PIZZA FOR THE HOMELESS

I meant to blog on this back in May, but it slipped through the cracks. It turns out that, for one man, a death row sentence doesn't always equate to anger and bitterness. For one guy, who has since been executed, kindess was what he wanted to give for his last meal. Check it out:

Philip Workman, 53, requested that his final meal be a vegetarian pizza donated to any homeless person located near Riverbend Maximum Security Institution.

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But prison officials refused to honor his request, saying that they do not donate to charities. That apparently upset a few people willing to pay for and deliver a lot of pies themselves.

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Donna Spangler heard about Workman's request and immediately called her friends. They all pitched in for the $1,200 bill to buy 150 pizzas, which they sent to the Rescue Mission.

"Philip Workman was trying to do a good deed and no one would help him," said the 55-year-old who recruited a co-worker to help her make the massive delivery Wednesday evening.

"I knew my husband would have a heart attack -- I put some of it on the credit card. But I thought we'll find a way to pay for them later," she said. "I just felt like I had to do something positive."

That came from [http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/09/execution.pizza/index.html|a May 10, 2007 article] at CNN.com.

Pretty fuckin' cool, huh? I always feel like the most important thing you can do is leave something positive behind when you go. This guy has changed the world in a tiny way, but he has changed it none the less. Philip Workman may have been on death row, but after his death he'll be remembered a bit more positively.

By the way, Workman was on death row for killing a cop during a robbery he committed in order to score some cash to fed his cocaine addiction.

Yeah, a wish pizzas for the poverty-stricken can't undo a cop's murder, but shouldn't it at least earn him our forgiveness now that he's dead?

I think so. Color me soft on crime if you want.

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