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Viral $400K GoFundMe For Homeless Guy Who Gave Stranded Couple $20 Gas Money Turned Out To Be A Scam, But Don’t Feel Bad Because The Homeless Guy Was Probably In On It

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I remember back in November, right before our Facebook page went down, a story we were looking at was a potential GoFundMe scam that had gone viral in New Jersey. A homeless guy gave $20 worth of gas to a broken down couple on the side of the highway near Philadelphia. They told his story and everyone started donating to the homeless guy with a heart of gold who gave his only $20 to help strangers in need.

They raised over $400,000 for him, which was supposed to buy him a new home and a car. I knew there was something wrong with this story, and it looks like our instincts were correct:

SourceGoFundMe is investigating what happened to $403,000 raised to help a homeless veteran after he said the couple who set up the fundraising account has kept the vast majority of the money.

“GoFundMe is looking into the claims of misuse regarding this campaign,” GoFundMe said in a statement. “When there is a dispute, we work with all parties involved to ensure funds go to the right place. We will work to ensure that Johnny receives the help he deserves and that the donors’ intentions are honored,” the company said. “GoFundMe always cooperates with Law Enforcement investigations.”

In November of 2017, 35-year-old homeless veteran Johnny Bobbitt used his last $20 to help a woman who had run out of gas on a freeway ramp in a bad neighborhood in Philadelphia. Bobbitt told 38-year-old Kate McClure to lock her car doors, and then he hiked to a gas station himself and brought back gas to fill up her tank, according to the Independent.

Afterwards, McClure and her boyfriend Mark D’Amico set up a GoFundMe campaign for the homeless man who had selflessly helped her. She told everyone they were raising the money so that the Good Samaritan wouldn’t have to sleep under a bridge, and said he deserved a fresh start.

“I wish that I could do more for this selfless man, who went out of his way just to help me that day,” McClure wrote in the GoFundMe campaign she set up with D’Amico. “He is such a great guy, and talking to him each time I see him makes me want to help him more and more.”

The story pulled at heartstrings and got an immense amount of media coverage – McClure and D’Amico even appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America with Bobbitt – and the fundraising campaign with an initial goal of $10,000 skyrocketed to almost $402,706 donated by 14,347 people who wanted to help the homeless veteran.

However, the vast majority of the money raised never made it to the intended recipient, NBC News reported. Initially, McClure said their plan was to get Bobbitt a house and his dream truck, a 1999 Ford Ranger, and Bobbitt said he planned to give some of the money to groups who helped him when he was struggling with homelessness, the Independent reported.

“He will never have to worry about a roof over his head again!!” the couple posted on GoFundMe.

The couple promised donors that they would hire an attorney and a financial planner to help Bobbitt manage the money and invest for his future, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. 

“The first thing on the list is a NEW Home which Johnny will own!!” McClure and D’Amico wrote on the GoFundMe page.

But that rosy picture quickly changed when the home McClure and D’Amico bought for Bobbitt was a camper, which they registered in their own names and parked on property belonging to D’Amico’s family. They also bought him a television, a laptop, two cellphones, food, clothing, and a used SUV that quickly broke down, according to the Independent. McClure and D’Amico claimed they put the camper and the SUV in McClure’s name so that Bobbitt couldn’t sell them, but the couple later sold both of the vehicles out from under Bobbitt, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

Bobbitt admitted that he continued to struggle with drugs, but said that he never met the lawyer they were supposed to hire for him and only met with a financial planner once, although he didn’t sign any paperwork for the trusts the couple was allegedly setting up for him. Despite the grand plan they presented to donors, D’Amico told the Philadelphia Inquirer that he never set up any trust for Bobbitt and said the remaining $200,000 is in his own savings account that he will not dispense until Bobbitt gets a job and is drug free. D’Amico said he controlled the money and has done nothing wrong.

“Giving him all that money, it’s never going to happen. I’ll burn it in front of him,” D’Amico said. He claimed giving the money to somebody with Bobbitt’s problems would be like “giving him a loaded gun.”

However, D’Amico has recently had his own legal problems in the form of traffic tickets, a suspended driver’s license, and an arrest for failing to appear in municipal court, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. And there are lots of questions about what D’Amico and McClure may have done with most of the money donated to help Bobbitt. D’Amico, a carpenter, and McClure, a receptionist for the New Jersey Department of Transportation, have taken vacations to California, Florida, and Las Vegas since November, and even did a helicopter tour of the Grand Canyon.

McClure purchased a new BMW and D’Amico admitted he had used some of the money gambling, although he claimed he paid it back, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Bobbitt said he felt betrayed and questioned whether the couple could legally keep the funds that had been donated for him.

“I think it might have been good intentions in the beginning, but with that amount of money, I think it became greed,” Bobbitt told the Philadelphia Inquirer from his new home under a bridge where he lives with his younger brother Josh.

