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Actor SONNY LANDHAM from PREDATOR (1987) has lost his legs in a car accident. HELP NEEDED.

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EDITED: That GoFundMe campaign is suspicious and, after a potentially dumb impulse donation on my part, I contacted the campaign maker for more information. DON’T DONATE ANYTHING until I hear something solid back from him. This could be a scam.


Only now found out about this: http://www.manlymovie.net/2016/10/sonny-landham-loses-legs-needs-help.html.

Here’s the GoFundMe page: https://www.gofundme.com/2seeyfg.

Chime in, if you can, if not - share the link around. Tweet it to Arnold, maybe.

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Yeah, I don’t know. At first it seemed like people just don’t care or maybe he’s not one to share his pain, or doesn’t have any social media-savvy people around him. I already threw a few bucks in, but it is definitely strange.

Sent the campaign maker a message:

_"Hey, Michael!

I have a question - I donated to the campaign, spread the word on social media and simply wish you guys the best - but some people, including myself, are wondering how come this isn’t making any news? I read about your campaign on manlymovie.net who got their info from KCCondifential.com, but, other than that - there’s nothing on google news or anything. Not trying to imply anything, just find it shocking and am curious as to why this isn’t making any news. I hope you understand.

Thanks and good luck!"_

Will see what he replies. I’m a huge Predator fan, watch that movie often - could very well be the greatest action flick ever made. Idea of seeing this dude in it again, knowing I didn’t do shit, didn’t even spread the word, would just bother me. But, yeah, now that the shock has worn off, I do have some more questions as well.

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yeh, let’s donate, because he is such a nice guy…NOT

http://www.barefootandprogressive.com/2008/07/sonny-landham-very-racist-very-stupid.html

And i’m VERY suspicious of this gofundme. How can he have just lots BOTH legs in this recent accident, when he had already lost ONE leg , supposedly, last year?

http://www.kcconfidential.com/2015/12/25/glazer-predator-star-sonny-landham-loses-right-leg-in-accident/

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adywan said:

And i’m VERY suspicious of this gofundme. How can he have just lots BOTH legs in this recent accident, when he had already lost ONE leg , supposedly, last year?

http://www.kcconfidential.com/2015/12/25/glazer-predator-star-sonny-landham-loses-right-leg-in-accident/

Shit, I completely missed that part because the article made reference to losing the one leg last Christmas, but the gofundme page said:

He recently lost both legs from a car accident. His wife then left him and he’s now living in a Holiday Inn Express in Kentucky. He has nothing left.

Yep, sure seems like a scam now.

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The fact that he ran for Senate and no one reported on the accident makes me really think this is a scam, either by him or someone using this Q-list actor’s name.

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I can’t even find evidence of that car accident from December outside of that one article.

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Weird…

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Also, I feel like I woulda heard about had a three-legged man been in Predator, but a review of the Hollywood press releases from that period yields nada

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If this isn’t a scam, it’s odd it’s floating below the entertainment news radar. The little person who doubled for ALF passing away, (and being confused with the main performer of the puppet) got more press.

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I know Sonny had quite a temper and such and he’s had trouble with the law because of it back in the day (before being cast in Predator). I have not kept up with him but this does seem a bit odd if it is true and hasn’t been picked up on the news wire just yet.

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Barely any twitter mentions of it and only as far back as July.

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The dude who’s running the campaign hasn’t answered me yet. If this is a scam, then I just lost some dough cause GoFundMe doesn’t have a real return policy. I don’t know anything about Sonny’s personal life (or that he ran for the office, even), I just watch Predator 20 times a year and felt compelled to do something when I read this online.

Should’ve done more research. Will edit the original post with a warning.

Apologies if I messed up.

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haraldo23 said:

The dude who’s running the campaign hasn’t answered me yet. If this is a scam, then I just lost some dough cause GoFundMe doesn’t have a real return policy.

https://pages.gofundme.com/guarantee-faq/

If GoFundMe investigates the campaign and confirms that there has been misuse, then we will refund your donation up to $1,000 per campaign.

I would contact them.

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haraldo23 said:

The dude who’s running the campaign hasn’t answered me yet. If this is a scam, then I just lost some dough cause GoFundMe doesn’t have a real return policy. I don’t know anything about Sonny’s personal life (or that he ran for the office, even), I just watch Predator 20 times a year and felt compelled to do something when I read this online.

Should’ve done more research. Will edit the original post with a warning.

Apologies if I messed up.

Ain’t your fault.

If you don’t mind me asking, how much did you donate?

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TV’s Frink said:

haraldo23 said:

The dude who’s running the campaign hasn’t answered me yet. If this is a scam, then I just lost some dough cause GoFundMe doesn’t have a real return policy.

https://pages.gofundme.com/guarantee-faq/

If GoFundMe investigates the campaign and confirms that there has been misuse, then we will refund your donation up to $1,000 per campaign.

I would contact them.

Hey, thanks! This link here - https://support.gofundme.com/hc/en-us/articles/204150420-How-can-I-get-my-donation-refunded- gave the impression that there’s no shot. Will try and contact the site.

The amount wasn’t much, just 15 bucks, but having a fake campaign up like this (if it’s fake) isn’t cool either way.

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Agreed, and maybe this will lead to confirmation that he actually has suffered an accident.

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Ok, i found this article, which includes a very interesting bit:

“He has been in a wheelchair since he was involved in a car accident in Ashland on September 19, 2006.”

Now this article was published in 2008. So, buy this time he has had a car accident and is confined to a wheelchair, then has another car accident in 2015 where he lost a leg and then another one in 2016 where he lost his other two legs?? Bull. It’s looking more like a scam every second.

http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=1641

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Contacted the site, will keep you guys posted.

But, man, the heck did I get myself into here. Finally decide to donate to a campaign and try and do something good and it turns out to be a potential scam, and the person in question turns out isn’t very nice himself (though, I’m not judging anybody here).

Should’ve just minded my own business (unless it’s a legit campaign).

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haraldo23 said:

I just watch Predator 20 times a year

You should probably get that checked out.

1 year = 8760 hours

Predator is 107 minutes long

107 minutes x 20 = 2140 minutes

2140 minutes = 35.66667 hours

8760 hours - 35.66667 hours = 8724.33333 hours

tl;dr: watching Predator twenty times a year ain’t so bad when you factor in the length of a year + the length of the movie itself.

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haraldo23 said:

Contacted the site, will keep you guys posted.

But, man, the heck did I get myself into here. Finally decide to donate to a campaign and try and do something good and it turns out to be a potential scam, and the person in question turns out isn’t very nice himself (though, I’m not judging anybody here).

Should’ve just minded my own business (unless it’s a legit campaign).

Nothing wrong with wanting to help a fellow human being.

Just gotta be careful with it.

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