That Chinese Billionaire Who Promised To Give All The Homeless People $300 At His Free Lunch Completely Backed Out Of His Offer

Vice – A Chinese millionaire treated 250 homeless New Yorkers to a feast and karaoke rendition of “We Are the World” in Central Park today, but pretty much everyone left the event totally pissed off. The Chinese tycoon Chen Guangbiao began advertising the event last week, saying he would be giving away a gourmet lunch and $300 to homeless people in New York. After the word spread of the free cash and meals, people began sleeping in Central Park Tuesday night. But it quickly became clear that no one would be getting any money. VICE News was on the scene today as a spokeswoman for the New York City Rescue Mission, the shelter that organized the event, went on stage at the Loeb Boathouse Central Park restaurant and told the crowd that no one would be getting any cash, and instead Chen would be donating the money directly to the shelter.  “Mr. Chen agreed instead to give $90,000 to the mission,” read a press release handed out to the event by the Rescue Mission shelter. “We regret there was miscommunication, likely due to translation which created expectation for our guests that they would receive cash.” But soon after the spokeswoman made this announcement, Chen himself got on stage saying that he would still agree to give everyone $300 if they came down to the Rescue Mission headquarters to collect it. So 250 homeless people loaded onto four busses to head down to lower Manhattan to collect the money. But the group quickly realized they were duped again when Chen never showed up. One person told VICE News that he was planning on giving the money to his family and granddaughter. “He’s a thief!” yelled another. “I took my insulin this morning, thinking it would be a real dinner, but there was nothing there,” a homeless man told VICE News, as he was waiting at the shelter for Chen to show up. “It was a tiny piece of meat, but that was it. They didn’t feed me enough for my insulin, so I had to buy this food here before I get too low on sugar. Otherwise I would have gone into a coma, so that’s why I bought these sweets. “I’m going to give it another half hour and see what happens,” he added.

I take back everything I said about this guy. Everything. He just completely faced the vagrants of this city. Duped the shit out of them. Promised them $300 each, twice. Made them hop on busses. Drive down to some headquarters like a bunch of suckers. Meanwhile he’s probably in a helicopter back to his private jet to return to China saying “What the fuck was I thinking?” I mean what did I tell you, Chen? There’s a reason why we don’t even spare a fucking dime for some of these hobos. Because most of them are fucking junkies looking for more drugs as they use the streets as their toilet. If just giving a bunch of bums money fixed the whole homeless situation, I’m sure somebody would have done it already. Glad you came to your sense and pulled the plug on this whole fiasco before you flooded the streets with $90,000 worth of crack and Cisco.