Roanoke, Va., Businesses Offer Bullied Gay Student Free Car Repairs

[DeSwiss]

edge on the Net
by Jason St. Amand
Web Producer / Staff Writer
Thursday Aug 23, 2012

Business owners in Roanoke, Va., have come together to lend a helping hand to a gay bullied college student, Virginia’s WDBJ7 reported.

Jordan Addison’s car had been vandalized four times between March and May. The vandals spray-painted anti-gay slurs on Addison’s car because he is gay and someone even keyed the word "dyke" into the side of the Radford University student’s car.

Despite Addison’s best efforts, he could not remove the homophobic epithets from his vehicle and the lowest estimate he received to clean the car was $2,500 -- a price he could not afford.

When Richard Henegar, the manager of Quality Auto Paint and Body, heard what happened to the young man he insisted that he help out. "Once I saw the vandalism that was done to it, I said ’that’s uncalled for. We’re gonna fix your car.’ That’s the least we can do," he said.

MORE: http://www.edgeonthenet.com/news/national//136332/roanoke,_va,_businesses_offer_bullied_gay_student_free_car_repairs

[elleng]

1. VIRGINIA!

Going D!!!

[DeSwiss]

3. My fingers remain crossed. :-D n/t

[freshwest]

2. Good for them. These are the kind of decent people we need to hear more about.

[DeSwiss]

4. It's so rare I get to post a ''good'' story.

- Made my day!

[HopeHoops]

5. K&R

[ProgressiveEconomist]

6. IMO that businessman will get repaid 100x over in new business from

the LGBT and progressive communities.

$2500 worth of free repairs is a very small price for the kind of favorable publicity he's getting. He's branded himself as a progressive good guy in an industry full of sharks and gougers. That beats $2500 worth of any other kind of advertising by a mile.

[Oilwellian]

7. I live right outside of Roanoke

This is such an encouraging story for this area. I'll have to drop Mr. Henegar a note.

[Felix_C]

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