A good Samaritan who was determined to help an elderly man he saw struggling with his task of selling ice cream has raised more than $115,000 (NZ$156,000) in two days.
Joel Cervantes Macias spotted the man hunched over his trolley on a street in Chicago. The ice-cream-seller, Fidencio Sanchez, is 89 years old and makes around $50 (NZ$68) a day.
Macias stopped his car and bought 20 paletas, or ice lollies, from Mr Sanchez for $50 before driving away.
However, he kept thinking about the man and decided to set up a GoFundMe page, so people could donate and help the stricken family.
It later transpired that the vendor had just lost his only daughter, and his wife had recently become ill.