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Well, how rich is he? This story is incomplete without that little tidbit.
If you were ever homeless you would realize that the amount does'nt matter. Absolutly any type of help is apreciated when your on the street or living in your car. Most homeless people had no choice to live this way. I myself was homeless for a long pierod of time. I still don't have much but share or help others as much as I can. I thank God and the family that I do have for digging me out of the hole of depression that I was in after my wife passed away. Please do not ever jump to conclusions about people before understanding them, Listen and you might find the most beutifull person you've ever met.Have a blessed day.
The attorney for the family didn't disclose the amount, but enough to inherit new friends. He was probably happy with his shopping cart--now this @!$%# to deal with.
I could've swore I gave this bum a five dollars once.....
I hope you did. You are a good person.
who knows what he's been through....
OGDEN RESIDENTS DIE IN WYOMING ROLLOVER
Published: Saturday, July 14, 1990 12:00 a.m. MDT
Two women and one man from Ogden were killed in a one-car rollover on I-80 west of here when the driver drifted off the road and overcorrected, according to the Wyoming Highway Patrol.
The driver, Max, Melitzer, 44, also of Ogden, was the only survivor of the Tuesday afternoon crash. He was in stable condition at Sweetwater County Memorial Hospital earlier this week when he was transferred to another hospital, which the nursing supervisor refused to name.
Melitzer's wife, Janice Melitzer, 44, also died in the crash, and Cindy Lee Jones , 36, died on the way to the hospital. The fourth pasenger, Glen Chrietzderg, 36, died Wednesday morning at the University of Utah Hospital, according to the patrol.
OGDEN RESIDENTS DIE IN WYOMING ROLLOVER
Published: Saturday, July 14, 1990 12:00 a.m. MDT
Two women and one man from Ogden were killed in a one-car rollover on I-80 west of here when the driver drifted off the road and overcorrected, according to the Wyoming Highway Patrol.
The driver, Max, Melitzer, 44, also of Ogden, was the only survivor of the Tuesday afternoon crash. He was in stable condition at Sweetwater County Memorial Hospital earlier this week when he was transferred to another hospital, which the nursing supervisor refused to name.
Melitzer's wife, Janice Melitzer, 44, also died in the crash, and Cindy Lee Jones , 36, died on the way to the hospital. The fourth pasenger, Glen Chrietzderg, 36, died Wednesday morning at the University of Utah Hospital, according to the patrol.
I guess the only question I have is why his family allowed him to live on the streets all this time. Why did it take a family member dieing and leaving him money for the family to decide to locate him and help get him off the street. Maybe he was left the money because he was the only one of the potential heirs who was not a selfish money grubber and now the remaining family is trying to make nice in the hopes that he will share the wealth with them. Who knows the real story, but it is a little odd that the family waited until now to seek him out.
Sorry to ruin it, but "hisself" isn't a word. It would be himself, as it's a reflexive pronoun.
As defined on UrbanDictionary....
hisself moron toothless hills
1.
hisself
Used in place of the word "himself" by non-educated, moronic, toothless wonders from the "hills" or the "hood". Usually heard in overabundance at NASCAR events.
Yup! He nearly pissed hisself, he was laughing so hard, yuk, yuk, yuk,..,
hisself non-educated moron toothless nascar hills hood
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2.
hisself
Southern Colloquialism: Contraction of two separate words, him and self.
Ewald done got hisself pinned under tha tractor agin, Ma.
LMFAO!!! Thanks Keith, I needed that!! lol!
That's total BS! There are plenty of homeless people with no mental issues that would rather just pan handle all day. I understand people with mental issues being homeless but there's no excuse for a lot of them.
How do you know what the circumstances are with homeless people on the streets, Rebootit? Do you work with homeless people to understand their situations? Somehow I doubt it. Facts, please.
i agree with RebootIt. most people are on the streets BECAUSE they have mental health issues. yeah, give "a significant amount of money" to someone who is a total nutcase and see what he does with it. i'm REALLY SURE (sarcasm) that he's going to use it to get himself mental health help.
