Louisiana Nine-Year-Old Awarded After Giving His Only Dollar to Millionaire He Mistook for Homeless Man

Breitbart ^ | May 4, 2024 | Olivia Rondeau

[chickenlips]

An unlikely friendship has formed between a nine-year-old Louisiana boy and a multimillionaire businessman after the child confused him for a homeless man and offered him his only dollar.

When a fire alarm in his building awoke television personality and sporting goods brand owner Matt Busbice in April, he grabbed some random mismatched clothes and headed outside.

After placing an order at a coffee shop down the street, Busbice went onto the patio to quietly pray, security footage from the shop, shared with WBRZ, shows.

That was when Kelvin Ellis Jr. wandered by and saw Busbice standing in the corner with his eyes closed.

“I started to slowly open my eyes, and there’s a kid coming at me, about my height,” Busbice said to CBS News.

Ellis Jr. unfurled his clenched fist to unveil a $1 bill he had gotten from his father for earning good grades.

“And I go, ‘What?'” Busbice told host Steve Hartman.

“‘If you’re homeless, here’s a dollar,'” Ellis Jr. recalled telling Busbice.

“I always wanted to help a homeless person, and I finally had the opportunity,” the boy said.

However, Busbice was not a homeless man — just disheveled from being awoken by a loud alarm. He is actually the owner of outdoors brands BuckFeather, Tectonic USA, and AccuBow and the host of Viral Outdoors on Outdoor Channel.

Instead of being offended over being mistaken for a homeless person, the 42-year-old millionaire invited Ellis Jr. to have breakfast with him.

The footage from CC’s Coffee House then shows the young boy going next door to ask his father for permission. Upon receiving an affirmative answer, he returned and joined Busbice for a breakfast sandwich and coffee for his dad.

[chickenlips]

Sounds like this young man has parents that have raised him right.

[pollywog]

wow!! Just WOW... the America I grew up in 82 years ago!!!!

[Dawgreg]

Sounds like this young man has parents that have raised him right.

Just when you think the whole world has gone rotten along comes a nine year old boy for you to see it ain’t so bad after all. Too bad we can’t see all these demonstrations of love and caring. God bless this wonderful young man and his family.

[Dawgreg]

wow!! Just WOW... the America I grew up in 82 years ago!!!!

I’m with ya......

[metmom]

For sure.....

[butterdezillion]

I see the same thing in my grandkids.

They give me hope.A reason to keep fighting.

[Chode]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=R5AESig_9YQ&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2F&feature=emb_title

[faithhopecharity]

sounds like a good kid (not likely to sell his soul demonstrating for the Arab terrorist murder gangs)
.. must have good parents

and a good store owner, too.

nice little story, uplifting even absent a kitty kat rescue, thanks

[TexasFreeper2009]

wow... nice to see a nice young man instead of some aspiring rapper.

[Drew68]

Sorry, but this story sounds scripted as s**t.

Call me cynical.

[Secret Agent Man]

Great story, thanks for posting :)

[null and void]

You’re cynical.

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

OK. You’re cynical.

If it were PedoJoe Biteme that he gave the dollar to, PedoJoe would have kept it, called in the IRS to investigate undeclared income, and then tax the boy on it.

[frank ballenger]

There is a different story on an Anthony Robbins CD. He wanted his little boy to not become a troubled, spoiled id of a multimillionaire father. One way was to let him give some money to various homeless people.

He stayed back down an alley between rows of buildings and told his son to go down to the end and give money to the very poor looking man sitting next to his meager belongings and some trash containers.

The boy did so but the man suddenly reached out and grabbed his wrist firmly.
Robbins ran down to him, wondering if he was going to fall forward from the panicky run and thinking “How could I have been so stupid? This is all my fault.”
When he got there the man smiled at the son and said “Thank you. Thank you for caring.”

[PeterPrinciple]

Offer the homeless a job and then see what happens.

[Nervous Tick]

>> Call me cynical.

You’re cynical.

I believe this story. There is a GOD. There is a King Jesus. And there is a Holy Ghost. They are alive and good and ACTIVE.

[Carriage Hill]

Nicest thing I’ve heard all day.
Don’t pee in my Cap’n Crunch...

[null and void]

It depends on the homeless person:

Zot

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null and void to zingzang

When someone is homeless, give them a home.

Oddly enough, I tried this experiment last winter. It was very intertaining having up to a dozen former homeless in my 1000 sq ft house, garage and basement.

They are out now, although occaisonally one will drop by and thank me for helping them, and just to say hi. Mostly they were good kids, in trouble. Having a warm place to sleep, and address to put on an employment application and access to a shower and laundry facilities was the leg up they needed.

Mostly they respected my room and personal property. I did lose some minor stuff, but I think on the whole I made a positive difference in some of their young lives. And mine.

I really appreciate my own good fortune, having seen so many examples of how bad it could have been.

That being said, there are REAL REASONS some of them were homeless...

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The takeaway?

The homeless kids were OK. The adults, not so much.

For years afterwards I'd get a knock on the door and it would be one of the kids, just coming by to thank me!

I did so little, it meant so much to them.

Rather humbling...

[Aut Pax Aut Bellum]

This is not only good kid, he has a great dad that is raising him well.

[lee martell]

The boys’ father should have politely declined any such gifts and bestoments. Too much is being made of a simple act of kindness. Could you blame this child if he begins to expect a lush payback for such good deeds in the future? The millionaire may be operating from a sense of being embarrassed at being mistaken for a Street Dweller, so he goes overboard in trying to impress this little minority kid and family on how rich and important he really is.