Sep 14 2007Colin Farrell helps the quasi-homeless

Colin Farrell took a homeless man on a $2100 shopping spree in Toronto. Colin had the met the guy years ago while filming a movie, and decided to catch up with him. The Daily Mail reports:
Farrell reportedly told shop assistants, “Get him anything he wants. Whatever he needs,” before shelling out $2,100 (£1,050) on new clothes and outdoor gear at Toronto's Europe Bound Travel Outfitters store. Staff helped the homeless man, known as Stress, and Farrell pick out a coat, a sleeping bag, and a rucksack stuffed with socks, boots and new underwear. “He was a cool guy. He doesn't act like a movie star,” store manager Dave Mott said.
But Colin’s generosity didn’t end there.
According to newspaper the Toronto Sun, after the shopping spree, Farrell asked Mott for directions to the nearest bank machine, where he withdrew a wad of $20 (£10)notes for Stress. Now Stress reportedly plans to take a bike trip around Farrell's native Ireland.
Wait a minute. I don’t know many homeless people that plan on taking international flights to go bike-riding. I do know a homeless guy who will wash your windows for half a hash brown. Though he does a really crappy job. Sure he’s only got a three month old magazine and his own spit, but show some pride in your work, Hash Brown Joe. I even threw in a ketchup packet. Yeah, Colin Farrell bought you a Lexus, so what? I gave you Heinz ketchup. That’s the Lexus of ketchup.
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Reader Comments
1. H - September 14, 2007 12:42 PM
1st
2. Damn you H! - September 14, 2007 12:44 PM
Fuck you H.
3. H - September 14, 2007 12:45 PM
Wow. Wouldn't it have been more useful clean him up, get him a job, etc. etc.? That money can only last through so many trips to Europe.
4. kathy - September 14, 2007 12:46 PM
how about buying him a HOME. you know, since he's homeless....??
5. lola - September 14, 2007 12:47 PM
so when the funds run out which they WILL...then what? the guy prolly will show up at his house like a cat you shouldn't have fed but you did....meow
6. LadyJane - September 14, 2007 12:49 PM
Wiat a minute... I thought they hung Saddam????
7. wedgeone - September 14, 2007 12:50 PM
Imagine how much alcohol he'll be able to buy after the cameras go away and he sells all that stuff. Lucky bum.
8. Ascil - September 14, 2007 12:51 PM
8!!!! Beat tht!
9. 100 Adoring Female Fans - September 14, 2007 12:52 PM
Colin is so caring and generous! Let's all fuck him!
10. jonny - September 14, 2007 12:52 PM
He's not taking a bike trip, the store manager is.
11. H - September 14, 2007 12:52 PM
"Farrell met "Stress" four years ago when he was in Toronto shooting a movie. Back then, he helped "Stress" win a $2,000 prize."
Looks like the cat's already come back, Lola.
12. Rzwrong - September 14, 2007 12:53 PM
That first line
Wait a minute. I don’t know many homeless people that plan on taking international flights to go bike-ridin.
Cracked me up.
13. FRIST!!! - September 14, 2007 12:53 PM
Half a hash brown oh my god that's funny!!!!!
#4, he did, he got him a sleeping bag. Home sweet bag..
14. ssdd - September 14, 2007 12:56 PM
He helped a homeless person because he can relate.... .~.Lookswise.~
Colins hair looks greasy .. ..he looks like he hasn't had a bath in months... his eyebrows are so bushy he probably has lice in them ... hi fingernails look dirty and his knuckles are stained............and that jacket looks like it was purchased from the Dollar Store.............He is a dirty bastard.
15. Barry LeFarge - September 14, 2007 12:58 PM
Colin Farrell news items are much better when they're about his sex videos with Playboy models. Lets stick to those
16. havoc - September 14, 2007 1:01 PM
LMAO...
That photo needs the caption.....
"There always after me Lucky Charms!"
.
17. Tatiana - September 14, 2007 1:01 PM
WTF? Something tells me this guy is NOT homeless.
18. kilgoretrout - September 14, 2007 1:01 PM
Those quotes leave out the biggest part, Farrell also bought him a condo for one year. It's in the Toronto Sun article.
