July 14, 2009

Man Panhandles to Pay Back Tom Brady: A 61-year-old trash picker in Massachusetts has hit the streets to collect $4,000 to repay New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady after he took two metal flower pots he thought were thrown out and sold them to a scrap dealer. Dennis Paiva suffered a brain aneurysm after the incident and is panhandling to pay off Brady, who might not know about the situation. "I can't work and I'm supposed to pay $333.33 a month to Brady," Paiva said. Update: A good samaritan paid the debt.

posted by rcade to football at 11:07 AM - 3 comments

Don't have time to search for an article right now, but pretty sure someone already paid off the debt for him.

posted by inigo2 at 11:49 AM on July 14, 2009

Yup, a local man paid off the debt for him, apparently because his wife had had an aneurysm and he wanted to help the guy out and help an ex-con turn his life around.

http://www.nowpublic.com/sports/dennis-paivas-4-000-debt-tom-brady-paid-dan-greenwald

posted by hincandenza at 12:05 PM on July 14, 2009

Dennis Paiva suffered a brain aneurysm after the incident

Did Tom Brady throw something at him?

posted by Drood at 06:55 PM on July 14, 2009

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