He said that while he was living in the camper near the couple’s house, he observed D’Amico spending more time gambling online or at casinos than working as a carpenter. He said the couple refused to discuss finances with him and would make large withdrawals but only give him a little bit of the money. Homeless advocates have put Bobbitt in touch with pro bono attorneys to help him figure out what happened to the money that was donated to him.

“I think he is just a genuine, sincere person who has been the victim of so many bad circumstances,” Jacqueline Promislo, of the law firm Cozen O’Connor, told the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Promislo and her colleague Chris Fallon signed on to represent Bobbitt last week.

“We want to make sure he has the opportunity to benefit from the incredible generosity of people,” Promislo said.

Bobbitt said that all he wanted to do was get the money and relocate home to North Carolina or out to Montana with his brother. He was engaged and studying to be a paramedic before he got involved with drugs and ended up homeless, and he had been looking forward to the opportunity to start over, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. 

“I’m not going to lie and say I wasn’t thrilled about the money,” Bobbitt told the Philadelphia Inquirer. “Who wouldn’t be?”

D’Amico has continued to tell “an evolving account of his stewardship of the money,” the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. He has refused to produce financial records from the bank accounts where he said he deposited the GoFundMe money, and said he only claimed he had set up trust because Bobbitt wanted him to say that. McClure, meanwhile, is worried that she may lose her job over the bad publicity surrounding the couple’s alleged malfeasance with the funds, and told the Philadelphia Inquirer through tears that she and D’Amico had done all they could to help Bobbitt.

Here they are at their $2,400 New Years Eve party….

On a $500 helicopter ride in the Grand Canyon:

Getting picked up at the airport by a limo in LA:

At Disney

And soaking in the spotlight…..

I knew this was a scam from day one. But what everyone is failing to realize is that the homeless guy is obviously in on it. He’s just become a sympathetic character in this story because these chudnuggets screwed him over.

The Internet has turned its collective anger towards the people who didn’t give him the money, but what they fail to realize is that they’re 100% right not to give him the money. He’s a drug addict. He’s not going to spend it on a house, and if he did then he would never be able to afford the taxes on it, since he’d blow it all on smack. This mofo would’ve spent every red cent on drugs.

People who don’t write blogs about ratchets all day often fall for stories like this. Pro tip – you don’t become homeless on accident. You have to earn that shit in America. We have one of the biggest safety nets in the world. If you end up on the streets is because you neglected to use any of the free taxpayer funded programs at your disposal.

I am immediately suspicious of any homeless person with a sob story. Particularly one who has $20 on him and decides to use it to help two trashbags fill up their gas tank. I didn’t believe that story then and I certainly don’t believe it now. What kind of crackhead is gonna spend his crack money on that? Did his addiction just magically end? Do people not understand how addiction works? Do they not understand the type of personality this guy has to end up homeless? He got this way because he blows all his money on drugs. Period.

Oh, and everything I need to know about the chick can be learned from this:

Dog filter. Nuff said. Guarantee you her chudstuffer at one point in time owned a flat brimmed Chicago Bulls hat.

Here’s what probably happened. They were all in on this together. Obviously Mark D’Amico is a swamp maggot with Google trophies up the wazoo. They told this homeless guy, “Let’s say you gave us your last $20 when we ran out of gas, everyone will feel bad for you, and we’ll all cash in on the GoFundMe together.”

He was like, “sure, why not? I’m homeless, da fuq do I have to lose?” 

And it worked out better than any of them could’ve imagined.

The problem arose when reality sent in. Bootleg Kevin Federline and realized that the guy they partnered was indeed a junkbox who wanted to have a $400,000 crack giveaway party. The plan was to split the cash, but he felt bad since he’d just be feeding this guy’s habit. So instead of buying him a house they bought him a camper which they put on their property, and that turned into a nightmare because he sat in it all day, got high, and made sweet, sweet love to himself.

Finally the homeless dude said, “Fuck it, I’m going to give handies under the bridge for crack money since these chiselers aren’t giving me what they promised.” And here we are.

Meanwhile they claim to have the remaining money in the bank. I say remaining because they hired Candy Dennis as a travel agent and began blowing all their money on stupid trips they couldn’t afford on their salaries, and then wisely posting evidence of it on Facebook. So there’s probably not much money left, and they’re not opening their books. The guy even dipped into the funds to go to the casino. That tells you everything you need to know about him.

The bottom line is that this is why you should be hesitant to ever give to a GoFundMe. Especially a viral GoFundMe that seems too good to be true. Because it probably is. At the end of the day I don’t even know if this is illegal. But I also could give a shit less at the morons who donated to this because they wanted to feel good about themselves. Those people deserve to be swindled. Quite frankly I’d rather have the bootleg Brittany and Kevin spend the money than homeless Hank. He’d just blow it all on drugs and dig himself an early grave. At least they’re spending money in places that stimulates the economy. I couldn’t be happier that these people scammed all these idiots out of their hard earned money. Lesson learned morons.

