And now something heartwarming. Internet group helps raise money to fix old man's barbershop

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[QUOTE]Aaron Biber is an 89-year-old barber from Tottenham. He lost his wife in 2010 and, in 2011, he lost his livelihood to rioters. His story made headlines when a striking image of his ransacked barbershop hit the Internet.Speaking to [URL="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8690265/Tottenham-riots-community-becomes-real-victim-of-rioters.html"]the Telegraph[/URL], Biber confirmed his barbershop would likely close. He did not have insurance and does not have the money to make the repairs himself. It was heart-wrenching.
But his story may have a happy ending. A group of interns at BBH Barn, a London advertising agency, started a website and began accepting donations to help Mr. Biber repair his barbershop. Thus far, they have collected £20,204.58 ($32,000) and that number continues to climb. Let's hope this gift will help him replace what was stolen and get back to serving the community of Tottenham. [[URL="http://keepaaroncutting.blogspot.com/"]Keep Aaron Cutting[/URL]][/QUOTE]

[URL="http://gizmodo.com/5830189/london-looting-victim-inspires-the-internet"]http://gizmodo.com/5830189/london-looting-victim-inspires-the-internet

F[/URL]UCK YEAH INTERNET

[MisterM]

Donation page set up for the Malaysian student who was robbed as he was bleeding.

[url]http://www.justgiving.com/somethingniceforashraf/[/url]

[Madman_Andre]

brb donating

[Johan123]

wow, that was heartwarming. I hope that old man gets his barbershop back

[rosthouse]

Heartwarming story of the day. Sometimes I'm really surprised to what the internet (and with that, people) are capable of doing.

[leontodd]

The video on the site is really touching. I hope he gets his barbershop up and running again, what a lovely man.

[Mr. Sun]

20,000+ pounds already? Surely that can pay for repairs and replace his looted things can't it?
But its amazing, he should get everything people are giving to him for what he has gone through.

[Pretiacruento]

This gives me hope. [img]http://sae.tweek.us/static/images/emoticons/emot-unsmith.gif[/img]

[Ruski]

Donated some cash. The old boy needs it more than me.

[SwissArmyKnife]

What's sad is this happened to thousands of people a lot like him but they didn't receive any media attention.

Still it's really nice to see this sort of thing happening.

[rosthouse]

[QUOTE=SwissArmyKnife;31688071]What's sad is this happened to thousands of people a lot like him but they didn't receive any media attention.

Still it's really nice to see this sort of thing happening.[/QUOTE]

I know that alot of people have suffered. I take this special case as a symbol, a way that users all over the world say "Look, the stuff that happened there isn't right nor approved by us." This guy stands as representative off all those.

Man, that came out corny.

Besides, they said that they'll use any overhead to help others.

[MeMassiveFag]

Doughnated.