Lose your job, aka no income. Then lose the place you live. Some people are not situated within a house. The current economy definately does not help situations. Miss rent and your gone. It is quite tough once in that situation. People end up on the street for many other reasons. Drugs and gambling habits are great examples here in vegas. There are services that can help. But many of them are limited to daily food or temporary shelter. The very FIRST things ALL homeless think about is where they are getting their next meal or where they might be able to sleep without being harassed by the police.
There are those that do try. Depending on demographic natures you may never see or notice them.
No excuse for being homeless? Wake the !@#$ up!
It's not about excuses, Rebootlt its about survival.
Let me ask you, whats the farthest distance you've ever walked? Alot of homeless walk for miles each day.
Because homelessness is so obvious now (in the past because the numbers were less than now, they were not that visible), many employed people reach out to them, but reality is, that a lot of them have been out of functioning society so long, they've decided they like their life as it is now. Many ARE mentally ill, and over the years have been rejected by family members. Some have addiction problems and have been rejected by family members. It's sorta like people who are released from prison, but they can't make it in the free world, so they break the law purposely because they understand how to cope in prison. They lose their self-esteem and are damaged by homelessness and they know how to live in that environment. Strange but true.
I kind of agree with Rebootit on this one and I speak from personal experience. I spent several years homeless and it was a choice. I and most of the people who were in the same situation basically had the same problem. Drugs and or alcohol addiction. No one ever held a gun to my head and told me to do drugs so that means it was a choice.
Granted there are many people out there who suffer from mental illness. I would say how ever the vast majority are those people use and abuse.
The very large majority of people living on the streets are mentally ill. Your dear President Reagan and the republican party closed down mental institutions. An other great idea of the republican religious hypocrits, throwing the most vulnerable among us, out on the streets.
America the great was gone with Reagan. For millions america has become a true nightmare.
Vote all republicans, OUT !
For your info, dummies, people that uses drugs and alchool are mentally ill... depression is a mental disease !
Do you have a link for that br11weluvu?
I can totally see how something like that would result in this man's current position.
And it's hard for family sometimes, clearly they cared enough to find him now, and they were seemingly in contact with him sporadically before, but if he's not deemed dangerous they can't really force him to accept treatment or assistance.
That was pretty funny redneck slamming humor. But I have to wonder why you pompous non-Southerners share such disdain and ignorance for the South in general at claims of being uneducated/stupid. Ignorance and poor education crosses all parts of this nation from north to south to west.
This, of course, does not even factor into another lifestyle nobody seems to want to bring up: inner city gangsta mentality and such wonders like pants being dragged down to the knees as being "hip" and studying in schools as being "too white." But by all means, make fun of NASCAR (which has tracks around the nation the last time I checked), rednecks, and the South. They are obviously much easier targets for you emotion-driven liberals to challenge.
There are plenty of successful people who drink and use drugs. It's not an excuse.
great story,now what about the other thousands that are homeless in the richest
country in the world.
That ship sailed a long time ago we are not the richest country. Haven't been for years.
I have a dear dear very close family member that is homeless. She is severely mentally ill. She believes living in a house is a government conspiracy. She believes she will be poisoned if she showers. We have talked to lawyers, social workers---we have begged pleaded for her to come in off the streets and live with us. There is absolutely nothing we can do. I hope for the sake of the money, family and this man's mental health a judge gives him a guardian!!!!!
In most states it is impossible to get a person that is mentally ill under the care of a family member or the state. The mentally ill have to be harmful to themselves or to others before anything can be done. In our country our mentally ill do not have to take their mediation, don't have to be taken care of and can live on the streets. It requires a psychiatric diagnosis and to be harmful to oneself or others to get placed under the care of a loved one, a psychiatric hospital or the state. Unfortunate, but true. I do hope this poor man does not fall between the cracks, but it is very possible that he will.
