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Last Updated: February 18. 2011 5:17PM
Facebook: RoboCharity
RoboCop pushback raises 10,000 meals for Metro
Detroit hungry
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Catherine Jun / The Detroit News
Oak Park — Donations have poured in to an area charity after a movie screenwriter urged fans to turn their
RoboCop statue fundraising frenzy toward another cause. Forgotten Harvest, a food rescue agency in Oak
Park, saw online donations triple on Thursday, said John Owens, spokesman for the agency. "We can
probably provide about 10,000 meals with what we got yesterday."
He declined to release the specific figure or the identities of the donors.
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Donations may have first been sparked by comic book author Ron Marz, who
messaged to his 3,790 Twitter followers on Thursday morning: "Because I have
a big mouth, I tweeted that $50K for the Robocop statue in Detroit was kinda
dumb when people are hungry."
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Last week, an online campaign succeeded in raising $50,000 to erect a
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RoboCop statue in the city of Detroit. The campaign was started after Mayor
Dave Bing responded to a suggestion on Twitter: that the city needs the halfman, half-cyborg crimefighter from the 1987 movie to solve its crime problem.
The tweet attracted national media attention and movie fans and art fanatics
raised within six days the total dollars needed through kickstarter.com. It is
unclear whether the statue will be built.
Owens today attributed the uptick to a new Facebook group called
"RoboCharity," which has encouraged followers to donate instead to Forgotten
Harvest, which delivers food to the hungry throughout Metro Detroit.
The group was started by screenwriter Gary Whitta, who wrote last year's
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"Charity isn't a zero-sum game, and just because people donated to the
RoboCop statue doesn't mean they can't donate to other charities," the group
writes in its profile. "Let's do some good! We can have our RoboCop and eat it
too!"
"RoboCharity" has garnered nearly 300 followers, prompting Whitta to tweet:
"RoboCop statues are great but feeding hungry people is better!"Owens said
this morning that he was trying to contact both Whitta and Marz.
"We're extremely pleased that this is happening," Owens said. "Who are these
guys?"
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