Grinn Blog: Finding Anthony's Leg

A friend of ours lost his leg when he was struck by a car. We'd like your help in finding him a new one.

The Criminal
October 21^st, 2007: Mario Smith is pulled over on a traffic violation just after 10 AM. The officer soon discovers that Mario has is a warrant for failure to appear in court on theft charges. The officer has one cuff on him when Smith resists and gets back in his car. The officer lets go so he is not dragged by the vehicle as Smith speeds away.The officer does not pursue because he has such a hug lead on the Officer. An APB is put out on Mario Smith. As Smith speeds south on Roswell Road a young man is crossing a crosswalk. Smith hits the man and continues down the road. He hits a taxi and 2 other vehicles before fleeing on foot. He is finally apprehended and charged with four counts of hit and run, obstruction of an officer, serious injury by vehicle, fleeing and attempting to elude a police officer, theft by taking, marijuana possession, and seven traffic offenses. The whole ordeal lasts only 12 minutes. He does not have auto insurance.

The Victim
Two weeks before this, Anthony Bevis, 22, moved to Atlanta to help with his brother's business and to go to school. The Sunday morning after he had enrolled at Perimeter college he was on his way to work when he came to the cross walk at Roswell Road in Sandy Springs, Georgia. The light changed to walk and he began to cross the street. He is struck by a car just two steps from the curb. 911 is called and soon cops and ambulances arrive. He is rushed to the hospital where, after surgery, he discovers he has lost his left leg.

How to Help
Anthony is our friend and neighbor. Since he just moved here two weeks ago he doesn't have any medical insurance. Being a young man, he may be a good candidate for experimental prosthesis. This article will be the first of a series of articles about Anthony's recovery and the search for technologies that may help his plight. We've set up a PayPal account for donations, and all the proceeds made from pay-per-click advertising for this article will be donated to Anthony. Below are some ways you may be able to help. Some of these may only require seconds of your time:

Help spread the word:

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Do you have a friend or colleague in the medical engineering field? Tell them about this article. You never know if they might know something or someone who can help Anthony.
Email this article to your friends. http://www.grinn.net/anthony is a shorter URL that redirects to this article.

Do you work in a field that may be able to help Anthony? We'd like to open the comment section of this article up to discussion of technologies that may help Anthony. You can also click Contact Us from our main page to contact us directly. We're working closely with Anthony's family and can get you any specifics on his condition that you need.
You can help Anthony financially, even without spending a dime:

100% of the proceeds earned from the yellow pay-per-click advertisements on this article and any of the other articles we do on Anthony will go to Anthony to help pay his medical bills. We're not saying to click on the ads for just for Anthony's sake, but do pay attention to them and if there is a product or service in the ads that you may find useful, know that visiting that ad will help him out.
If you'd like to make a donation to Anthony, you can do so in two ways: The PayPal Donate button at the bottom of this article will let you donate funds to Anthony. Also, you can visit any Wachovia Bank and tell them you'd like to "make a donation to Anthony Bevis of Sandy Springs". Either way, the funds will go into a bank account that Anthony's family set up for him to help pay his medical bills.

Again, the focus of this series is not just to raise funding for Anthony's medical bills, but to find technologies that may help him out. If you know of anyone or anything that may be of help to him, post about it in the comments section of this article, or contact us from our main page. As we get more details about his condition from the doctors and learn more about what details people need to determine candidacy, we'll post more of the specifics of his condition.

Thank you for your help.