19. FRIST!!! - September 14, 2007 1:01 PM
OMG #16 funny
20. The press is retarded - September 14, 2007 1:03 PM
Funny how the press can't get anything right!
It was actually David Mott the Manager of the store that is taking the bike trip. Some dum dum reporter got the story mixed up.
Colin got the guy an apartment and clothes...and no one even knew about it. The homeless guys in Toronto have all been talking about it, and a reporter that talks to them about the stars during Film Festival found out.
I love bashing celebrities as much as the next person but get the story straight!
21. heather - September 14, 2007 1:03 PM
You idiot...the homeless person isn't taking a bike around Ireland, a guy quoted in the article is.
22. Mike - September 14, 2007 1:06 PM
he seems to have friends regardless of their personal status. a local (formerly) homeless guy I know in my neighborhood used to work on his motorcycles...Farrell would come out to say hello and shoot the shit with him sometimes. seems to actually be a decent guy...who knew.
23. jrzmommy - September 14, 2007 1:08 PM
No, Heather...YOU idiot...............Staff helped the homeless man, known as Stress.......Now Stress reportedly plans to take a bike trip around Farrell's native Ireland.
You musta really aced the SATs in reading comprehension.
24. jrzmommy - September 14, 2007 1:09 PM
but I digress..............he should hop on the bandwagon and just adopt the dude.
25. Stink - September 14, 2007 1:09 PM
WTF? A prego has been, Larry Nobody, Kid Cock and this who cares story? No pics of tits today is a bad day for the superficial!!!!!
26. GB - September 14, 2007 1:10 PM
Dude,
This is the funniest thing you have ever written!!!!! Thank you, I'm in tears!!!!!!!!!!
27. bottlesandcansjustclapyourhands - September 14, 2007 1:14 PM
how'd he find him years later? How is anyone homeless in a socialist nation?
28. jonny - September 14, 2007 1:15 PM
jrzmommy,
Wrong. The store manager is taking the trip. This has been reported all over the net. Whoever wrote the article got it wrong.
Oh, wait. Fist yourself.
29. Randy Swisher - September 14, 2007 1:16 PM
Turns out the homeless dude has 5 hot sisters. So there you go.
30. Jimbo - September 14, 2007 1:18 PM
Who is this homeless dude in the picture?
31. Miggs - September 14, 2007 1:18 PM
Nice picture. I think that's when Colin was on a talk show and they showed him a picture of Stress masturbating to all the pictures of Colin that he had plastered on the walls of his new condo.
32. jrzmommy - September 14, 2007 1:18 PM
Hey jonny...why don't you show me how, cocksucker.
33. Conan O'Brien - September 14, 2007 1:19 PM
"Colin, please help me welcome our very special guest, Amy Winehouse!"
34. BunnyButt - September 14, 2007 1:22 PM
At least in this pic, Colin's looking a lot like the scary homeless guy living in the park near my apartment, so clearly Colin's able to identify with the homeless on multiple levels.
But, seriously, nice of Colin to help out someone in need, even if Colin is a disease ridden ho.
35. Andy Stitzer - September 14, 2007 1:23 PM
Good lord, everybody's got the bike part wrong. The store manager is a gay virgin, and when he saw Colin he said "I hope you have a big trunk... because I'm puttin' my bike in it."
36. fixed - September 14, 2007 1:30 PM
"Now Stress reportedly plans to take a bike trip around Farrell's native Ireland, begging for whiskey."
37. jonny - September 14, 2007 1:33 PM
jizmommy,
Just be a man, admit you were wrong, and get on with your life. Don't EVER post here again.
38. hello..... - September 14, 2007 1:34 PM
you have your story wrong. it's not the homeless guy who's planning the bike trip, it's the manager of the store where the gear was purchased.
get your facts straight if you're gonna make fun of the guy.
39. FRIST!!! - September 14, 2007 1:36 PM
#38 Look above you
40. Al Zimers - September 14, 2007 1:37 PM
It wasn't that Stress dude, it was the store manager dude who talked about the bike trip. I can't believe nobody has noticed this error yet.
