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Woman Gets 3 Years for a Bogus Good Samaritan Online Fundraiser

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0:00 this North Carolina or North Korea this is North Korea back to North Korea now and then so now if uh I mean not North Korea South Korea [Music] so does anybody happen to remember back in 2017 there was this chick right who like got stranded on the side of a highway or something like that in Canada and then this homeless dude comes and helps her out in some way so then she throws a GoFundMe it was a big scam we're not doing that record what that's not no it's not I didn't say it's an operator wait Joe holy ████ so um he put together this GoFundMe to try and

0:50 raise ten thousand dollars right for this Good Samaritan homeless dude it ended up getting I believe four hundred thousand dollars in online donations and it ended up not so much becoming a scam like it was a fake home student and he was in auditor and she just kept it that kind of scam yes her and her boyfriend kept it or some ████ yeah exactly so I don't know why people don't do that more often he had only the the homeless man ended up only receiving I believe about seventy thousand dollars or something like that this is good yeah [Laughter] yeah for taxes and stuff admin fees GoFundMe how to take a cut and then they had to buy a house to house a unhoused right so the three of them didn't get together and manufacture

1:41 that whole story I thought it was all fake we should do that I think it actually started from an actually Good Samaritan type of real situation but I think it was one of those things where it's like oh let's raise ten thousand dollars and then when like ████ 400 000 it wasn't about changing that guys life anymore it was like our lives can change and suddenly whoa an agreed Factory kicked in because once they saw four zero zero and zero zero zero instead of just four zero zero they went you know what he kind of deserves being homeless doesn't he yeah people like seventy thousand will do yeah we worked hard we should get this money that's what happened because they promoted it right yep we did they told the stories that's like an artist and manager you know it's like we ████ were the business behind it you just ████ did your art homeless man it's like the artist and then the record label the record label they're the

2:32 record label and then the homeless guy was just homeless in he goes you got you didn't do ████ you just you're yourself you just did your talent he was a homeless veteran even better with anything he just says even better ask him he's a homeless hula hooper okay whatever it is well that changes everything he owes me 70 000 better in part always makes people go oh man you fought for the country that made me for that and you still begging for money nah if that was true people would take care of them more I feel the opposite when I go to ████ like so Nevada is crazy like veteran friendly right like I'll go to the DMV oh did you know if you go to this Hall uh in City Hall you don't have to pay car registration and I go over here oh did you know if you do this you have that because you're a veteran yeah and the more things I went to City Hall got the paperwork does not pay

3:22 registration anymore the more ████ that I find out the more I feel less sorry for veterans I'm like there's no way you should make it on the streets because this ████ the World's Gonna help your ass dude what the ████ dude that's a great take because you don't hear it that often but it's probably true because you do get benefits like a lot of veterans get discounts all the time dude you can go ████ get the VA and get your ████ eyes checked and ████ and ████ see if your feet smells and they'll fix you AAA discounts see if your feet smells and they fix you they got all kinds of medical ████ all kinds of ████ yeah yeah yeah this guy stinks here let's pick something dude the veteran Community they get hooked up like crazy the ones I do feel bad for are the ones that they have like the Charities for were like ████ legs blown off and they're they're like a hundredth in line at the hospital and they still can't get seen stuff like

4:12 that but then the The Bare Bones regular veteran ████ that anyone could just walk into an office is plentiful because just walk into the office there there has to be veterans that like didn't really do much in the war right in their army or whatever whoa wow slow zoom on Nick they can still go and get their feet right if they're a mailman in World War II they were sending messages right they could still that guy that ████ didn't do anything you see time like me you see I didn't do anything either he could still get his registration ████ taken care of yeah that's pretty why was guarding supplies yeah yeah I said no one via Excel sheet no one's touching these canteens yeah unless I put my dick in them [Laughter] notation okay went to Korea and guarded a graveyard

