Use of Private Jet Loses Homeless Man the Chance for 50 Cents
Denver, CO – Winston Dranger is a homeless man who puts his head down at one shelter or another or, more often than not, in a dark alleyway in downtown Denver. He says he’s 47-years-old, but looks more like he’s reaching his mid-60′s. And, like others in his plight, he feeds himself only through the small amounts of change he can panhandle throughout the day. So losing a chance at 50 cents like he did today was earth-shattering.
“One of my buddies, Slats, in Boulder told me he talked to a guy who could spare a full-on buck. Slats took 50 of the cents and was nice enough to call me to come get t’other 50,” said Dranger. “Sos, I flew over in my Gulfstream. Well, it happens the guy got all insulted I came over in a private jet. Said I was the height of arrogance or some such. He didn’t give me the change and, well, here I am again. Nothing to [eat]. I guess there’s always tomorrow. I hope, anyways,” he said as the chill of the night air whipped through his threadbare coat.
Asked how he, a homeless man with literally no funds was able to “call” his friend in Boulder, Dranger said, “We can’t afford no mobile phones or nothing like that, of course. Sos Slats hologrammed hisself to me using the ‘poor man’s phone’ as we call it.”
Dranger’s Gulfstream jet. Many times Dranger is unable to stock the bar with even the most essential of grain alcohols