1.5 BTC Donation for a Project

[d3m0n1q_733rz]

Hi everybody!  It's D337z again!

Anyhow, I'm just going to get right down to it.  I've got a project I want to accomplish for the community and not enough income to fulfill it myself.  So, I'm asking if anyone wants to donate to help me out.  Now, I know what many of you who don't know me will say, "SCAM!  He's totally scamming you!"  Well, I'm going to tell you right here and now that a donation is just that.  You don't get anything out of it but the satisfaction that your money might be going to a good cause.  And yes, I said might.  As with any other donation you've made in your life, unless you're standing right there, you can't be sure where your money went to.
Now to tell you what your donation is supposed to go towards.  I have quite a few neighbors around my neighborhood that can't take care of their lawns due to either financial problems or physical inability.  So, I've acquired a 48 Volt battery-powered lawn mower via FreeCycle that needs 4x 12 Volt 9 Amp batteries to run.  The problem is that I can't afford to get the batteries myself as they surplus to over $120 total.  I can make the repairs myself, so I don't need to ship it to Craftsman to get it fixed.  I was wondering if anyone would like to spare some BTC for the batteries and possibly travel expenses in case I branch out to other people outside of the neighborhood who need free lawn care.
The way I see it, my home town here has a law that says that grass can not exceed 8 inches in height or they will fine the owner of the home.  If someone can't afford to be mowing their lawn, they can't pay the fine.  If they're unable to physically mow their lawn, it's adding insult to injury.  I already know of a few people around the neighborhood who could use my free help, so I'll be making at least a small difference.  The mower will last about 10 years on the 4x batteries.  And any excess donations will go towards other community projects...which I haven't decided on yet but may include household wind turbines.

Well, feel free to forward any questions or accusations to me personally.

Take care!
D337z

Donations to:  16U1teSxRLpP64NeSAJ3CSoEqwZq4fgonT
Every little bit helps!

Edit:  I think I've decided to open a community tool shed where the community can get what tools they need lent to them for free.  I think it's the only way to be truly fair about it.

[d3m0n1q_733rz]

The project is GO!  I've created a GoFundMe page for anyone who's interested in more information about the project.
http://www.gofundme.com/Community-Tools
Even if you're not interested in donating yourself, please at least have a look and possibly share with your friends and family who might be interested.  Not only will it help to spread the word about this particular project, it could help to stimulate other projects to be created in other areas of the world.
Thanks!

-D337z

[b!z]

tl;dr: scam

[d3m0n1q_733rz]

Oh thank you!  I was wondering when you would show-up!  I wasn't sure who it would be, but I knew it had to be someone!  ^__^

Scam!  Scam!  Woo-hoo!  ~Takes my shirt off and shows my man boobs~   

Yeah...not really.  I do what I say I'm going to do with bitcoin/money.  When my friend's apartment burned down, I collected about $50 in BTC at the time and sent it straight to her.  Yeah, she needed to setup a dwolla account, but she managed to get back on her feet...minus getting charged for a number of library books that were in the fire.
This time, I want to get a project going that will evolve as time progresses into something much bigger and better than it was originally meant to be.  I keep daydreaming over what I can do with this project.  Maybe take it on the road to places that are hit by storms, hurricanes, tornadoes and such, or start collecting enough donations with it to start building houses for people...all of these are far-fetched and highly unlikely, but I want to start simple and work my way up.  Something I can't seem to do alone -- unless I had jars, acid, lead panels, wire...hmm.
Why don't you guys yell scam when someone's selling 200 of something for less than they're worth?  And yet, here I am telling you flat-out that I want to take donations for a project and pointing out the fact that the only way you could see proof is after it's completed, and you guys hit the scam buzzer right off the bat.  Weird.   

[Atruk]

Hi everybody!  It's D337z again!