41. jrzmommy - September 14, 2007 1:37 PM
OOOOH---it's Jonny the Superficial Crowd Police......okay, half a mea culpa as I wasn't there and can only go on what I read......so, yeah, mea culpa, but you're still a cunt and there's no one to blame for that but yourself.
42. SKEET SKEET SKEET!!! - September 14, 2007 1:38 PM
#39 Look straight ahead, eyes and mouth open
43. jonny - September 14, 2007 1:40 PM
Never mind all that shit. Has anyone noticed he said it was the bum who is going on the bike trip, when it's actually the store manager?
44. joLIE - September 14, 2007 1:41 PM
Media whore. he must have caught the 'fake chairty to make yourself look good' bug from Jolie.
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45. jonny - September 14, 2007 1:42 PM
Jizmonkey,
I told you not to post here. I can see reading isn't your strong point, but it's not like there were a lot of long words.
46. bottlesandcansjustclapyourhands - September 14, 2007 1:42 PM
OMG! PANIC!!! It wasn't the homeless guy! AHHHHHH--RUN! RUN! Someone misreported the story! DEAR GOD, SAVE US! HIDE YOUR CHILDREN! THE SKY IS FALLING! HELP! HELP!
Bunch of overreacting fucking faggots
47. Shut Up - September 14, 2007 1:42 PM
This is old shit.
48. jrzmommy - September 14, 2007 1:43 PM
Jonny--did you say that in your best John Wayne voice? Because I picture some 98 lb. weakling dressed in his mother's girdle and a ten gallon hat saying in his BEST John Wayne voice, I told you not to post here, pilgrim......
49. mrs. apotheosis - September 14, 2007 1:45 PM
hi. my husband Brandon posts on the superficial forums as "apotheosis". I have a new blog about his online romantic and sexual relationships with female posters.
http://mrsapotheosis.wordpress.com/page/2/
50. Momento - September 14, 2007 1:46 PM
Something about the store manager...what day is it? Where am I? Who are you people?!
51. lambman - September 14, 2007 1:46 PM
Awesome! I like Colin he may be a second rate actor, but he's a first class drunk!
52. yukadoozer - September 14, 2007 1:46 PM
THIS? Is what we get ona Friday??? This Caveman? Dig deep, Fish.
53. Jimbo - September 14, 2007 1:49 PM
@38 Hello Dumb Shit!!!. Stree is the homeless dude. Lear how to read before you rip on others
"Now Stress reportedly plans to take a bike trip around Farrell's native Ireland."
WTC!!!
54. JeffL - September 14, 2007 1:50 PM
Well, regardless of your social status, when you do so much coke and booze that you spend the night in an alley somewhere, of course you're going to start making friends with bums.
55. Jimbo - September 14, 2007 1:51 PM
And I will learn how to type!!!! Fucking key board
56. jonny - September 14, 2007 1:51 PM
Jizguzzler,
You obviously have some problem with authority.
We don't like banning people round here, but sometimes people are just so dumb there's no alternative.
57. Lil Princess - September 14, 2007 1:52 PM
i heard this on the radio as i was driving to work this morning... but it said Colin paid for a room for a year for the homeless man at the hotel where colin was staying.
ok ok. enough with the homeless man... HEY COLIN, i need some help with my car payment... i've got $9000 more to go and it will be paid off... c'mon!!
58. dr phil - September 14, 2007 1:52 PM
From mrsapotheosis' blog:
"I’m a normal housewife and recently found out about my husband’s online affairs. my husband Brandon, or should I say “apotheosis”, is a regular poster on The Superficial Forums. he’s been posting there daily for the past few years. I knew about it, and thought it took away from our time together, but I also knew he needed his own private little niche in life, so I let him have it."
"his own private little niche"
"so I let him have it"
Diagnosis: you're an overbearing henpecking castrating bitch, lady.
59. Texas Tranny - September 14, 2007 1:54 PM
I recommend that we all "start making friends with bums".
Tee hee.
60. Texas Tranny - September 14, 2007 1:58 PM
Jrzymommy.........98 lb. weakling dressed in his mother's girdle and a ten gallon hat.........................
