Now mailmen/wimen can log quite a few miles as well with their job but not 21. I did have a job myself where i would run more than 30 miles sometimes but that was the job and it was alot of stop and go like.. run one mile break for10 minutes. Repeat.... and it was not every day of the week
Hahaha
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.
not a hero wrote:
In all these years, the guy couldn't a) find a place to live closer to his place of employment, b) find employment closer to his home, c) get a bike. If he really did spend all those hours commuting, couldn't he have instead engaged in paid employment for a fraction of the time and raised the money to fix his car in a fairly short timeframe?
Sorry, not a hero. Discretion is the better part of valor. Doing something unnecessarily difficult isn't heroic.
haha love this one. someone actual being rational about the situation. tell that to the idiots who donated money to get this clown a car
for real doooough wrote:
not a hero wrote:In all these years, the guy couldn't a) find a place to live closer to his place of employment, b) find employment closer to his home, c) get a bike. If he really did spend all those hours commuting, couldn't he have instead engaged in paid employment for a fraction of the time and raised the money to fix his car in a fairly short timeframe?
Sorry, not a hero. Discretion is the better part of valor. Doing something unnecessarily difficult isn't heroic.
haha love this one. someone actual being rational about the situation. tell that to the idiots who donated money to get this clown a car
Yeah. This pretty much sums up most "progresssive" attitudes toward race and poverty, particularly towards cities like Detroit. Gotta get the poor guy being discriminated against a new car, never mind the fact that he is clearly either lying or potentially a bit slow. Never mind the huge portion of people in Detroit living below the poverty line, never mind the complete degeneracy of many of its citizens, never mind the corruption, the terrible schools or the terrible city services... we can make a difference by getting the oppressed black man some long overdo privilege. Let's make it into a national news clickbait while failing to mention any of the systemic issues destabilizing the city. If only white people would stop discriminating everyone in Detroit would have the car they deserve.. /sarcasm. These people can't imagine that there is a once great American city where there are huge swathes of "territory" where you can't set foot outside your car as a white person without having a significant chance of being parted out (you and your car.) No not like Chicago's bad neighborhoods... there are neighborhoods in Detroit where plain and simple if you be beige you be organ donor.
I love the comments on the Fee Press article. "What an inspiration." "Now that's a man." "What dedication." Gag me.
I don't buy it. This guy may have made that walk a couple times, but not every day. People have no concept of how far 21 miles is to walk. It's possible for this guy to have done it, but in no way probable.
Plus, and this is the great part, if he was on the day shift at the factory, he could take one bus each way. In ten years he didn't think of asking for a shift change to save literally months of his life?
I hope the various internet funds all turn out to be scams. Can't wait for the inevitable follow up story that this was a hoax.
I bet he only did this one day.
If it turned out to be dean Karnazes in blackface I would totally take back everything I have ever said about him and hereby declare him a genius
I grew up on a ranch outside of Hutchinson, KS in the late 70's/mid 80's. Our family farmed a little over 4000 acres (as well as ran upwards of 400 cattle), so it was not uncommon to have hired hands around much of the time. We had a guy that worked for us for 2 years. The guy rarely spoke, was from Chile, and worked his backside off every day. His name was Humberto. I'll never forget that. I'll tell you why. As far as we knew, he walked to and from his house to the ranch every Tues through Saturday. Many times, if it was raining or snowing, we'd offer to at least drive him home at the end of the day's work. He always turned us down. One winter night, it was a virtual blizzard, the sun had long since gone down, and he declined spending the night in one of the guest rooms. He was accepting of the offer to drive him home, however. I was shocked to find that he lived a bit over 8 miles away in a small rental house. He was apparently jogging and walking the 16 miles a day on the dirt/gravel roads...in work boots and full work gear, no less. He had been doing this for 2 years, mind you. Upon hearing this, my mother was aghast, and promptly requested that my dad allow him to stay in the travel trailer we had during the week. The guy refused. About a month later, he didn't show up for work 3 days in a row, which was highly unlike him. I took dad to his house (he had no phone), and there was a Hispanic guy loading some belongings into a pickup. By this time on my life, I had picked up Spanish from working all day with guys that pretty much spoke no English. I asked this guy where Humberto was, and found that he had shot and killed someone in a bar outside of Wichita. We couldn't believe it. We never saw him again.
21 miles walk/day is possible. 2 hours sleep/night is not possible. My guess is he does have a car, parked at the second girlfriend's house, where he gets the additional sleep. The walking is just a story for the first girlfriend, to explain why he is never around.
Roller blades?
Haven't you people ever taken the bus?
It is obvious that this guy probably usually takes transit some of his trip, walking the gaps when the system doesn't work. (Missed transfers, busses offline, etc.)
