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Reblogged from fuckyeahcracker, Posted by thepoliticalfreakshow.
thepoliticalfreakshow: Georgia Hero Who Became Paralyzed After Saving 4-Year-Old Girl Is Unable To Pay For His Medical Bills A man being hailed as a hero for saving a 4-year-old girl from drowning in a Georgia creek remains in the Redmond Regional Medical Center’s Intensive Care Unit after becoming paralyzed from the waist down during the rescue. Michael Patterson was at Euharlee Creek near Rockmart last Saturday with his 9-year-old son Cole when the two heard Carlisa Jones cry out that her daughter Jevaeh had been pulled underneath the water. Patterson selflessly dove straight down off the dam without a moment’s thought. Unfortunately, “he dove too deep,” his mother Vickie Jones said, and hit his head hard on the creek’s rocky bottom breaking his neck in three places and severing his spine. Amazingly, Patterson still managed to save the little girl’s life. “They don’t know how (he saved her),” Jones said. “The little girl was at the bottom, but they saw something push her up. They got the little girl and they didn’t realize what happened to Michael.” The 43-year-old was found minutes later floating down the creek, with his face in the water. “He did drown,” his mother told The Cedartown Standard. She said he is currently in a medically induced coma and has been on and off life support. Patterson, who just two weeks ago pulled a man out of a burning gasoline tanker, is being called a “real hero” by his doctors. But there is not much else they can do for him, and Jones says her son doesn’t have the health insurance necessary to get better treatment. A carpenter by trade, Patterson had just recently landed a contractor gig, but the job did not provide insurance. “He’s been employed for many years, but when the market fell and everything, he got in the unemployment line because many companies had to cut back,” his mother said. “He worked on his own here and there. He’s a wonderful, hard worker.” Jones, who is also taking care of a husband with Stage IV cancer, says she wants to have Patterson transferred to a private nonprofit spinal cord rehabilitation hospital, and hopes to be able to raise the necessary funds with the Internet’s help. “If anything can be done, they will do it,” Jones said of the doctors at the Shepherd Center. Patterson’s family and friends have started a donation fund in his name, as well as a Facebook page with regular updates on his condition. Expand [photos via Facebook, screengrab via WSBTV]
Reblogged from fashioncitizen, Posted by fuckingawesomegay-deactivated20.
fashioncitizen: endlessknowledge: restlessandcr8ive: americas biggest fear Count me in. This ! Best shirt i’ve seen all decade!
Reblogged from corey4000, Posted by onlylolgifs. Filed under: #Scare #fat #run #green #suitcase #meanie #haha #lulz
corey4000: They got folks shook!!! Poor lady, couldn’t she run any faster than that? Lol i mean cmon it’s not like your life is (perceived) to be in danger or anything.
Reblogged from randomactsofchaos, Posted by raw-r-evolution.
raw-r-evolution: The poor die FIRST by ~Latuff2
Reblogged from fuckyeahcracker, Posted by thepeoplesrecord.
setfabulazerstomaximumcaptain: thepeoplesrecord: Prison Labor Exposed: From Starbucks to Microsoft - A sampling of what US prisoners make & for whomMay 21, 2013 Tens of thousands of US inmates are paid from pennies to minimum wage—minus fines and victim compensation—for everything from grunt work to firefighting to specialized labor. The breaded chicken patty your child bites into at school may have been made by a worker earning twenty cents an hour, not in a faraway country, but by a member of an invisible American workforce: prisoners. At the UnionCorrectional Facility, a maximum security prison in Florida, inmates from a nearby lower-security prison manufacture tons of processed beef, chicken and pork for Prison Rehabilitative Industries and Diversified Enterprises (PRIDE), a privately held non-profit corporation that operates the state’s forty-one work programs. In addition to processed food, PRIDE’s website reveals an array of products for sale through contracts with private companies, from eyeglasses to office furniture, to be shipped from a distribution center in Florida to businesses across the US. PRIDE boasts that its work programs are “designed to provide vocational training, to improve prison security, to reduce the cost of state government, and to promote the rehabilitation of the state inmates.” And Each month, California inmates process more than 680,000 pounds of beef, 400,000 pounds of chicken products, 450,000 gallons of milk, 280,000 loaves of bread, and 2.9 million eggs (from 160,000 inmate-raised hens).Starbucks subcontractor Signature Packaging Solutions has hired Washington prisoners to package holiday coffees (as well as Nintendo Game Boys). Confronted by a reporter in 2001, a Starbucks rep called the setup “entirely consistent with our mission statement.” Texas inmates produce brooms and brushes, bedding and mattresses, toilets, sinks, showers, and bullwhips. In Texas, prisoners make officers’ duty belts, handcuff cases, and prison-cell accessories. California convicts make gun containers, creepers (to peek under vehicles), and human-silhouette targets. A stitch in time: California inmates sew their own garb. In the 1990s, subcontractor Third Generation hired 35 female South Carolina inmates to sew lingerie and leisure wear for Victoria’s Secret and JCPenney. In 1997, a California prison put two men in solitary for telling journalists they were ordered to replace “Made in Honduras” labels on garments with “Made in the usa.” Open wide: At California’s prison dental laboratory, inmates produce a complete prosthesis selection, including custom trays, try-ins, bite blocks, and dentures. Constructive criticism: Prisoners in for burglary, battery, drug and gun charges, and escape helped build a Wal-Mart distribution center in Wisconsin in 2005, until community uproar halted the program. (Company policy says, “Forced or prison labor will not be tolerated by Wal-Mart.”) On call: Its inmate call centers are the “best kept secret in outsourcing,” Unicor boasts. In 1994, a contractor for gop congressional hopeful Jack Metcalf hired Washington state prisoners to call and remind voters he was pro-death penalty. Metcalf, who prevailed, said he never knew. Federal Prison Industries, a.k.a. Unicor, says that in addition to soldiers’ uniforms, bedding, shoes, helmets, and flak vests, inmates have “produced missile cables (including those used on the Patriot missiles during the Gulf War)” and “wiring harnesses for jets and tanks.” In 1997, according to Prison Legal News, Boeing subcontractor MicroJet had prisoners cutting airplane components, paying $7 an hour for work that paid union wages of $30 on the outside. Full article AND THIS IS WHY THE WAR ON DRUGS AND REAGAN CAN FUCKING BURN FOREVER FOR FUCKING EVER  So what you mean is Legal slavery? All those black kids rotting away on trumped up charges just so a motherfucker can make a dollar!
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