What to do when the shopowner gets an heart attack?

inforfun

https://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/7512829/3b5e01a3/medewerker_krijgt_hartaanval.html

Rob the place of course

https://www.gofundme.com/relief-for-zarif

Zarif has been in the hospital in critical care since 9/8/2018. He got into an argument with 3 males who didn't want to pay for items they took. He was able to get $1 from them. As he turned around to go back to the counter, he passed out due to an underlying medical condition. One of the men then took the dollar from his hand, jumped the counter to grab some cigarettes, and ran out the door - all of them leaving him to die.

aaakev

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Hector Savage

And then they came back and emptied the till ... charming fellas !

Bob Harris

aaakev wrote: »

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7aubzxk43m2sni

Bob Harris wrote: »

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The_Kew_Tour

Poor man. What a way to die with that lot by your side

Turnipman

Almost $26,000 raised in less than 3 days! Happily, there are still quite a few decent people in the world.

And, given the quality of the shop's security video, the vermin who callously left him to die should be caught quite easily.

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

Poor man. What a way to die with that lot by your side

He's not dead yet! Hopefully he'll make a full recovery.

Wheety

Am I the only one who feels skeptical about a lot of GoFundMe pages? I'm not saying this one is dodgy but how can you know for sure if a GoFundMe page will actually hand the money over? Seems like a very easy thing for a scammer to set up when something like this happens or the guy who had a scrambler motorbike land on him?

Do GoFundMe do any checks?

inforfun

Wheety wrote: »

Am I the only one who feels skeptical about a lot of GoFundMe pages? I'm not saying this one is dodgy but how can you know for sure if a GoFundMe page will actually hand the money over? Seems like a very easy thing for a scammer to set up when something like this happens or the guy who had a scrambler motorbike land on him?

Do GoFundMe do any checks?

Best description of what had happened was on the gofundme page. That is the main reason why i added it.

There are some dubious pages to be found there indeed.

Dakota Dan

Wheety wrote: »

Am I the only one who feels skeptical about a lot of GoFundMe pages? I'm not saying this one is dodgy but how can you know for sure if a GoFundMe page will actually hand the money over? Seems like a very easy thing for a scammer to set up when something like this happens or the guy who had a scrambler motorbike land on him?

Do GoFundMe do any checks?

It’s a form of legalised begging, how did people manage before go fund me?

Wheety

Dakota Dan wrote: »

It’s a form of legalised begging, how did people manage before go fund me?

Local fundraisers mostly. Anything like this were people have sympathy for the victim usually sees money flying in. No way would you make the same from pub quizzes and car washes etc.

TheQuietFella

Dakota Dan wrote: »

It’s a form of legalised begging, how did people manage before go fund me?

Too true! My ethos is if you want something get it yourself or in the situation
as described above the guy should have had insurance and the cop on not to
go up against three guys on his own!

By the way I'm looking to upgrade the house and car shortly so if you see an advert please donate generously! I'm only on 40K a year!

Dakota Dan

Wheety wrote: »

Local fundraisers mostly. Anything like this were people have sympathy for the victim usually sees money flying in. No way would you make the same from pub quizzes and car washes etc.

Something that requires effort go fund me is the lazy way. The local old folks home here are organising a mock wedding to raise money. I wonder how much of a cut the website owners get?

Wheety

inforfun wrote: »

Best description of what had happened was on the gofundme page. That is the main reason why i added it.

There are some dubious pages to be found there indeed.

And this does seem legit but I'm always a bit wary as I could set up a page saying I work with a victim of some horrendous crime and grab a picture from social media and start collecting money. Just wondering if there's anything, apart from morals, stopping me.

And regarding getting arrested for fraud or whatever, there are people out there very good at hiding their location, even if they use a bank account and id to set up the GoFundMe page.

Maybe I'm being too pessimistic about people

Dakota Dan

They get a nice cut
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.azcentral.com/amp/859211001

Wheety

Dakota Dan wrote: »

They get a nice cut
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.azcentral.com/amp/859211001

Here it's 2.9% plus 0.25 per donation.

They do encourage people to report any suspicious pages.

Sorry for taking this off topic. Perhaps this kind of chat is for another thread.

markc1184

Wheety wrote: »

Am I the only one who feels skeptical about a lot of GoFundMe pages? I'm not saying this one is dodgy but how can you know for sure if a GoFundMe page will actually hand the money over? Seems like a very easy thing for a scammer to set up when something like this happens or the guy who had a scrambler motorbike land on him?

Do GoFundMe do any checks?

There is a couple being investigated in America after starting a GoFundMe for a homeless man, raising $400k but allegedly only giving him $75k while spending the rest on living a lavish lifestyle.

7aubzxk43m2sni

TheQuietFella wrote: »

Too true! My ethos is if you want something get it yourself or in the situation
as described above the guy should have had insurance and the cop on not to
go up against three guys on his own!

By the way I'm looking to upgrade the house and car shortly so if you see an advert please donate generously! I'm only on 40K a year!

Are you joking?

He collapsed from a medical condition, it wasn't about not having the "cop on". Sh!t can happen to anyone, I hope you're shown more sympathy than you're displaying here if something horrible happens to you

Irish Guitarist

aaakev wrote: »

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Bob Harris wrote: »

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Rex Prehistoric Klutz wrote: »

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None of the above.

Irish Guitarist

I was going to donate $1 so he'd get back the dollar your man took from his hand but was told "Donation amount must be at least $5". Fuck that.

I thought this was kind of relevant to the thread. Its the best idea I have seen in a long time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-rEI4bezWc

Hector Bellend

well tonight thank god it's them instead of you

TheQuietFella

Rex Prehistoric Klutz wrote: »

Are you joking?

He collapsed from a medical condition, it wasn't about not having the "cop on". Sh!t can happen to anyone, I hope you're shown more sympathy than you're displaying here if something horrible happens to you

I'm out on sympathy unfortunately!