In terms of "21 miles per day" that is just CNN counting his miles the way Letsrunners count theirs:
"Well, USUALLY I PLAN to run 10 miles every weekday. I don't most weeks because of work or something else, but I COULD."
"I COULD easily do a medium long-run 15-miler on Wednesdays. SOMETIMES I do. So lets say I do 55 miles Monday-Friday."
"MOST weekends I do a long run, SOMETIMES up to 23 miles."
"USUALLY I take the other day off but I COULD do another 10-miler."
"So yeah, I run 88.00 miles per week."
KS Cosmosphere wrote:
I grew up on a ranch outside of Hutchinson, KS in the late 70's/mid 80's. Our family farmed a little over 4000 acres (as well as ran upwards of 400 cattle), so it was not uncommon to have hired hands around much of the time. We had a guy that worked for us for 2 years. The guy rarely spoke, was from Chile, and worked his backside off every day. His name was Humberto. I'll never forget that. I'll tell you why. As far as we knew, he walked to and from his house to the ranch every Tues through Saturday. Many times, if it was raining or snowing, we'd offer to at least drive him home at the end of the day's work. He always turned us down. One winter night, it was a virtual blizzard, the sun had long since gone down, and he declined spending the night in one of the guest rooms. He was accepting of the offer to drive him home, however. I was shocked to find that he lived a bit over 8 miles away in a small rental house. He was apparently jogging and walking the 16 miles a day on the dirt/gravel roads...in work boots and full work gear, no less. He had been doing this for 2 years, mind you. Upon hearing this, my mother was aghast, and promptly requested that my dad allow him to stay in the travel trailer we had during the week. The guy refused. About a month later, he didn't show up for work 3 days in a row, which was highly unlike him. I took dad to his house (he had no phone), and there was a Hispanic guy loading some belongings into a pickup. By this time on my life, I had picked up Spanish from working all day with guys that pretty much spoke no English. I asked this guy where Humberto was, and found that he had shot and killed someone in a bar outside of Wichita. We couldn't believe it. We never saw him again.
One follow up question: did you ever get the chance to tell Humerto that you were in love with him?
truce beet old wrote:
Haven't you people ever taken the bus?
It is obvious that this guy probably usually takes transit some of his trip, walking the gaps when the system doesn't work. (Missed transfers, busses offline, etc.)
Since reading comprehension is obviously not one of your strengths, let me help you out. He lives much further than 21 miles from his workplace. The news reports clearly state that he claims to walk 21 total miles per day. The bus riding miles are in addition to the walking miles. But the whole story is completely fabricated anyways, so it doesn't matter.
He should run around twice a day in circles like a normal person
Most of the questions asked here are settled in the article. There's no bus in the Rochester Hills area because like many other suburbs around Detroit, they opted out of paying the SMART bus fees to get the routes. He sleeps on the bus portion of the route. The comments here are disgusting. Why would a set of runners dedicated to a useless, painful pursuit be so condemning of a very very unusual person who commutes this way every day? I commute 16 miles r/t by running (taking three buses over a 2 hr period would be the only public transportation alternative). There just are these no-public transportation zones, thanks to people like you who do not support any public spending. Near here, there is a major, major thoroughfare lined with housing developments stretching for ten or twenty miles without a single bus along it and once I was stupid and locked my keys in the car at a Y and had to walk 5 miles carrying my daughter to get another set of keys and run the 5M back to get the car. Cars are simply too expensive for someone making subsistence wages, particularly with insurance rates that in Detroit are the highest in the country. His walk, however, is much more difficult and dangerous and he was mugged at one point. In other countries and in past times in this country, it was very common to walk such distances. People outside mega- third world cities do this kind of thing every day. I stayed with a rural family in Malawi where the father would walk this far every day into the city where he was an x-ray technician. Is it, maybe, that he is black? If he were white, would you admire him? And of course he didn't start the funds or ask for them either.
Yes, we all hate him because he's black.
Want to know why I think he's a moron? A beater bike would cost almost nothing, and it would take HOURS off of his commute. Know what would be even better? Save up a couple bucks a week and buy a moped. Sure it would suck during the winter, but know what else sucks? Walking 21 damn miles a day.
By the way, the story is a hoax. No way does someone who burns 2000+ calories a day just walking to and from work look like that. He may have done the walk a couple times, but there's NO WAY he's done the walk every day for the last decade.
Looks like someone is trying to justify wasting money in this liars fund raising scheme.
He didn't ask for charity. Someone else raised the money.
99% chance this story is BS.
I saw the TV segment on this guy and he is a bit overweight and walks funny. I don't think he could manage doing this for a week, yet alone years.
I wonder if the truth will ever come out.
Don't buy Mr. Detroit's story, but this one I do:
Birch Creek man found alive after 46-mile walk at 35 below zero
Note last graf: a little anti-freeze helps