Homeless, has now become a meaningless word. It USED to mean that because of a natural, or social disaster, a normally active member of society no longer has a home.
Many other words have also become meaningless, and convey nothing: challenged, special needs, dependent, at risk, hyper-active, etc.
@Bearwulf
I'm sorry, but you are wrong. Anyone can end up homeless, but if your not physically challenged or have a mental issue (drug addiction counts under mental issue) you won't stay homeless for the amount of time the article claims he has been.
It doesn't require that you have a severe mental illness to remain homeless, something as simple as moderate depression is enough to prevent you from getting the assistance you need to get off the street. Any issue that is enough to prevent you from finding or keeping a minimum wage job is all it takes to make finding a way out of homelessness very difficult.
We have numerous government and private programs that can and will get you off the street and help you find a job, but there is nothing that forces someone who is not dangerous to take advantage of any of the help offered. This is a problem that we as a nation have and have yet to solve, and people walking the streets homeless won't end until the solution is found.
Spike, reread Lisa's response (2.3). Back in the 70's, I was on staff at a center for handicapped people (mentally challenged and mentally ill). The laws at that time changed as many states started releasing people in the psychiatric hospitals. Many of them had no idea how to take care of themselves, such as taking their medications, let alone refilling the prescriptions. They were supposed to have counsellors to visit on a regular basis. Many did not, especially after they stopped taking their meds or the states reduced the number of staff to handle them. They cannot be put back unless they are a proven threat to themselves or others. Even then, many judges are reluctant to put them back in the hospitals and they can check themselves out anytime they want.
Mercury,
I was only pointing out that "homeless" has no meaning, or has so many implied/inferred meanings that it is useless. Just like "hyper-active---does it mean that a kid is a little more active than most kids, or does it mean a kid that often goes into destructive and violent rages for no discernible reason?
I do not see this as a problem, If there are programs available and this individual chooses not to take advantage of them then that is their business, They chose the freedom to live as they want, Who are we as a society to tell them that they must conform to our standards, Who are we to force them, If they pose a danger to others then yes we as a society must be responsible for them but if they pose no danger to others even if they do pose a threat to their own wellbeing as long as they understand that threat they must remain free to live as they please. Everyday people engage in activities that pose a threat to their well being but we see it as sport or recreation and think this is fine. This is the problem with our evolving society, We feel it is perfectly alright for someone to go off and climb some far away mountain range or for some 15 year old girl to solo pilot her yacht around the world yet we force people under penalty to wear seatbelts or motorcycle helmets.
Sometimes I think some homeless people have the right idea, The ultimate in freedom
Actually Ernie, we still are the richest country. It won't be that way for long, however, China is expected to surpass us and go WAY forward in the 2030s. We'll be neck-and-neck with India in the 2040s, and they'll surpass us soon after too. I suggest you read my article about BRICs countries on the 'vine. Here's a link:
http://redwhiteandblue15.newsvine.com/_news/2011/06/12/6843240-our-new-allies
Come on now, wasn't that Nick Nolte's mug shot???
I'm not sure how the "richest country" comment has any thing to do with families not taking the responsibility to take care of their own. Why when someone in a family is born mentally retarded or becomes mentally ill during their tenure on this planet do we pass this on to the government? If you have a mentally ill person in your family.....go help them, take care of them and YES even if they don't want your help. Stop looking the other way. Grow up and take responsibility. They're your family.
His family will make it their responsibility...now that he's rich. I need more information, but from what I've read none of this man's family even gave 2 cents until he became his brother's beneficiary. I hope he has someone who sincerely looks out for him IF needed, be it a family member, or the man from the mission who has known him so long as a homeless man. It'd be nice too for who ever is entrusted with the money to throw a little goodwill toward the missions this man frequented.
If they're not my kids they're not my problem. Just because they are blood related that doesn't mean anything. Not everyone grew up in a Brady bunch environment.
