Man Pulls $15K Donation after Awkward Mix Up #Shorts
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A guy named Michael who moved into a new apartment in San Francisco last year, where he meets his neighbor, a Hindu priest named Jeff. And Jeff tells Michael about a relief organization he volunteers for that provides food, clothing and other supplies to poor people in Bangladesh. And he gives 150 dollars to Jeff’s GoFundMe, but shortly afterward his credit card company flags a suspiciously large payment of 15,000 dollars. Right, it was just a typo, so he frantically calls GoFundMe and they promise him a refund. But it would take three to seven business days, and until then, his absurdly large donation would remain at the top of the fundraising page. So he’s like, I gotta call Jeff and explain, but before he can do that, the Facebook messages start pouring in. Right, he’s got the charity’s program manager in Bangladesh just floored at his generosity, thanking him profusely. Also sending him picture after picture, literally hundreds of them, of poor, hungry children thanking him by name, literally holding signs reading “Michael.” Right, they’d never gotten a donation this big before, and they can hardly believe his kindness. So of course, Michael’s back in front of his computer in San Francisco just feeling awful about the news he’s gotta break. So once the refund goes through, and all that money gets snatched away from the Bangladeshis, he ups his original donation to 1,500 dollars instead. But after he tells the story on Reddit, it goes viral, and in the span of a few weeks people donate more than 120,000 dollars to the GoFundMe.
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