Thursday, September 19

Fresno Hispanic youth sets example by sitting down to lunch with homeless after buying food at Taco Bell

Joven hispano de Fresno pone el ejemplo al sentarse a almorzar con indigente tras comprarle comida en Taco Bell

The episode full of goodness happened at a Taco Bell in Fresno, California.

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Ricardo López Juárez

Many in the Californian city of Fresno woke up this Thursday with a smile and renewed hope. All thanks to the generous and exemplary detail of a young Hispanic who a few days ago decided to invite a man on the street to lunch at a Taco Bell restaurant .

The young man from 16 years of name Michael Moreno not only bought food from the man identified as Vance, but then invited him to sit in the back of his pickup truck and they shared food in the Taco Bell parking lot in a detail simple and at the same time powerful due to its great human burden, which has been disclosed in various local media in Fresno .

The meeting occurred on 16 April at the restaurant Taco Bell located in Blackstone and McKinley, which was captured on video by a young woman who was meters away looking at do from your car. “You are sent from heaven,” wrote Itzel Martínez on her Tik Tok account when posting the video, that went viral.

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Interviewed by the local channel NBC 29 , Moreno said that he had no money when the man asked him for help, so it occurred to him to offer him food. “I asked her if she wanted three soft tortilla tacos and a drink and she said: ‘Yes, I’m very hungry too” .

In explaining why you decided to share 45 minutes of talk with Vance, the young Hispanic said: “I just decided to take the time to sit there and talk because he and I are the same” .

While other customers in the drive-thru line ignored the man, Michael Moreno, 16, decided to roll down his window and asked the man if he was hungry. https://t.co/ZXFs1TWnTp

– Fresno Bee (@FresnoBee) April 29, 2021