However, a police officer soon stepped in to help.
The Rock Star Pizza driver, Connor Stephanoff, walked half a mile to ensure his order was delivered.
Concerned for his safety, the officer urged him to move to the sidewalk.
Stephanoff explained that he was braving the snow to complete a $40 pizza delivery.
The definition of “The American Dream” is forever changing.
That was pretty much it.
“The American Dream” was simply not to die.
So America declared war on the British.
From there, a more modern American dream took shape.
Or if you were a woman, the dream was to seduce a man capable of that.
Nowadays, “The American Dream” takes on several different forms.
Women can achieve things on their own.
People no longer feel obligated to start families.
Nobody is satisfied with just “living comfortably”.
The goal is unlimited wealth.
Basically the American Dream is Dave Portnoy.
If you play your cards right, someone might even sell your business back to you for $1.
But there’s an even better version of The American Dream than Dave Portnoy’s version.
Or at least fast forward through some of it.
Did you get a good tip?
Two dollars, Stephanoff replied, looking at the receipt again before clarifying, Well, $2.15.Two dollars?
the officer exclaimed, taken aback.
Look at this manhe walked through hell and high water to deliver a pizza.
This young man did not allow this to discourage him.
Remarkably, the fundraiser has surpassed $25,000 at the time of writing.
Obviously $25,000 isn’t setting this pizza delivery guy up for life.
I’m just using Connor Stephanoff of Rock Star Pizza as a jumping off point.
Connor caught the perfect storm of events to hit a nice little lottery ticket.
If we’re being honest, he didn’t do anything particularly special.
He walked 5 minutes through the snow with a pizza and got stiffed on a tip.
As far as pizza delivery man horror stories go, that’s like a 2 out of 10.
But he was caught on video.
The fact that it was a police officer who posted the video added credibility.
He got the “wealthy neighborhood” label attached to the video.
He’s delivering pizza in Brownsburg, Indiana - a nice little suburb of Indianapolis.
The people living there aren’t Scrooge McDucking into pools full of gold coins.
But it doesn’t matter.
He caught a wave and made a quick $25k.
He deserves it as much as any working class kid.
you might’t be mad at the internet coming together to help a guy out.
It’s nice when good things happen to people.
For Connor, his internet crowd-funding come-up happened organically.
He didn’t even have to create the GoFundMe himself.
But there are other ways to go about it.
GoFundMe is big business.
People make serious money via crowd-funding.
Some come about it honestly.
Others do so by blatantly lying.
And some find a nice little gray area.
Hospital Bills
GoFundMe is the backbone of the American healthcare system.
Nobody agrees on how to fix it, but we know what we have right now kinda sucks.
You initiate the risk of murdering your child.
You could go to prison for life if caught.
But you have to spend money to make money.
People won’t only want your baby to survive.
They’ll want him to thrive.
They’ll want to buy him all the best toys and send him to Disney World.
They’ll want him to sit courtside with dad at a Lakers game.
For his parents to buy a house on the lake and a brand new pontoon boat.
Lowly working-class you being fired by an evil, money-hungry, puppy-slaughtering corporation could be a brilliant career move.
You gotta give your GoFundMe customers a story.
Do you have a young child?
If the father out of the picture?
Addicted to crack, perhaps?
Is your young child intellectually disabled?
the corporation that fired you ruined both you and your innocent child’s life?
Bring that up on the bank floor during the busiest time of day.
Get into a screaming match with your boss.
Create a career out “the worst thing that’s ever happened to you”.
Saving Dogs
For the right audience, needy dogs can be even more profitable than needy people.
Move somewhere where theres an alarming number of stay dogs.
I recommend Fort Worth, Texas.
I was literally bullied into it.
10 years later, Dock is still going strong.
Anyways, what you do is set up a generic Save The Dogs GoFundMe.
Should be about $60 a pop.
Thats $40 profit per dog.
Unless that’s too sadistic to just go around chopping dogs balls off.
But it’s good for the species overall, right?
I don’t think Bob Barker would lie to me.
Now that I pop in that out I think you might have to find each dog a home.
Regardless, there’s money to be made somewhere in the crowdfunding dog space.
You never know, he could be legit.
Obviously you set your GoFundMe goal at $50k, because thats what you were promised.
Strike while the irons hot.
First off, no.
This is obviously a joke.
Secondly, youre not thinking broad enough.
Your physical body doesn’t need to have anything to do with your transition.
Its not for other people to decide what makes you feel like the real you.
The money youre raising is for your journey.
Its up to you what that journey looks like.
Clearly there are more noble ways to go about making a quick buck.
Getting a regular job, selling drugs, robbing people at gun point, etc.
If you go deep into the bowels of GoFundMe.com, there’s some real bold asks on there.
A LOT of people raising money after falling victim to scams.
A lot of people asking strangers to pay for them to go on vacation.
But I’m sure most of them are legit.
