Podcast appearances and mentions of johnny bobbitt

The heartwarming story of a homeless veteran, Johnny Bobbitt, who spends his last $20 to help a stranded woman captures national media attention when the woman and her boyfriend start a GoFundMe campaign to help him get on his feet. Kate McClure and Mark D'Amico raise more than $400,000 in just a few weeks. However, when things don't seem to add up, investigators quickly learn this story is all based on a lie.

After High School we all go our seperate ways. Some of us go to college, some go to the military, and in some cases a few of us make up a barely believable story so thousands of people donate money in the hopes of helping a homeless man with a heart of gold who didn't actually do what people believe he did.Back in 2017 the world was introduced to the story of Katie McClure, her boyfriend Mark D'Amico, and said homeless man, our boy Johnny Bobbitt Jr. Bobbitt gave Katie his last $20 for gas when he saw that she was stranded on the side of I-95. It didn't take long for the scheme to unravel, but not after the trio made away with $400k in GoFundMe donations. Once the truth was out the world was shocked.Not as shocked as Nanner and I, because we went to High School with Katie McClure. Hear what we think of our former classmates shady plot and how the Fritz Boyz would have dealt with old Johnny Bobbitt (aka The Weak Link).

During the holiday season of 2017, Mark D'Amico and Kate McClure started a GoFundMe fundraiser to help homeless veteran Johnny Bobbitt. The campaign went viral and captured the hearts of 14,000 people worldwide. Together they raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to help Johnny, but when a team of journalists and authorities took a closer look, they discovered a GoFundMe Holiday Heist.

as we hit episode 129, I'll share a little personal note that sometimes I am asked what exactly is it I hope to accomplish with this program.  To which I can only reply, would you ask Marshall  Applewhite (or his QB son Major) what they hoped to accomplish? Would you ask Marie Curie (or her daughter Cherie) what they hoped to accomplish?  Maybe the full measure of this show's importance cannot be fully grasped until some day in the future while I'm being devoured by bugs. 

8 shootings in the last 24 hours within Philadelphia and how it compares to Uvalde. Dawn takes your calls again about school safety and the media bias on reporting shootings. Later, Dawn returns taking your calls bout gun control and school safety and what steps can be done to address it. We also discuss mental health. Breaking news, Kevin Spacey is being charged with multiple counts of sexual assault. We return to program talking about the salmonella outbreak and subsequent recall in our peanut butter. Then she touches on what it feels like to graduate your child from high school and the beauty of seeing them grow up. Finally she touches on a burning barge on the Delaware River, Phil Murphy demanding a handing in of guns; and she teases the show tomorrow down in Cape May. However, there is a lifeguard shortage down the shore. It is possible parts of the beach will be closed. And we end the show with an update on The Johnny Bobbitt case. You don't want to miss it.

Feel-good stories on social media help restore faith in humanity. In all the turmoil, it's a fantastic reminder that we are real and we are here. And while the reward is often in endorphins, sometimes they can be monetary as well; the tendrils of its love forever plague it. And it can cause people to do terrible things indeed. Here's Part 2 of the 2017 story of Katelyn McClure, Mark D'Amico, Johnny Bobbitt, and the GoFundMe scheme that shocked the nation by hitting the Play icon. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scamkingstc/message

Feel-good stories on social media help restore faith in humanity. In all the turmoil, it's a fantastic reminder that we are real and we are here. And while the reward is often in endorphins, sometimes they can be monetary as well; the tendrils of its love forever plague it. And it can cause people to do terrible things indeed. Check out Part 1 of the 2017 story of Katelyn McClure, Mark D'Amico, Johnny Bobbitt, and the GoFundMe scheme that shocked the nation by hitting the Play icon. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scamkingstc/message

