Big Mac Hero
by digby
I'm not a major McDonalds fan, but this is great
Life is good for this Ohio hero.
Just one day after a group of Cleveland restaurants announced plans to give local man Charles Ramsey free burgers for life, McDonald's quietly confirmed that it will offer him free food for a year.
Ramsey's quirky interviews detailing his efforts to help free kidnapping victims Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight earlier in May made the dishwasher famous -- especially the part about him eating a McDonald's Big Mac moments before the rescue.
The three women had been abducted, held in a squalid house and abused for roughly a decade, allegedly by homeowner Ariel Castro. On May 6, Ramsey heard Amanda Berry's screams from his neighboring porch and helped break down Castro's door.
As word of Ramsey's heroics spread, the Internet inundated McDonald's with suggestions to offer him a reward.
Ramsay was really just being a decent human being, but I guess it's rare enough these days that it deserves a reward.
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