http://www.freep.com/story/news/loc...kland-county-smart-ddot-ford-taurus/79505152/
I could have sworn we had a thread on him here but I have looked and searched several different ways and I can't find it. This is technically an update but it tells the whole story, from the banker who gave him lift and the young man who started the first GFM just to get him a car so he wouldn't have to walk so far to work every day, and he wasn't going to miss work, he had perfect attendance for the last decade.
This article is fairly long but it details the whole thing, even how they all band together to protect him from scammers, and opportunistic relatives. You'll like this man .
I could have sworn we had a thread on him here but I have looked and searched several different ways and I can't find it. This is technically an update but it tells the whole story, from the banker who gave him lift and the young man who started the first GFM just to get him a car so he wouldn't have to walk so far to work every day, and he wasn't going to miss work, he had perfect attendance for the last decade.
Like a lottery winner, his life changed almost overnight: From commuting 21 miles a day on foot to driving a new car — and from fending off feisty pals in an urban rooming house to kicking back in a suburban apartment all his own.
Likewise, James Robertson suddenly had a pile of unearned cash — about $360,000. It poured into three GoFundMe pages on the Internet and kept coming, 24/7, until the humble factory worker said after a week "that’s enough” and the pages were shut down.
Now, just more than a year after the Free Press first told the world about Robertson, dubbed “the Walking Man,” this soft-spoken baseball fan is finding that his windfall and free car make life a lot easier, more relaxing, more fun. Obviously.
This article is fairly long but it details the whole thing, even how they all band together to protect him from scammers, and opportunistic relatives. You'll like this man .
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