That's how I started.
Tee Hee
61. Lil Princess - September 14, 2007 2:03 PM
why is everyone so crabby... so the story may or may not be wrong... but really... who gives a fuck.
SUPERFISH... give us something new... we dont like this post and we are taking it out on each other.
62. jrzmommy - September 14, 2007 2:04 PM
"but sometimes people are just so dumb there's no alternative."
Dumb....as in, like.......... reporting a misreported story, Jonny? HAHAHA! Go for it....fucking ban me! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!
63. Lil Princess - September 14, 2007 2:04 PM
sorry mrs apotheosis never seen any of his posts. you LIAR!
64. eeks - September 14, 2007 2:06 PM
He fucking sucks.
Who cares?
I gave someone $1 the other day....
That's about the same percentage of my income as he shared with this dude.
Why does he get wings over it?
$5,000 to a celeb is pennies.
They SHOULD be parting with way more than that just to be considered fucking HUMAN.
65. bottlesandcansjustclapyourhands - September 14, 2007 2:07 PM
Jrz has a problem with authority? That's great coming from some schmuck who pretends he's the moderator of the Fish......
66. jrzmommy - September 14, 2007 2:07 PM
OK, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be rude. Please don't ban me, this is my life, man. :(
67. jonny - September 14, 2007 2:09 PM
Bottlesandcans,
You are risking disciplinary action yourself. Stay out of other people arguments.
You will not be warned again.
68. jonny - September 14, 2007 2:09 PM
I really am 98 lb. weakling. Dammit.........and I'm full of impotent rage.....It's hard being pushed around all day.....man, I'm a limp-wristed, lily-livered simp of a human being.
69. bottlesandcansjustclapyourhands - September 14, 2007 2:10 PM
Slight superiority complex, there, Jonny?
70. therealjonny - September 14, 2007 2:12 PM
jrzfanny,
Hey, I see what you did there!
lolz111111one1!!!eleven!!!!
71. Faggot - September 14, 2007 2:13 PM
Old news olds news, who cares? who cares?
Whooooooooooooooo CARES!!!
F uck you Colin Farrell
F uck you Superficial
F uck ME!
72. bonny - September 14, 2007 2:39 PM
Look, get your fact straight - first Colin fucked the homeless guy, then the store manager, then the cashier, then the stockboy, then the 6 other customers, and then announced he was going to do a bike trip around Ireland to scour the isolated villages for the 17 remaining Irish girls he hasn't fucked yet.
73. jonny - September 14, 2007 2:56 PM
I apologize to all the normal posters here, but I have had to ban both Jrzmommy and bottlesandcansjustclapyourhands for disruptive behaviour.
Any further posts made in their names can be disregarded as fake.
We sincerely apoligize for any offence they may have caused.
74. Quinn - September 14, 2007 2:59 PM
since when are the homeless people in Canada??
75. jrzmommy - September 14, 2007 3:02 PM
yikes, I've been banned.
76. jrzmommy - September 14, 2007 3:03 PM
so have I.
77. jrzmommys - September 14, 2007 3:03 PM
Us, too!
78. Rmc - September 14, 2007 3:08 PM
since we allowed the indians off the reserve and let blacks in...thats when
79. Fawn - September 14, 2007 3:23 PM
you are on a ROLL today! by far the funniest day ever- nice work
80. Wicked Wendy - September 14, 2007 3:31 PM
@54-hehe..I agree..I also think Colin is actually learning about Karma and is trying to set himself up for when he is a homeless wino. B/c you know fucking nothing but leeches and bottom-feeders and the constant flow of drugs and alcohol t'ain't cheap! He'll get sucked dry...just wait..
81. Danklin24 - September 14, 2007 3:57 PM
Apparently Callon Farrel goes to the Avril Lavigne school of humanitarianism. Just handing stuff over to people less fortunate than than and sticking them back out on the street....brilliant.
82. jrzmommy - September 14, 2007 4:04 PM
Am I still banned?
83. lils - September 14, 2007 4:14 PM
Ok, he's good and all that, but why did you put a picture of Saddam Hussein?
