"His wife" has a name too, and it's Lélia Wanick Salgado. They're both environmentalists so they both should be recognized.

Elephants mourn their dead... they made this man an honorary member of the herd. This is so sweet and sad.

Hero ❤️❤️❤️

My neighbour is a tiny 5 foot, 100 lbs, woman in her 70s and she's a karate black belt + 5 or 6 dans. She actually owns a karate dojo. I pity the fool who's gonna try to rob her!

lmaoooo he’s pulling a sassy harry

He’s a savant.

Gray story but healthcare to save someone’s life should not drain your f*****g life savings

“wHeRe aRe tHe pEaNuT bUtTeR bArS, jErRy?”

A true life saver!!

❤️

He is a world treasure. Was a cutie, too...

Same trend can be observed in humans!

America runs on revenge. Revenge is not justice.

Good for him and others around him!

Why wasn't I invited?

That's a great idea

When a loved one leaves the pain is insurmountable. In my opinion,this pain never leaves. This insurmountable loss and pain becomes a part of our life as we cherish the memories.

Safari?

The photo doesn't match the story.

ok now i wanna go there soooo bad lol

If that's not dystopia then I don't know what is!!

Sad, sad commentary on our extremely f****d up country.

That’s heartbreaking! 💔 I hope the courts have mercy on him and got him the help he needed instead.

In Bermuda we had a well known street person who would smack a police officer upside the head round about November so that he could be sent to jail for the month of December and enjoy a really nice Christmas Dinner with people around him. The Bermuda Chief Magistrate who shoved him in the nick every year more or less admitted that this was a sort of charitable donation because otherwise the fella would be alone on the streets for Christmas. Everybody (including the cops) were okay with him because although he was permanently pissed (drunk to non-anglo speakers), he was not too much violent or mean, was a real character, , and he is now deceased, so no names, no pack drill - that's just how it was in Old Bermuda in them days. Try that in the Southern US now and they'd shoot him in the head just for being black and homeless and assaulting a police officer. Go Figure.

That's 'Murica for you, the greatest country in the world that doesn't take care of its citizens even a little. No "rights" no healthcare. This country literally isn't even in the top 25 hahahahhelpus

I hate that this is a reality, smh.

That's thinking outside the box. He do what he had to do.

What a sad commentary on social services in the US.

There are homeless pregnant women who do this for neonatal care.

... now, if that doesn't spark a debate that results in healthcare being a lot cheaper and easier to get by, the society in question deserves a major disruptive event. Pretty much like a defibrillatore, shock it to silence to have a restart leading to actual working conditions. A society in which this doesn't happen as a result of the least likely, yet happenable, events happening, but this, pretty much unspectacularly, just is the tip of a huge iceberg of similar fück ups, deserves those benefitting from this atrocity to lose any and every security. That may make them reevaluate their egoism as obviously leading life principle.

I’d say this makes me sick, but I can’t afford it

Funny thing about this medical plan, it's still occurring in the "greatest" country in the world. Never underestimate how far the US will stoop when it comes to protecting its people.

That’s so sad!

Pathetic

I read that this happens a lot in Japan, where elderly people with no family to support them commit crimes just to get jailed and have a roof, a bed and three meals a day.

So very sad.

A shame he had to resort to those actions, However . . . .

Sounds like America a while back.

For $1 so the government would pay his medical bill. Fixed headline for you

https://www.rt.com/usa/oregon-man-bank-robbery-healthcare-126/

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Must be a third world sh!thole country without national health or single payer.

Wow I hope for his sake he got what he needed

I would have chosen the county hospital or free clinic.

The U.S. health care system.

that's just wrong on so many levels and it's all over the US