[Kartographer]

Well done!

[cripplecreek]

Great story about what appears to be a very solid guy.



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[dynachrome]

$10.55 an hour after 10 years? I gotta wonder, even though he is more dedicated than I ever would be!

[cripplecreek]

Compare him to the ungreatful scumbags demanding $15 per hour to work part time at McDonald’s. Most of them wouldn’t walk a mile and he’s been doing more than 20 for $10.55 an hour.

[A. Morgan]

Check out the fund page:

tinyurl.com/n2uka9o

[cripplecreek]

The Detroit Free Press story is pretty good.

http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2015/01/31/detroit-commuting-troy-rochester-hills-smart-ddot-ubs-banker-woodward-buses-transit/22660785/

[blackdog]

God bless everyone involved in this matter. It is a Dickens world out there and as such we are as a people carved from.

[expat2]

Great story. Good on you, James, and good on you, Evan.

[Ronin]

I bet that after a week he parks the car and goes back to walking. Or maybe parks the car halfway and walks the rest.

Long daily walks like that are habit forming, good for the soul, the heart, and the body.

A person has a time to take his soul out, give it a good look-see, talk to God, contemplate the whichness of what. All sorts of good stuff.

[TomGuy]

Something doesn’t sound right about this story.

I wonder whether we are getting all of the details or if the reporter is filtering the information to create a heart-tug story.

Heck, a bicycle would only cost a couple $hundred bucks.

[Cecily]

Maybe they could help him find an affordable place to live closer to his job too.

[AppyPappy]

They bought a Detroit man?

[Rome2000]

Unfortunately, he doesn’t now how to drive.

[SamAdams76]

And according to his boss, Robertson has a perfect attendance record.

If I had an employee that was that dedicated to get to work each day, I'd have figured out a way to make his commute easier. Car pool maybe?

[Daveinyork]

people helping people to be able to earn a living, with no government involved.

[Talisker]

Strangers raise $60,000 to buy Detroit man who walks to work 21 miles a day a car

[familyop]

James could probably do the editor’s job better, too.

[umgud]

This is touching, but he sure seems to have a lot of meat on his bones for someone walking this many miles per day.

[blu]

And major props to the student who started the fund!

[napscoordinator]

It is up over 104,000 dollars now.

[Abathar]

What really sucks is when he is 1099’d for the cost of the $60k vehicle and only makes what he does.

Hope they figure that in when they let him have it or else he will be hurting next year.