Tonight we talked with author Thom Nickels about his recently published book From Mother Divine to the Corner Swami: Religious Cults in Philadelphia: his interview with Mother Divine, experiences with Scientology, Bishop John the society tarot card reader, what keeps Philadelphians in Philadelphia, and his early fixation with eyebrows.~~~~~~~Thom Nickels is the author of fifteen books, including: Out in History (2005), Philadelphia Architecture (2005) and Spore (2010). Nickels was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for, Two Novellas: Walking Water & After All This (1990) and awarded the Philadelphia AIA Lewis Mumford Award for Architectural Journalism in 2005. His poetry has appeared in Van Gogh's Ear anthology (Paris). His column, Different Strokes in the Philadelphia Welcomat in the 1980s, was the first out gay column in a mainstream newspaper in the nation.He has written for a variety of national and regional publications, including the Huffington Post, Passport Magazine (New York), Philadelphia Tribune, Philadelphia City Paper, The Philadelphia Bulletin (2003-2005), The Philadelphia Inquirer, Travel Weekly, The Philadelphia Daily News and Philadelphia Magazine. His essay on his years as a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War was published by The New Oxford Review and reprinted in the Oklahoma Humanities Magazine, Vietnam issue, Fall/Winter 2017. He was the theater critic for ICON Magazine, the architecture critic for Metro Philadelphia and has been a columnist for PJ Media (Los Angeles), The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Philadelphia Daily News and Philadelphia Magazine.Thom currently writes a weekly column for the Philadelphia Free Press and The Philadelphia Irish Edition. He is a regular contributor to City Journal, New York, the Delaware Valley Journal and Philadelphia's Broad + Liberty.Literary Philadelphia: A History of Prose & Poetry in the City of Brotherly Love was published by The History Press in 2015 and was featured as the main book review in the Sunday edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer. His scholarly essay on Philadelphia essayist Agnes Repplier was the cover feature essay in the Winter issue of The American Catholic Studies Journal (Villanova University), 2015.His book, Philadelphia Mansions: Stories and Characters Behind the Walls was published by The History Press in March 2018.His book, From Mother Divine to the Corner Swami: Religious Cults in Philadelphia (Fonthill Media, UK) was published in October 2020.Nickels was the featured speaker at the Walt Whitman Annual Birthday Party, Tuesday, May 23, 2017 at the Walt Whitman House in Camden.Nickels co-founded the Arts Defense League (later renamed the Coalition for Philadelphia Art), a grassroots organization instrumental in keeping Maxfield Parrish's ‘The Dream Garden' in Philadelphia's Curtis Building after an attempted buy-out in the mid-1990's by Las Vegas casino mogul, Steve Wynn. This grassroots campaign brought media attention to the issue and served to galvanize state and city support to keep “Dream Garden' in Philadelphia after a photograph of Nickels with a colleague picketing the Curtis Center was published on page one of The Philadelphia Inquirer. Nickels was interviewed and photographed extensively by People Magazine for his efforts. Numerous interviews in the local press followed in the weeks following the founding of the Arts Defense League.Nickels, a native of Malvern, Pennsylvania, attended Eastern College, Baltimore, Maryland (now part of the University of Maryland), Immaculata University, and the Charles Morris Price School in Philadelphia where he was editor of the school magazine and where he was awarded The Carrie May Price Award for Best Student Work in Journalism.List of Published Works (Books):The Cliffs of Aries (Aegina Press) 1988Two Novellas: Walking Water & After All This, (Banned Books), 1989The Boy on the Bicycle (Starbooks Press), 1992, 1993Manayunk (Arcadia Publishing), 1996Gay and Lesbian Philadelphia (Arcadia Publishing), 1999Tropic of Libra (Starbooks Press), 2002Philadelphia Architecture (Arcadia Publishing), 2005Out in History (Starbooks Press), 2005Spore (Starbooks Press), 2009Walking on Water & After All This (Revised edition; Starbooks Press) 2011Legendary Locals of Center City Philadelphia (Arcadia Publishing), 2014Literary Philadelphia: A History of Poetry & Prose in the City of Brotherly Love (The History Press), 2015Learn to Do a Bad Thing Well: Looking for Johnny Bobbitt, Amazon Books, 2019.Philadelphia Mansions: Stories and Characters behind the Walls(The History Press), 2018The Perils of Homelessness, (Amazon, 2019).From Mother Divine to the Corner Swami: Religious Cults in Philadelphia (Fonthill Media, UK), 2020Anthologies:Smash the Church, Smash the State: The Early Years of Gay Liberation (City Lights Books, San Francisco, CA)~~~~~~~To explore past episodes of Into the Absurd, visit our Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/pg/IdiopathicRidiculopathyConsortium/videos/ORThe IRC's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj9sR3Pi7_igB845rllrtsLhtqYnuwDRvAnd while you're there, be sure to SUBSCRIBE, so you don't miss any future episodes.

