I was reading through a couple of my favourite blogs this am, and came across this… MENTAL:

Its about How a 13-year old gained 16,000 fans on Facebook in 96 hours to help his grandfather, a decorated police officer of 19 years, was dying of stage 4 lung cancer.

Because of a loophole, his employer, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, had denied him benefits and cut his pension from $3000/month to $700/month. Officer Ludwig was forced to sell his home, declare bankruptcy, and live in the basement of one of his son’s homes.

Officer Ludwig passed away on August 10. The page now has 22,689 fans.

It looks like the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit official page was taken down. The community started creating Metro pages to comment on and leave images of the now deceased and his story.

Something that would have been a private or localized story, becomes a global conversation… This just shows you the power of Social Media…  Some have been calling it the “BP Moment” for US Metropol Organization …