In case you haven't seen. Homeless Lotto Winner prank.

[visualizeperfection]

malt liquor, white women and crack rock.

1000 well spent.

[Wolfox]

Should teach him how to fish rather than give him a fish 

[Papper]

The ultimate act of kindness would be to put this "gentleman" out of his misery.

Hahahaha

[BigCyp]

Adam's right on this one,

at over 9 million views, without any exra revenue from sponsors or other individual agreements made with his channel, he's made around £16K already from this video...

'Act of kindness' would be simply to give the guy $1000 and keep your camera in your pocket.

[Twaddle]

This guy?

http://www.accesshollywood.com/golden-voice-ted-williams-where-is-he-now_article_84326

[bigmc]

Adam's right on this one,

at over 9 million views, without any exra revenue from sponsors or other individual agreements made with his channel, he's made around £16K already from this video...

'Act of kindness' would be simply to give the guy $1000 and keep your camera in your pocket.

i can see this argument

however the homeless guy went from nothing to 1000 bucks

and was genuinely touched

the fact he offered to give some of it back shows the nicer side of human nature

this one is a win, win for me

in an ideal world the guy who made the video would donate the revenue generated to charity

[Irongrip400]

I gave a homeless guy a beer the other day when I left the grocery store.

[Twaddle]

The real kicker is when 4chan finds out the guys not homeless, and they were all in it for the money.  Store owner, fake homeless guy, the youtube channel owner.  You want to get rich, tug on peoples emotions.  The three of them are probably laughing all the way to the bank right now.   

[BigCyp]

i can see this argument

however the homeless guy went from nothing to 1000 bucks

and was genuinely touched

the fact he offered to give some of it back shows the nicer side of human nature

this one is a win, win for me

in an ideal world the guy who made the video would donate the revenue generated to charity

Yes from that angle, it's a great vid. Especially when the guy wants to share some back etc very touching

But you can't help but be cynical about these kids on youtube, they know exactly what they're doing and there is a reason why they can afford to roam around all day playing 'pranks' 

[Papper]

I want to give a homeless guy a liquor bottle with strychnine in it and say to him, if you can promise me to not drink even one little sip of this poison by tomorrow I'll come back and give you 100 dollars.

[liberty]

The 'prankster' set up a web site to help the homeless guy out and in less than a day already had 6,000 bucks donated by strangers.

[Irongrip400]

I want to give a homeless guy a liquor bottle with strychnine in it and say to him, if you can promise me to not drink even one little sip of this poison by tomorrow I'll come back and give you 100 dollars.

 

[BigCyp]

The 'prankster' set up a web site to help the homeless guy out and in less than a day already had 6,000 bucks donated by strangers.

What a fucking waste, I could have made 6000 frugal bodybuilding meals with that

[Tito24]

pretty cool. thats another way of dealing with bums like the guys from bum fights did.

although the video maker makes money over his back he was really emotional by the bums reaction

[Big Willy]

Should teach him how to fish rather than give him a fish 

Why then are you taking the food and drink and oxygen and clothing we give you dipshit?

[Big Willy]

The worse thing you can do to a homeless man is give him money.

Buy him food.  

Problem is he will 9 times out of 10 get mad if you offer to buy him food instead of give him money.

He'll get mad because you're being a supercilious, superior little snotty shit.