Strangers help 78-year-old DoorDash driver after viral doorbell video
A Ring camera in Manchester, Tennessee, captured a delivery that went viral and led to thousands of strangers helping change a man's life. The video shows a 78-year-old man named Richard slowly climbing the steps up to a home.
"He should be at home, just chilling, exercising a couple times a day to like … to keep his mobility, but working? No, like, I don't know. We need to help him," the homeowner, Brittany Smith, said about Richard in a video she posted to social media.
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Richard sold insurance and retired 13 years ago, but after his wife lost her job, he went back to work delivering food – sometimes for 12 hours a day. "I needed to supplement our income so I started working through DoorDash and it allowed us to pay our bills," he said.
At first, Smith thought the tip would be just enough, but people online had another idea. Smith said she received "hundreds and thousands of messages" asking her to start a GoFundMe page for him. The next morning, she did and called it Give Richard a Chance to Rest Again. In five days, strangers raised almost $1 million for Richard and his wife, who've been married for nearly 56 years.
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to help this elderly man and his wife. It's nice to be reminded there is still benevolence out there.
Thanks for sharing, this.