Kayla tells her roommate a crazy snowball-ing story where a $20 can of gas opens up a can of worms. AKA the hometown true crime story Kayla found out about from her parents while driving to the airport after the holidays. Hope you enjoy!  PS. Start the new year feeling powerful and generous by giving us a five-star review on Apple Podcasts and helping our lil baby podcast grow. We love you, buds!  instagram: @highcrimepod twitter: @highcrimepod facebook: high crime pod website: www.highcrimepod.com email: info@highcrimepod.com  Sources: Woman, homeless man in GoFundMe scheme plead guilty // AP // https://apnews.com/54994aca4b6d4748971513dd119672aa Good Morning America interview // Facebook // https://www.facebook.com/GoodMorningAmerica/videos/10155188376837061/ Homeless vet gets home, car after helping stranger // Cydney Henderson // The Republic, AZ Central // https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/nation/2017/11/29/z-homeless-veteran-johnny-bobbitt-go-fund-me-raises-390000-dollars/906804001/ Alleged ringleader in $400k GoFundMe scam pleads guilty // Erik Ortiz // NBC News // https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alleged-ringleader-400k-gofundme-scam-pleads-guilty-n1097106 Mark D’Amico faces federal fraud charges in GoFundMe scam involving homeless veteran // Sheri Berkery and Carol Comegno // Cherry Hill Courier-Post // https://www.courierpostonline.com/story/news/crime/2019/10/03/gofundme-scam-mark-damico-johnny-bobbitt-homeless-veteran-federal-charges/3854043002/ Homeless man charged in $400,000 GoFundMe scam pleads guilty // Guardian staff and agencies // The Guardian // https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/06/johnny-bobbitt-gofundme-scam-homeless-man-guilty Johnny Bobbitt, homeless veteran involved in GoFundMe scheme, gets 5 years probation // Aaron Katersky // ABC News // https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/homeless-veteran-johnny-bobbitt-involved-gofundme-scheme-set/story?id=62355182 NJ Woman Pleads Guilty In Homeless GoFundMe Hoax, Faces 4 Years In State Prison // Amy Held // NPR // https://www.npr.org/2019/04/16/713823522/n-j-woman-pleads-guilty-in-homeless-gofundme-hoax-faces-4-years-in-state-prison

On today's show Shannon & Mike discuss homeless man Johnny Bobbitt who appeared in a New Jersey court via video to face charges in a GoFundMe scam. And, a suspect turns himself in to police after debating it with them on Facebook. Also, a Texas man is arrested after telling kids Santa isn't real. Then, Kid Rock stuns Walmart customers by paying off 81K in layaway accounts. Plus more.

A New Jersey couple raises money on GoFundMe to repay a homeless man for his act of kindness. Prelude: Ginny Irovando Long organizes a fundraiser for her terminally ill son. SUPPORT: Patreon.com/Swindled. DONATE: SwindledPodcast.com/Support. CONSUME: SwindledPodcast.com/Shop. MUSIC: Deformr (deformr.com) INSTAGRAM: Instagram.com/SwindledPodcast. TWITTER: Twitter.com/SwindledPodcast. FACEBOOK: Facebook.com/SwindledPodcast. Thanks for listening. :-) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A moron in California thought he had won $10K on a scratch-off, turns out is was actually $10 million, but he told his roommates about it and got it stolen, now he may be getting it back… listen to find out. Another dog has shot and severely injured its owner, this time it was a former LSU football player on a duck hunting trip. Two women in North Carolina are charged with kidnapping and sexual battery after confronting a transgender person in the ladies bathroom; and a Lightning Round of other headlines, including Jeff Bezos getting a divorce, billionaire Norwegian wife held ransom for $10 million, President Trump walking out of his meeting and cutting FEMA funding to California, and Johnny Bobbitt has been found. 