Anyhow, I'm just going to get right down to it.  I've got a project I want to accomplish for the community and not enough income to fulfill it myself.  So, I'm asking if anyone wants to donate to help me out.  Now, I know what many of you who don't know me will say, "SCAM!  He's totally scamming you!"  Well, I'm going to tell you right here and now that a donation is just that.  You don't get anything out of it but the satisfaction that your money might be going to a good cause.  And yes, I said might.  As with any other donation you've made in your life, unless you're standing right there, you can't be sure where your money went to.
Now to tell you what your donation is supposed to go towards.  I have quite a few neighbors around my neighborhood that can't take care of their lawns due to either financial problems or physical inability.  So, I've acquired a 48 Volt battery-powered lawn mower via FreeCycle that needs 4x 12 Volt 9 Amp batteries to run.  The problem is that I can't afford to get the batteries myself as they surplus to over $120 total.  I can make the repairs myself, so I don't need to ship it to Craftsman to get it fixed.  I was wondering if anyone would like to spare some BTC for the batteries and possibly travel expenses in case I branch out to other people outside of the neighborhood who need free lawn care.
The way I see it, my home town here has a law that says that grass can not exceed 8 inches in height or they will fine the owner of the home.  If someone can't afford to be mowing their lawn, they can't pay the fine.  If they're unable to physically mow their lawn, it's adding insult to injury.  I already know of a few people around the neighborhood who could use my free help, so I'll be making at least a small difference.  The mower will last about 10 years on the 4x batteries.  And any excess donations will go towards other community projects...which I haven't decided on yet but may include household wind turbines.

Well, feel free to forward any questions or accusations to me personally.

Take care!
D337z

Donations to:  16U1teSxRLpP64NeSAJ3CSoEqwZq4fgonT
Every little bit helps!

Edit:  I think I've decided to open a community tool shed where the community can get what tools they need lent to them for free.  I think it's the only way to be truly fair about it.

As I said on CoinChat I might has a salvageable mower if I can ever make it that far west on I-70.

[d3m0n1q_733rz]

What I'm trying to put together is an electrical battery-powered mower that I have so that I don't need to be buying gas for 5 different yards if people can't afford it.  This way, once I get a solar or wind power system put together (hopeful project evolution path), I can just plug it right in and charge it up in 14 hours to mow about 2/3 of an acre in a single charge.
Now, the reel mower...that would be a viable alternative.  But I would have to get one as opposed to the batteries.

How far East on I-70 are you?  O_o

[Atruk]

I'm far enough east to be in a different state. I'm still not quite decided yet on the fate of this mower either.

[legitnick]

Id rather donate to the red cross, and I do, regularly. At least I know for sure my money is going to where it says it is.

[bbit]

tl;dr: scam

[d3m0n1q_733rz]

Id rather donate to the red cross, and I do, regularly. At least I know for sure my money is going to where it says it is.

Actually, you don't know that your money is going to where it says.  http://www.damninteresting.com/retired/can-we-trust-the-red-cross/
With me, I'm up-front going to tell you that this project will go through once I get the donations -- the same thing the Red Cross will tell you.  Only, with me, I know that you're skeptical and I openly admit that there is little I can do besides showing pictures of myself with each person that I've helped AFTER it's done.  In other words, there's nothing I can do at present to prove to you that I will use it for the project which I have laid out.  I'm hoping that my honesty about this will be some form of collateral.  If I wanted to go about it with a 100% success rate of gaining donations, I would sell my soul posting propaganda that misleads people into thinking that it's actively going on/already started and that I need donations to keep it going.  I could show images of me supposedly feeding the hungry, shaking hands with the elderly, and using social psychology to make you think that I'm just like the Red Cross.  When, in reality, I would like to think that I'm doing more with the donations I get by utilizing them 100% on the project instead of maybe 11 - 25%.  Soon, I'll be receiving an actual shed from my neighbor who's getting a larger one.  I hope to paint it once I come up with a logo.  ^__^
And bbit, don't be an ass by bringing people down.  K?

[d3m0n1q_733rz]

Bumpity!