Pa. Hospital Gets Shoeshine Tips Totaling $200,000

[Sherman A1]

A shoeshine man has given a Pittsburgh children's hospital a total of more than $200,000 in tips he's collected over the last 30 years.

Albert Lexie says he's been shining shoes for $5 at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh since the early 1980s. He says most customers tip him $1 and some give him an extra $2. He says a doctor gave him a $50 bill for Christmas.

WTAE-TV ( http://bit.ly/136jx4X ) says Lexie gives all his tip money to the hospital's sick children.

Dr. Joseph Carcillo says Lexie has donated more than a third of his lifetime salary to the Children's Hospital Free Care Fund, which helps parents who can't afford to pay their sick children's medical costs.

http://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/pa-hospital-shoeshine-tips-totaling-200000-18553911

[Mopar151]

1. That's a hero ! n/t

[TxDemChem]

2. What a giving person

My hero too

[malaise]

3. Amazing how the most generous among us are never the rich

or those seeking tax relief.

[Sherman A1]

7. Wasn't there a study indicating

that the gray matter of the wealthy did not necessarily lend itself to empathy?

Thought I read that somewhere.

[malaise]

8. Yes and there was another one showing that

empathy was not the privy of the religious

[CBGLuthier]

4. Underdog is Real!!

Well he is certainly a heroic shoe shine man.

[rurallib]

5. A truly overwhelming story

This is the kind of person to emulate, not the corporate greed head.

[hue]

6. He is a real Angel!!

[Liberal_in_LA]

9. wow

[OceanEcosystem]

10. Wow. He deserves national recognition! n/t.