By the look of his photo, I would say he is "Filthy Rich"!
The only thing 'filthy' about this story is why the hell didn't his brother/family hunt him down and take care of him while his brother was still alive?
Did you read the story? The family has tried to contact him, left a number, and he doesn't choose to respond for whatever reason. It is very difficult if not impossible to help someone in this country if they do not want to be helped. Perhaps he doesn't see himself as needing help. You can't always have people do what you want them to do. At this point at least, there are still choices. If he is not competent to make that decision, as it says above, unless they are a harm to themself, nobody can force them to do anything. Even if they have tried to harm themselves, they are often released. I know, I've been with a person who struggled. Many tried to help. In the end it just wasn't possible.
Indeed. It's possible they've tried to give him money in the past as well, and he wouldn't take or use it. Maybe they feel the death of his brother will have some impact. The fact that they even bothered to find him speaks volumes, he could have easily remained "lost" and someone else would have gotten his share of the inheritance.
I hope someone follows up on this, would love to see what he does.
Id rather not know oltmar . Most struggling with mental issues self medicate for years or decades . If not carefully monitored , this windfall could easily be a death sentence . I hope the very best for him but addiction dosent care who you are or what your situation is . It just wants you dead .
Who said he was addicted to anything? Why is it that if you are homeless you're an addict? It said he has emotional problems. Tell me how that equates to addiction?
Perhaps you need to read it again lora . the word " Most " may be something you missed . I use the word " most " just to keep the hawks happy . After working around the homeless and the addicted for over 30 years I can safely say I may have met 3 that were struggling with mental issues and were clean .
No it isn't a incomplete article.. it was enough money to warrant hiring someone to find him... Not to mention the fact that the family wishes to remain semi anonymous from the rest of the money grubbing, hand out world...
What about the rest of the homeless? This article does not pertain to them...
By golly, it's sure nice to hear something positive about a law firm.
That lucky P.O.S.
He can buy a lot of Thunder-Bird wine with the $$$ he's getting!
What a mean spirited comment!
He can also do a lot of good with that money. I'd prefer to give him the benefit of the doubt.
How insensitive!
With Utah's strict alchohol laws I wonder if you can even get Tbird? Their beer is all 3.2 so I don't know if they sell fortified wines.
@ Wants to know..nice reply..I wonder if others took it the way we did..spirits comment reply.
No doubt he'll be spirited alright...LMAO
Nothing wrong being a rich WINO..plenty out there!
He's no luckier than anyone else who receives an inheritance John, now is he? I mean... if we were a meritocracy, inheritance would be eliminated. Money would be passed to the most deserving, and this goes for anyone either homeless or hopelessly sheltered ultra upper class.
So yes.. your comment served only to illuminate your own lack of empathy. See... a mental issue COULD place you on the street just the same. But, from the sound of it... you only focus on how you CAN'T get the same inheritance. See the whole picture now.
....Must be a democrat...
And you, Janet, must be a really disgusting person.
I'm a dictionary definition (not blanket political system) liberal, if that's what you mean.
And that's why liberal Democrats love the death tax so much. It doesn't completely eliminate inheritance rights, but it sure taxes the hell out of them. Only in the world of liberalism is it fair to steal from families and give to other families who didn't have as much.
We always see the homeless as different from the rest of us...but really any one of us could end up in that position, particularly with the failure of the mental health systems in this country!
You can thank President Regan for dismantling the mental health system. He closed all the public mental health institutions. Now Republicans want to shut off the rest of health care to poor Americans. Honestly Republicans are killing Americans and against all of our core beliefs, like help your fellow man. They claim to be religious yet don't follow any religious beliefs or doctrines when it comes to actual behavior and actions.
The gov't is broke. How about YOU financing mental health with YOUR money. Can't spend money that you don't have. Is that you Obama? Print some more money!
"but really any one of us could end up in that position, particularly with the failure of the mental health systems in this country!"
