Daniel Simonton's Random Act Of Kindness: Seattle Man Mailing $5 Bills To Strangers

Komo News:

SEATTLE -- Daniel Simonton has been sending $5 bills to strangers in the mail.

And in return, he wants nothing.

"Nothing to redeem. Don't have to take it anywhere; just put it in your pocket and go. Cash is honest," he said.

Read the whole story: Komo News

Comments

[fivedollarguy]

03:20 AM on 02/23/2011

I don't judge people on their politics as I'm pretty apolitical altogether myself. I generally think all sides are full of sith. I do have a relative whose a card-carrying tea partier, pro-life zealot, who listens to Limbaugh on a daily basis, and idolizes Ronald Reagan. Would it surprise anyone here that he also runs a homeless shelter? Probably.

I know philanderous, alcoholic, and cocaine-addicted liberals who've gotten insanely rich from the stock market, shameless opportunism in real estate, and done squat for anyone but themselves and conservatives who donate hundreds or even thousands to African charities and run donation drives for PAWS and local food banks.

There's good and bad on all sides.

[fivedollarguy]

03:37 AM on 02/23/2011

Err meant that as a response to "Rush 2112"

[Roci]

07:20 AM on 12/30/2010

Sometimes I'm inclined to think there might be a glimmer of hope for Mankind after all.

[olddognewtrick]

07:56 PM on 12/29/2010

A man started doing this in Oakland and was heldup at gunpoint and had his car jacked..

[Bflogal99]

02:09 PM on 12/29/2010

My father told me that he placed $50 and a card in an envelope, drove to Walmart and handed it to a family with two young kids and a battered-looking car. He just said, "I think you dropped this," and drove away. I totally love my dad.

[Jennifer Hill]

01:03 PM on 12/29/2010

Thanks Daniel. This is very cool. Its especially important to remember there are lots of poor and disenfranchised people who don't have anyone to turn to for even as little as $5. Around 2000 a friend of mine came back from a mentoring meeting with some poor women, she was devastated because when she asked if they each had a friend or someone that they could go to for $5 none of them did. She was devastated and that is why many of us continue to advocate on behalf of the poor. It is both alienating and demoralizing to be that poor, nobody deserves that. We are better than that, we must be better than that.

[Rush 2112]

04:39 PM on 12/28/2010

I'd do something like that but I'm afraid the money would end up going to a republican.