CBS news. They raised over $223,000.
We should start fundraisers for everyone. World poverty would end.
And look at the way he walks, just shuffling along. He's not even walking at 3mph pace.
And he said "do you know how long it took me to find a job"? But he's been working there since 1988!
I can't believe CNN doesn't try to authenticate this story.
At 21 miles a day, he must blow through a lot of shoes. With the money he spends on shoes, he could have gotten a decent car.
You would think that after 25 years of doing this, he would find someone at work with a car willing to give him a ride at least part of the way.
Shoeless Joe wrote:
At 21 miles a day, he must blow through a lot of shoes. With the money he spends on shoes, he could have gotten a decent car.
Ha, as an occassional jogging commuter, I was thinking about this the other day. Some back-of-the-envelope math and I figure that the cost of replacing shoes is in the ballpark of cost of fuel per mile for many people.
I'm guessing this guy (if the story is even true) doesn't replace his boots between 300 and 1000 miles like most runners do with training shoes.
Maybe he should spend the dough on a house close to work rather than a car. He obviously enjoys the walking to some extent or else wouldn't do it this many years.
I'm in the camp that this story is probably exaggerated quite a bit, but even if partly true, it's nice he's getting some help with transportation.
If you click on over to the Detroit Free Press article, this dude makes more outlandish claims.
He states that he gets 2 hours of sleep every night (arrives home at 4am, wakes up at 6am and leaves home at 8am). I'm not buying that at all.
To settle the bike on a bus controversy, look at this screen grab from the DFP article which clearly shows a bike rack on the bus:
This guy just bamboozled a thousands of people for $280,000 (and counting).
Here is the go fund me link:
So I have gone over 5 years without a raise when will my gofundme be created. The cost of everything has gone up, and before you ask I am too old to look for a new job.
Thanks for the info. Does that $280k go straight to him for the designated purpose of getting transportation, etc., or can he end up using it however he wants? (I'm not sure how gofundme works.)
It doesn't even directly go to him. It goes to the teenager who started the fund. Whether he gives the money or not is up to him.
I saw a couple other "Buy this man a car" funds with over $1000 and I don't doubt all of them are scams.
This cat is tired of the old lady and is stringing her along with the walk to work bit.
while she goes for it hes at the bar til 2, hooking up til 3:30 then coming back home at 4. He then leaves at 6, takes a nap at hidden car and ready for another round the next night.
God bless this man and where can I donate money to further the cause. TRUE PIMPING!!
The guy looks like he walks down to the local chicken shack or gin mill. I feel sorry for any idiot who would give this hustler money.
I'd rather donate my money to help Bruce Jenner lose his nuts.
No way this is the whole story. Any normal person would move.
I used to run 8.5 miles to work in the winter.. use the showers at work then work a 12 hour shift hard physical labour then run 8.5 miles home. I did this 4 days a week and i was totally exausted all the time.. i had no time to cook. I started feeling dizzy/light headed at work. I could keep this up more than 3 months