I fail to see how the mental health systems in this country could put someone in a position to become homeless. Are you jumping on the band wagon of those that hate the health care system?Are you part of the crowd that yells and screams about what you hear everyone else yelling and screaming about? Without substance your comment has as much weight as a balloon animal.
Borrowing from China...& YOUR & MINE tax dollars @ work...
Mopman, read PaulRyan's entry. The mental health system was dismantled many years ago and funding for the counsellors to help the people on the street with their meds was cut. Especially back then, most of the homeless were former psychiatric patients who did not know how to take care of themselves. Even now, many of the homeless have mental health issues, such as clinical depression. If you unable to work, you lose your job, then your house and end up on the streets.
As simple as distorting your credit will do the trick. Then everything is down the hill from there. Your employer will fire you for not keeping a good credit and no room to fight it back. A computer guru siting in India can put collection lists on your credit that will bury you alive even if you are 1 month old child.
What's wrong with you, Wants To Know? Where's your lack of compassion? Where's your vindictiveness? Where's your sport of sadistic taunting? Aren't you a good American? Okay, bad joke.
You're absolutely right, WTK. All it takes is a few hard blows at the wrong moment to end up deeply depressed, which can and will, at some point, strike the vast majority of EVERYONE at some moment in his/her life. Then if you have a poor or non-existent support system: lack of and/or callous family and acquaintances (you can't call unkind people friends), which is sadly, too many out there. Forget the community. In America it's a crime to be in bad condition emotionally and/or mentally.
America is STILL number 1 in many things:
1) Non-existent mental health facilities. (The bulk of the care available is often horrific and does more damage than good).
2) The number 1 nation in jailing its mentally ill and charging them with serious felonies. Even third world places Americans like to pretend they're so superior to have more kindness and compassion. No other country has so many new draconian laws including "insane but guilty" and jails known mentally ill and legally incompetent with sociopathic prisoners and prison systems.
3) The FIRST country in the history of the world to make jails and health care for profiteering and to completely ignore the Hippocratic Oath (to care for the sick and ill and see it as a duty of a civilized community, not only for the financially fortunate).
4) NUMBER ONE in financial reserves (TWICE that of China which has TRIPLED the incomes of 1.3 BILLION people the last ten years). Where is/has our cash gone? War profiteering, corporate profiteering, the top 1% of the population, while lower and middle incomes are radically dropping.
5) We are almost a negative print of China, who have had the fastest meteoric financial rise of the general population in history. Ours is plummeting at a record rate (for the lower/middle incomes) as are the I.Q.s and sanity. If you don't at least complain about the treatment of the mentally ill, you'll have no one to help you when you are sent to prison for your "crimes" of depression and/or other ailments you "deserve" for some lame justification the mean spirited public/community/legal system likes to use.
6) If not ashamed or broken hearted are you at least embarrassed yet to have squandered what could have been the great US but is now mediocre at best, often incompetent and clearly morbidly obese, intentionally ignorant, angry and scapegoat seeking, blaming all others for your personal woes? No? Okay, then let's be number one in that still All American virtue: Unwarranted Confidence. Repeat after me "We're Number 1! We're number 1!"
Very, very sad and embarrassingly pathetic it is. America is in extremely serious need of a BIG dose of humanity. Remember? It's something we actually had not too long ago. It'd be wonderful to actually try to be number 1 in something that's the best feature of civilization instead of war, jails, rage, draconian laws, stupidity, and all the mean, ugly things America has become number one in the last number of years.
Most developed countries provide mental health services to their citizens. We gloat that everyone is on their own. Then are amazed that some folks end up on the streets.
Thank goodness I can rely on my family.
I hope others will remember this story and take care of their own family and friends who are on the streets. Sometimes emotional and mental challenges are too hard to overcome without help. I send out a big "yeah!" to the family of this man, and wish the wole family well.
i have known alot of homeless people that have some sort of income to get a place to stay but rather drink and live in the streets its not what someone gives you its what you do with it once you get it there are alot of people that just like living the way they do money can or cannot change them
Sure... and alcohol addiction is also a mental health diagnosis for a reason.
