1.
Prodigy, 21, about to become doctor
FREDERICTON, New Brunswick, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- A Canadian bank vice president is spending the week living on the streets as a homeless person in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
Brian Jones, 40, agreed to undergo the experience as part of a documentary being produced by filmmaker Doug Sutherland, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported.
Jones works for TD Waterhouse and chose his sleeping area on the concrete floor of a parking garage next to the TD Tower, the report said.
He told the CBC he has been using a soup kitchen for food, but also panhandles and scrounges garbage bins for returnable bottles and cans.
Jones said most of his banking work involves helping people with financial planning for the future or retirement, but the first few days of street life taught him something new about how the homeless regard the future.
"Next day, next hour. The bigger the problem is, the shorter the time period. So if it's a drug fix, it's that day," he said.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Additional World News Stories | |
NEW YORK, June 4 (UPI) --
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday he supports Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's call to limit the number of people arrested for small amounts of marijuana.
|
LOS ANGELES, June 4 (UPI) --
NBC has cast Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen as the titular psychiatrist-serial killer in its upcoming drama series "Hannibal Lecter," The Hollywood Reporter said.
|
TEL AVIV, Israel, June 4 (UPI) --
Israel's secretive Unit 8200 of Military Intelligence is increasingly seen to have played a leading role in developing a new cyberweapon known as W32.Flame.
|
GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn., June 4 (UPI) --
A Minnesota fifth-grader who skipped school to meet President Barack Obama with his family received an excuse note signed by the commander-in-chief.
|
| Stories | Photos | People | Comments |
View Caption
