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They took his iPhone 3GS (which from what I understand did not have any wipe/protection engaged on it) and all of his cash travel money.
At this moment, a couple hours later, he's asleep in a Ramada in Indiana. The police were below zero help: "If you didn't get a photo there's really nothing we can do", he wasn't even encouraged to file a police report after seeking out a squad car.
I don't believe they took his cards, but the money he has is carefully balanced to make it through the expenses of moving (just his car full of things, to get here and find work while staying in my spare room) and the next week or two of expected expenses. He didn't even have money to offer for food while he's here until his feet get on the ground, and now he has less.
He's a five-year veteran who served two separate tours in Afghanistan, recently married, handicapped by injury in the line of duty, and out recently enough to still be struggling with the VA to get some sort of consideration or compensation.
This will destroy him if he doesn't get help. I have absolutely no resources of my own, my personal cellphone has been in default since January and my CC defaulted in February, but I swore I'd do everything in my power.
My power has always been people. I'm an organizer, a leader, a mediator and even sometimes an icon, able to rally anyone I find myself with to great things. So, I go to you, those I find alongside me, just as I'm at your side.
The people I find at my shoulder, for some reason, always been part of the highest caliber of souls. Additionally, through circles of friends come and gone, other hobbies past and present, and all manner of calamity, there has been the constant of Battletech for the last decade or more keeping my lasers warm. Despite my leering personal poverty and disability, I've always been told I 'pay my way' with kindness and warmth and help, volunteering and offering my time everywhere I can, giving of myself partially because I have absolutely nothing else to give, but mostly because I don't know any other way to live.
Please don't misunderstand that I'd never do something as crass as plea in public if there were anything else, but here I am.
Help me help this man. I don't even know where to start.
Edited by Niko Snow, 09 April 2013 - 01:01 PM.
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