5:03 that's that's some hard question from which direction I guarded a graveyard in North Carolina from the ghost he went to Korea whoever's supposed to go and spoke fake Korean I was a translator and I manned like a general's ████ comms desk and you know the the Korean generals are actually very nice really yeah so over here we have a uh lower rank eats first you know what I mean like when you go to the child hall or whatever yeah the lower ranks go first the higher rigs stay in the back in Korea that's different so like you know like like the whole hyung concept yeah so the the generals they go and eat first but even before the generals the foreigners eat first oh so that's even though I'm ████ low ranking they're like oh you get to go first and a friend of me so I get to stand with the general and ████ and then

5:54 their child Hall is ████ ████ Mandu ████ noodles and all kinds of he even said noodles like fluffy it was way different dude and I got to eat in ████ Korean atmosphere Wow versus what does that mean like it's Korean restaurant Korean restaurant like they serve you and do this like American military bases it feels like a military base you know I mean it's like wow is this wall ready to disassemble tomorrow it's like that over there it felt yeah that ████ like a blue heron ████ thing there's like neon signs and Soju Zoe describe you guys were just at a Korean restaurant at a buffet welcome to the Korean military I'll show you pictures in the middle of

6:44 the base the middle of the base look like the Huntington Library there's a ████ little Pagoda and ████ like ████ Lotus pads on a pond ready for people to go damn ████ that is nice our bases do not look like no pagodas at our bases huh nope and you get benefits for that I don't know about the benefits but I liked that that was oh do I get benefits for that yeah anybody does yeah people can smell his feet and fix him yeah yeah yeah you're right you're right what's like the most boring job you had to do my most boring job probably his actual job guarding a graveyard is pretty crazy dude that was pretty boring because my shift was also from like two was it the graveyard shift it was actually nice get the hell out of here it was a two to six and you're not really allowed to sleep

7:35 yeah and then they always do like radio like little radio check over and they want to make sure like school I'm always I was like there's somebody here I just lay up against the tombstone I just put it right here he got caught sleeping oh I don't I don't no bueno man I don't know why were you guys guarding the graveyard were they talking to you in Korean on the radio this is a North Carolina now what the ████ not North Korea is it North Korea when they found out you're useless in the Korean military what did they do there's being a man on the phone so it's literally just someone calling to see if the phone works are the lines when you are a lower rank you don't do

8:25 you do Jack you get like dumb jobs like that you get to ████ walk in mud into this random tent and then you just sit there and then you look over into the other room and then his ████ generals like oh they're planning all these things and they're just like hey Eagle One do you read me yeah okay cool see you later bye-bye [Laughter] and you can see it visually yeah it looks fun hey this phone still works by the way anybody you guys are wondering does anyone need a phone if you go over and go into General stand be like hey general just to let you know the phone's still working if you need to use it every hour right do a check let me know if you need any help and someone's checking on YouTube to make sure that you're doing that

9:16 um well it's like uh what is it called check some checks and balances Chinese finger trap comes over and he said he comes over and then we take a note you're expressing your gesture today are so ████ good like Kawaii you know the international son no this new Senpai what happens when you call and you get no reception you go can you hear me oh did I immediately have to report it because we're checking to make sure comms stay open so if a big move is about to go down like so we're real we're uh what's the training exercise is called like it's called a UFL or some ████ and we're trying to um play out scenarios if North Korea attacked that's what we're trying to do so that's the way the comms have to stay open this is North Carolina or North Korea this is North Korea back to North Korea now and then so now if uh I mean not North Korea South Korea whoa

10:11 um Eagle one we got a problem over here that was classified highly by the way ████ yeah I just know it's a different dialect I don't speak yeah so if I if I send communication over and there's nothing on the other side then I immediately have to report it and they have to establish another line of communication that person's probably big trouble because you have to it's pretty much like if General the general can't speak whenever the ████ they want with something big happens then we're in big big trouble yeah so we're just in charge of like okay and then another hour damn yeah and then from that you get medical you get sick you get you get paid you get your school paid for all kinds of ████ I should have went to the military man don't you get zero down loans at low interest rates VA loans is also awesome you don't you get zero

11:01 percent down that's why I hear all these things I'm like you want to sleep on the sidewalk that's your bad dude join the military brother oops all sidewalk [Music]

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