84. kelli-danielley - September 14, 2007 4:36 PM
49. Ms. Apotheosis, I had only seen the occasional post-- since I teh smart, I know whtz the Apotheosis is-- (Augustus Ceasar, Jesus did it too).
Frankly, I think someone else is The LEIR. How about a Cut & Paste reveal?
Oh, are you cute?
85. CLAUDIA_DE_SCRATCH - September 14, 2007 4:43 PM
Why didn't he buy the homeless a HOUSE and then fill it with things??
86. Billy Club - September 14, 2007 5:34 PM
I think its possible to pay attention to the actual act of one human being helping out another. I know this may be a novel thought as there seems to be a lot of displaced anger in all the comments here but maybe the only thing that matters is Colin did something positive and maybe a continued trend amongst celebs would be a nice shift from all the negative press given to the mega-wealthy that are dying to be in the spotlight, be it in jail or otherwise (Paris) (Britney) (Nicole) (Lindsay). Lets just give a bit of credit where credit is due or are we so base in our humanity to need our celebs to be a reflection of our own toxic natures and shrug off a good deed as quickly as a druken tale of someone famous.
87. Pawel - September 14, 2007 5:36 PM
THAT HOMELESS MAN IS ACTUALLY A RECOVERING CRACK ADDICT AND THE LAST TIME FARREL GAVE HIM MONEY HE RELAPSED AND SPENT IT ALL ON CRACK
88. Billy Club - September 14, 2007 5:54 PM
"That man"? If u know for a fact that "That Man" is a crack addict then what is "That Man's" name, as you # 87 know he is a crack addict, obviously you have intimate knowledge of the man and would know his name, not the nickname "Stress" given to us through the media but his real name as I am assuming you would have to be from Toronto and would live in the vicinity of "That Man's" neighborhood.
89. cowgirl - September 14, 2007 7:09 PM
Cinnamelts Fish, at least give the guy some cinnamon and THEN send him on his way!
90. Hollywood Agent - September 14, 2007 7:32 PM
Colin must have slept with the homeless guy and gave him Aids, so now he feels guilty and is trying to pay the dude off. Either that, or the guy has a sex video of both of them "doing it " in some public toilet.
91. spoofy mcgillicutty - September 15, 2007 12:41 AM
I just want to punch him in the face, repeatedly. Blowhard elitist. just trying to "Give Back", Im sure.
92. spoofy mcgillicutty - September 15, 2007 12:47 AM
I mean, good on you Colin, you really are just a regular bloke afterall.
93. blah - September 15, 2007 8:00 AM
get the story straight -
colin also paid a year of rent for his apartment.
also - colin has been doing charitable work for a long while - but unlike the media-whore angelina, keeps it on the down low.
94. goggles - September 15, 2007 10:25 AM
if by "bike trip," we mean "gnarly drug-induced week-long binge trip," then our friend Stress is definitely taking a bike trip.
95. amanda - September 15, 2007 2:11 PM
I'm from toronto and all of the papers that covered that here said that Colin actually took the money out to go and pay rent on an appartment for the homeless man for a year. There was nothing said about a bike trip at all. Ridiculous. That was a pretty cool thing he did. Last time he was in toronto he helped the homeless out as well. Just a nice gesture, plain and simple.
96. overbearingbitch - September 15, 2007 4:02 PM
@58?Really overbearing bitches let their husbands have autonomy and independence and TRUST those motherfuckers! I am such a bitch!
97. glen mccoy - September 17, 2007 9:01 AM
lol, rofl, omg, i hate those swedish. anyway, how is this homeless dude gonna wash his socks? i mean he's like lacking a home or somethin'. i'm not from the united states of america, so my english is so very bad.
98. andy summers - September 18, 2007 5:55 AM
Well that’s a lot of kind generosity and heart from the guy.
99. MBT - September 22, 2007 3:29 AM
HE IS SO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SEXY AND HOT.
I NEVER SEEN ANY MOVIE STAR WITH THAT MUCH CHARM AND CHARISMA
I AM IN LOVE WITH HIM