20 Comment(s)
  • judge dread
    September 7, 2018 at 4:07 pm

    they have 0 left. i hope they go to jail.

  • TheTurtleRules
    September 1, 2018 at 9:59 am

    Just saw on Yahoo news page, they have been ordered to pay the vet the money
    cant put the link because I dont think TB allows links. I have tried a couple times already

  • TheTurtleRules
    September 1, 2018 at 9:56 am
  • Toilet Terry
    August 28, 2018 at 11:47 pm

    Lord, what a bunch of brain dead morons giving money to some flea-ridden bearded jerk off in some pathetic attempt to feel morally superior. Imagine what that $400K could have done for child cancer patients at Dana Farber…

  • deflateddoritodinks
    August 28, 2018 at 2:40 pm

    I kept wondering how a homeless dug addict would even have $20 much less give it to somebody like a person with a fucking CAR? His $20 would only be taken from his cold dead hand.

  • Stunt Penis
    August 28, 2018 at 7:04 am

    I know how Kate can make some money to pay back the money she stole.

    $1 at a time.

  • cunt evaluator
    August 27, 2018 at 8:58 pm

    Kate is cute, i like her better as a blonde. gfm’s are so suspect, thanks to tbs. Would never contribute to one. The odd thing that is not mentioned is, why didn’t this couple offer to send him and possibly his brother to a high priced sober clinic to get him cleaned up? There seems to be some blurred lines of communication and information. I could give a fuck less either way. Hope the marine cleans up and gets his cash

  • vicx1
    August 27, 2018 at 8:47 pm

    If they go broke again, I would give them 20 to peg her for sure. I would add an extra $10 to make the guy watch me pound her.

  • Captain Trips
    Captain Trips
    August 27, 2018 at 8:15 pm

    Tell the husband Heinrich Himmler wants his hairdo back

  • swagger
    August 27, 2018 at 7:51 pm

    Which one of the two guys is the homeless one?

    • Captain Trips
      Captain Trips
      August 27, 2018 at 8:23 pm

      The homeless guy is not the one with razor stubble and the most fucking punchable face I have seen this side of that Hogg asshole

  • swagger
    August 27, 2018 at 7:49 pm

    “Gas money” and “scam” pretty much always go hand-in-hand.

  • Kim Wescott
    TheCureForHope
    August 27, 2018 at 4:03 pm

    Doesn’t GFM promise to reimburse donors in cases like this?

  • Judge dread
    August 27, 2018 at 2:58 pm

    These are typical jersey liberals. I read about this on zerohedge this morning and apparently she bought a brand new bmw, but she works at the DOT as a clerk or some shit.

    The fact they brag about vacations, black car service, helicopter rides means they spent every last cent on themselves. I hope this vet permanently disables these idiots by using 4 rounds of .22, 1 to each kneecap, putting these assholes in wheelchairs for life.

  • John Wypyszinski
    Herr Doktor
    August 27, 2018 at 2:47 pm

    The homeless “vet” had a really “stellar” career in the Marines – 14 months with a Bad Conduct Discharge and no deployments. Word is the BCD was for recreational pharmacology… BCD’s come at court martials and are Federal convictions. He may have wanted to try to be a paramedic for access to the narcs, even if he cleans up nobody is gonna give him a job as a medic. Stick to being a bum, better hours and no heavy lifting there sport. And in the future choose your scam partners better, nice try but you fucked up.

    • ncfoothillbilly
      August 27, 2018 at 8:42 pm

      The USN provides a Corpsman for each platoon of USMC infantry. The rest of the ‘doctoring’ is done at a hospital (also USN) on base, unless you happen to be training on an Army base. There are no medical personnel in the Marines.

      • John Wypyszinski
        Herr Doktor
        August 28, 2018 at 6:44 am

        Well aware of how that works, Herr Doktor was an FMF Corpsman many moons ago. Nobody said the “vet” was a medical Marine. Word is the BCD was for “recreational pharmacology” aka drugs. Somebody in the Stolen Valor community did a FOIA on Bobbitt. Sometimes there are people who have more info than you hillbillies, stick to your moonshine because it was pretty decent IIRC.

  • LocalYokel
    August 27, 2018 at 2:33 pm

    Johnny Bobbitt should get all of the $403K. Lord knows it won’t make up for having the same name as the dude who’s wife cut his dick off, but it will give him the means to change his name and get a fresh start.

  • You are the biggest pile of horseshit I have ever read about
    August 27, 2018 at 2:24 pm

    Oh my God….what absolute pieces of shit.

    There had better be fraud charges with long prison sentences for these two in the future.

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