I didn't. Didn't say I did, either. I was replying to mike's post, which could be construed as most homeless being alcoholics rather than suffering from a mental illness. Merely pointing out that they are classified as the same thing :)
Oopps, best check your spelling. "wole" "whole".
Yes Alan, just as the word "oops" has only one "p"...
The majority of homeless have 1 (or more) of the Big Three. Mental Illness, Drug Addiction, or the legal drug, Alcoholism. He really needs to have an honest friend. Someone to protect him from all the bad folks out there that would love to be his 'friend'. Ya, but not you snidley...
NEA Excec you left out the cost of housing from your list. Here in Boston a one bedroom with nothing included could easy cost someone $1,000.00 a month. If you add in the cost of heat and electricity, that could end up adding another $150.00 to $300.00 to that cost. The cost goes up based on the size of the unit.
Remiss of me not to have put that on the list...I lived on Embankment Rd in the early 70's and a 3rd floor walkup studio was 225/mo then...
If his brother was that rich, why was he on the street to begin with? Was he a lost cause for the family, or did he just disappear on them? Still, that is one less poor homeless guy which is always good to hear.
You missed the part where they said he had a lot of emotional issues. Maybe he has an anti-social disorder and he wasn't close to the brother. Does that mean the brother loved him less? No.
Obviously he wasn't a "lost cause" for the family as they went out of their way to locate and meet up with him.
I have a brother who could be considered a lost cause - due to years of drug addiction. Our family has tried everything to help, but there are no laws, unfortunately, to help a family care for someone who is incapable of making sound choices. I wish there were a way for a person to be declared incompetent, even if they are not a danger, and have family member appointed to legally take over another person's responsibilities. It would've saved my mother tons of money and heartache if we could've seized my brother's finances - taken any income he gets, pay his bills and give him a small allowance for food on rather that let him waste his entire savings on drugs. There is currently no legal way to save a person from himself if he's of no mind to be helped, but drains everyone around him.
I wish this guy well and hope he is of sound enough mind to use his money wisely.
It is not easy dealing with the mentally ill. The law that is supposed to "protect" them makes it very difficult for families to intervene. Obviously, this family cared enough to go find this troubled man. Hopefully, they will be able to protect him from himself!
"Freedom's just another word for 'nothing left to lose'..."
I hope the inheritance improves his life, and that he does well.
Bobby McGhee would have liked that chunk of change too!
Maybe he can split the $ with Bobby McGhee!
"Freedom's just another word for 'nothing left to lose'..."
That's one of the stupidest quotes I've read. A free country has everything to lose...
Why did the family wait untill the brother died to help? There may be a good reason, but it seems like he should have been helped years earlier. At least he will be now.
The article did state that the family and him had contact via mail. The family also gave him a phone number to call which he refused to use. My view on this is that he was were he wanted to be. At least he and his family had mail correspondence.
Best post I have read this week!!! Hardship can be just around the corner for any of us. Yes, this guy might have put himself in the homeless world, but we have no way of knowing that. I admit that I would be homeless myself without the help of others. It is good to read a compassionate post. Congratulations to this man!
Finally some good news. I wish him the best and hope he can get some help to straighten out his life.
What a nice story for a change.
God Bless him and I hope he's able to turn his life around.
Sorry, but I'm skeptical on this one. If one of my brothers was homeless he and his family would be living with me. They would not be be on the street.
It appears that the family did try to contact the homeless man over a long period of time, before his brother died, but Max never called the number they provided.
Umm -- I think the family did try very hard -- long before the brother died -- to get him to respond. He apparently chose to avoid contact.