GoFundMe Gives Refunds After Viral Campaign Found To Be A Hoax MOUNT HOLLY, N.J.  — GoFundMe says it has refunded everyone who contributed to a campaign involving a homeless veteran from Philadelphia who prosecutors allege schemed with a New Jersey couple to scam donors out of more than $400,000. Burlington County prosecutors allege in a criminal complaint that Johnny Bobbitt conspired with Katelyn McClure and her boyfriend at the time, Mark D'Amico, to concoct a feel-good story about Bobbitt giving McClure his last $20 when her car ran out of gas. They raised $400,000, which authorities say was spent on luxury items and casino trips. http://paypal.me/PhoenixAndWilliam http://patreon.com/winecellarmediafund

On today's show Shannon & Mike discuss homeless man Johnny Bobbitt who appeared in a New Jersey court via video to face charges in a GoFundMe scam. And, a suspect turns himself in to police after debating it with them on Facebook. Also, a Texas man is arrested after telling kids Santa isn't real. Then, Kid Rock stuns Walmart customers by paying off 81K in layaway accounts. Plus more.

On today's show Shannon & Mike discuss homeless man Johnny Bobbitt who appeared in a New Jersey court via video to face charges in a GoFundMe scam. And, a suspect turns himself in to police after debating it with them on Facebook. Also, a Texas man is arrested after telling kids Santa isn't real. Then, Kid Rock stuns Walmart customers by paying off 81K in layaway accounts. Plus more.

Can this Johnny Bobbitt story go away already?! This week we hear what the guys think about abortion...that's fun. We also talk about what more crazy people are saying and doing...that's fun too. We also learn that the U.K. can go from making lots of sense to being completely ridiculous within the space of two stories!!

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Remember the story of homeless veteran Johnny Bobbit, who gave gave him last $20.00 to Kate McClure and her boyfriend, Mark D'Amico, after they ran out of gas. If not, let us refresh your memory. Since that story came out, a lot of drama unfolded in the press. Bobbitt originally filed a lawsuit against McClure and D'Amico for withholding the over $400 thousand that was raised in the GoFundMe. However, there was a SHOCKING TWIST today. Johnny Bobbitt, a homeless veteran in 2017, as well as Kate McClure and her boyfriend Mark D'Amico, have been charged with theft by deception and conspiracy to commit theft by deception in connection with a GoFundMe scheme that police say fraudulently raised the money on GoFundMe, according to a news release from the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office. Listen to this report from ABC News… A New Jersey prosecutor announced today that the story that launched a GoFundMe campaign that raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for a homeless man was all a hoax. The prosecutor said that they have spoken with GoFundMe, and they will be refunding ALL of the money that was donated.

Sometime ago a young woman travelling alone sat stranded in her car on I-95 in route to Philadelphia, PA.  A nearby homeless man, Johnny Bobbitt, sensing her distress came to her aid.  Johnny Bobbitt told her to remain in her car and keep the doors locked.  Moments later he returned with a red container filled with gasoline which he purchased with his last twenty dollars.   To show her gratitude, Katelyn McClure, the young woman who was stranded, and her boyfriend, Mark D'Amico, started a GoFundMe hoping to raise $10,000 to help Bobbitt get back on his feet.  In less than a month, the GoFundMe account raised nearly $400,000.    At that point, this was a Rags to Riches feel good story.  But what took place afterwards leaves one puzzled as to how these good intentions can yield so much trouble.   Listen in to find out about the trouble in this story and to hear the insight and answers to this entire situation through The Holy Scriptures. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gofundme-for-homeless-man-couple-accused-of-stealing-funds-highlights-risks-of-crowdfunding/ https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gofundme-says-johnny-bobbitt-jr-will-get-all-400-000-n907401

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