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Un passant donne 100 dollars a un homeless(SDF), voici ce qu’il va faire avec l’argent

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Comme beaucoup de monde, vous vous êtes déjà certainement demandé ce que faisaient les sans-abri avec l’argent qu’ils recevaient des passants. Un Américain s’est posé cette question et a eu une réponse plutôt étonnante.

Pour mettre au point son expérience, Josh Paler Lin a donné 100 dollars à un SDF. L’idée était de le suivre avec une caméra cachée pour voir ce qu’il allait faire de ce généreux don.

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UPDATE

Here’s a feel-good story for the holidays.

A video published Monday about Thomas, a homeless man, went mega viral, wracking up nearly 2 million views in about a day (now up to over 14 million views).

Here’s what happened: YouTube prankster star Josh Paler Lin wanted to find out what happens if you give a homeless guy $100. How would he spend that money? He approached Thomas, who was holding a sign on the street asking for money, and gave him $100. Thomas was near tears at the amount and tried to refuse but Lin insisted.

Lin then followed Thomas with a camera. Thomas beelined for a liquor store.

But it turns out, Thomas bought food at the store. He then walked to a nearby park and handed the food out to other homeless folks, people he didn’t know.

Lin, who was hiding and filming, was floored. He came out of hiding and apologized to Thomas.

Thomas has been homeless for about four months, he told Lin when asked. He wound up on the street after both of his parents died. They had grown ill and their insurance didn’t cover all of their care, so he quit his job to take care of them. After they died, their condo was sold to pay the bills and he had no place to go.

« There’s a lot of people that are just victims of circumstance and they didn’t go homeless because they’re lazy or … it could be a divorce, one thing leads to another and the man sells his boat, his home, everything, and all of a sudden he finds out he’s got no money. There’s a lot of good people that are homeless, » he told Lin.

The man touched Lin so much, he insisted Thomas take another $100. But it touched viewers so much, they insisted that Lin set up a crowdfunding account where they could donate to help get Thomas back on his feet.

Hours after that, via an Indiegogo crowdfunding site, the Internet had pledged to give the man more than $13,000. By December 22, the tally was more than $35,000. And by December 24, had hit over $75,000, and still climbing by hundreds of dollars an hour. ($90,000 at the time of this posting). Only in America,kids,only in America.

 

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