Robin Hood 702 strikes again

[Axle_techie]

Yes it is from Foxnews, but try to look past the source and read the story...

http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/07/19/robin-hood-702-strikes-again/


"On a blistering hot Friday morning in Las Vegas, Nevada, an unusual crew strolls out the VIP entrance of one of the most luxurious hotels in town and steps into a stretch limousine. Leading the group is a man who calls himself Robin Hood 702 (702 is the Vegas area code), wearing jeans and a t-shirt, hiding his face behind a beard, hat and sunglasses. He's joined by his much younger beautiful Brazilian wife Gracie wearing heels and a dress. Their friend Dr. Richard Schulze is there too, a very wealthy herbal medicine specialist with a mail-order business who's known as the "Herb Doc" to the stars, treating Sting and Apple's Steve Jobs among others.

The group directs the driver to an address about 20 miles off the Strip, a well-kept apartment complex where an unsuspecting family is about to get the help they've been praying for.

We follow Gracie to the front door with camera crews in tow. She knocks, we wait and after a few moments Jeff Martinez is welcoming us in. Gracie tells him "you have been chosen by Robin Hood 702" and moments later the men enter to embrace Jeff and assure him his immediate financial problems will soon be solved.

Jeff has stage 4 cancer, attacking his colon, liver, adrenal glands and lungs. He's a dispatcher for a motor coach company and continues to work 40 hour weeks while battling the disease. His wife works two jobs and has little time for their two teenage kids, who broke down in tears remembering how they had to move out of the house they've called home for ten years because the family couldn't keep up with the mortgage payments with all the medical bills."

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. good karma

[Romulox]

2. A small tear...

Thanks for the story!

[Javaman]

3. Why the camera's and the mystery?

Plenty of people do the same thing all the time but do it anonymously.

many people help others and do it because it's the right thing yet don't want any publicity.

yet this person gets the glory because he has a camera crew?

this just doesn't sit right with me. this is almost like ed mcmahon giving away million dollar checks on tv.

Although I find his generosity admirable, I find his methodology appalling.

[Axle_techie]

4. perhaps

He wants people to know that there is good being done in the world, but does not want to get the glory for it.

There really are not that many who go around paying someones rent, bills, and groceries for a year at a time other than the people who regularly televise their actions in reality shows so everyone knows exactly who did it...

[Javaman]

5. If he didn't want the glory, then why bring a camera crew?

see my point?

He could just pay it and leave it at that.

The person who receives the gesture still lives with the mystery that there is someone nice out there.

Having to put on this side show is, to me, disingenuous.

There may not be anything more to this, but to me, why promote ones self if there is nothing to promote? It just strikes me as that there will be more to this in the long run.

[Recursion]

6. Fox affiliates' local reporting is usually pretty good

The problem is the national Fox "news" (*cough cough*) machine.