YES, good for his family. I hope he does well. With mental illness, it is usual that alcohol or other drugs play a part in a persons life, called self medicating. Hopefully he will get the mental help he needs. Many people place a stigma on those who are homeless, when in fact most have a mental illness and families may not have the resourses to care for them or get tired of the negative behaviors mental illnesses present. So happy to see that the family wants to help him, GOOD FOR THEM.
You know, you can just never tell who a person is but the one thing that people should never lose thought of is that; that we are ALL created in Gods image, a significant event in each one of us has cause us to be where we are today, I for one am fortunate that my eyes were opened
Wants to Knows-True so true we over look mental health, just look at the news. Lots of folk go without intervention then it's too late. It will get worst. Glad for this guy money will help him live a better life I hope.
#at=312 and another
Great for this man - but really - Utah could care less if a man is homeless or not. They will force him to pay for child support if he happens to be married to a woman who has multiple affairs. They pat her on the back while they make sure men are homeless while paying for other men's children. When you try to get DNA tests done - they tell you to "shut up and let the Federal Government pay for these kids, who are you hurting".....and yet they are wonderful people one day a week... Congrats to the man - but just because he was in Utah - and he was homeless...trust me, they could care a hill of crap less if you are homeless or not...
Not just Utah. Throughout this country the homeless are screwed by the rest of us. This is one of the things that bothers me about us. We will give millions to Haiti because Clooney ask us to even though they wont see a dime but we do nothing to help our own. Just go to the homeless shelter in your area and you will see people just like you who just had their own hurricane, earthquake or tsunami. We screw them and help out somewhere else in the world. Before you ask or comment, hell yes I give as much as I can give.
Utah will force a man to pay for child support to a woman who has multiple affairs? Ummmmm, since when did a woman's infidelity have anything to do with a man supporting HIS children? I can see withholding alimony, but child support is his responsibility regardless.
The state DOES encourage DNA testing and requires it when there is a question on paternity. I do admit Utah leans towards women when it comes to custody issues and such, but I've not seen a single case of the state forcing a man to pay for another man's children, or to "shut up and let the Federal Government pay for these kids..." Utah is filled with caring, compassionate people and some that aren't, just like every other state. I'm sorry you (or someone you know) have obviously been dealt what you perceive as a rough blow.
As for finding this man, what an awesome story! I do hope he will be able to better his life and obtain the mental support and services he obviously so desperately needs.
Brotherly Love.
"He ain't heavy: He's my brother."
Wonderful story. Wonderful family. Best of luck to this guy.
The good news is that this man has suddenly become 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000% more attractive to women. He should have no problem landing a date now.
Sad commentary about women but true. Hope my wife doesnt read this or I might become homeless.
Someone posted a news article that Max was the driver in a fatal crash in 1990 that killed his wife and several others. That accident could have started his downward spiral, and he's probably not exactly looking for a date ...
Actually "Bearwulf" that isn't always the way it is..not all women are enthralled by a man who is well off..I am more interested in the whole person and not by what's in his wallet.
Well I guess the unattractive women wouldn't be interested because they know they would have 0 chance when all the very attractive women are interested also. Sometimes they have to just settle on the person as a whole instead.
Well Kyleortonsarm even for attractive women money is not the end all.
Cant yall read? It said the family was intouch with him and left a number he could call, but he never did.
Ditto Robert's comments. The family did contact him, but he never called them back ...
It they were in touch with him before, that means no one really found him. They knew where he was all this time. They had correspondence with him prior.
The family found out about his inheritance and all of a sudden they are concerned for him. They probabley want to become his guardian and control his money now.
"Yes, please call me " We the family want to take care of you. just let us be your guardian"
"The family just wants to make sure he's set up and he's taken care of."
Yeah, right. Why all of a sudden now. They want him to be taken care of with someone else's money. They didn't seem to offer him much help all these years that he has lived in the same city. They knew where he was all this time. The family just didn't want to spend any of their money on him.
He was worth their time, but now that he has money they can grab off him, well it changes everything. Friend.