Homeless lottery winner..sort of...

periodictable

came across this....
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10153957433035105

mixed feelings-taking advantage of the homeless guy or look beyond the stunt and see someone getting some badly needed money?

periodictable

snap...

Mini Dude

Mr.S wrote: »

Why wouldn't he just give him the $1000?

As he wanted to make a video, only reason I could imagine

jimboblep

why not just do it without videoing it

Joeseph Balls

Very nice thing to do but cant shake the feeling of 'look at me, look at what i did'.
The genuine reaction from the homeless guy is lovely, but i cant help felling all he is, is a pawn.
I hope im wrong.

Fr_Dougal

Thread needs a poll.

MS.ing

what sort of a lotto prize is becoming homeless..




a bad one

MS.ing

Joeseph Balls wrote: »

Very nice thing to do but cant shake the feeling of 'look at me, look at what i did'.

isnt that the whole point of facebook

Joeseph Balls

MS.ing wrote: »

isnt that the whole point of facebook

Your ideas are intriguing to me and i wish to subscribe to your newsletter...

B.A._Baracus

So some dude, who makes good money off youtube, sits around one day brainstorming new ideas for videos. It comes to him that he should 'give' a homeless man 1000 dollers because such a 'kind act' would surely go viral and make good money.

The youtube video already has over 12 million hits. At least making $18,000. So while on one hand, a homeless man got 1000 bucks is a very nice thing that you cant argue with. But on the other hand, we all see through this nice business move.

But ultimately.... since a kind act was done... Guess all the above is crap.

Guy:Incognito

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

But ultimately.... since a kind act was done... Guess all the above is crap.

Is it an act of kindness if your doing it to make money though?Or are you just hiring someone on a short term contract?

DEFTLEFTHAND

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

So some dude, who makes good money off youtube, sits around one day brainstorming new ideas for videos. It comes to him that he should 'give' a homeless man 1000 dollers because such a 'kind act' would surely go viral and make good money.

The youtube video already has over 12 million hits. At least making $18,000. So while on one hand, a homeless man got 1000 bucks is a very nice thing that you cant argue with. But on the other hand, we all see through this nice business move.

But ultimately.... since a kind act was done... Guess all the above is crap.

I get what you're saying, it's hard not to be cynical when you factor in the money they're making from youtube. These types of videos have become popular in the past 6 months or so, There's another crowd in the States called GiveBackFilms who do it, even pranksters like Vitaly and RomanAtwood have got in on it.

if they want to be charitable, maybe give the homeless guy the money made from the you tube video.

that 18 g would go a long way for him.