NEW RIDE. THANKS TO A GENEROUS DONATION. YEAH A FEW WEEKS AGO. WE BROUGHT YOU MATT’S STORY. MATT HAS DOWN SYNDROME AND FOR 10 YEARS. HIS GOLF CART WAS HIS WAY TO GET TO WORK. WELL, THAT’S UNTIL IT WAS STOLEN LAST MONTH FROM HIS HOME NEAR MEMORIAL PARK WHEN BMK GOLF CARTS A COMPANY DOWN IN FLORIDA HEARD ABOUT THE CRIME. THEY SENT MA ATTHINY S RIDE AND KETV NEWSWATCH SEVENS JOEY SAVCHIK WAS THERE WHEN IT ARRIVED. THERE IS TAKING THE HIGH RDOA AND THEN THERE’S TRAVELING SOME 1500 MILES. SO THIS MAN MATT GIBBONS CAN GET BACK BINDEH THE WHEEL WHEN THIS TRUCK PULLS OFF MTAT GIBNSBO CAN’T BELIEVE HIS EYES. I SEE A CAR. OUR GOLF CART IS HERE THE 40 YEAR OLD WITH DOWN SYNDROME. JUST CAN’T CONTAINIS H JOY. THIS IS A COOL CAR. HE LOVES BEING IN THE DRIVER’S SEAT. AND FOR 10 YEARS. HE GOT AROUND IN HIS TRUSTY GOLF CART, BUT LAST MONTH IT WAS STOLEN AND WHIT IT HIS SENSE OF INDEPENDENCE AND THIISS AMAZING A LOT, BUT HE’LL HAVE TO MISS IT NO MORE. HE MORE. HOLDS THE KEYS TO A BRAND NEW ONE A DONATION FROM BMK GOLF. ARTS DELIVERED ALL THE WAY FROM FLORIDA. WENT AHEAD AND PUT MATT’’ RIGHT ON THE FRONT SO THAT IT LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE HIS THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND THIS GIFT PURE KINDNESS. IT KIND OF MADE US FEEL THAT WE SHOULD GIVE HIM SOMETHING THAT WOULD MAKE HIMAP HPY AGAINND A FEEL INDEPENDENT AND HAPPY HE IS. OH HATEFUL TO SEE HIM SMILINGN I HIS SMOOTH RE OIDVERCOMING A REAL BUMP IN THE ROAD. I’M SPEECHLESS REALLY, YOU KNOW. MOSTLY ALL WE HEAR IS BAD NEWS, BUT NOT ON THIS SUNNY MORNING WHEN ONE STRANGER IS GOOD DEED REFLECTS THE JOY, WE CAN GIFT TO ONE ANOTHER. THANKOU Y VERY MUCH ELIZABETH PEOPLE TO EVERYTHING. JUST AWESOME AND AFTER HE TAKES US FOR A SPIN MATT HITS THE ROAD OFF TO WKOR AND ON CLOUD 9, JOEY SAFCHICK KATV NEWS WATCH 7. SO GLAD TO SEE MATT IS BACK ON THE MOVE THERE. IT’S LEGAL FOR HIM TO DRIVE HIS GOLF CART
‘Driving this thing is awesome’: Company donates golf cart to man with Down syndrome, after his was stolen
Matt Gibbons’ golf cart was stolen in May. A company some 1,500 miles away heard about the crime — and knew they could help.
When Matt Gibbons looked out his window Friday morning, he could not believe his eyes. A flatbed truck loaded with a shiny gold golf cart pulled up in front of his house. “I see the cart! My own golf cart is here,” Gibbons said. At the end of May, KETV brought you the story of the man with Down syndrome whose golf cart was stolen, and with it, 40-year-old Gibbons’ independence.A golf cart company in Florida heard about the crime, and gifted Matt a brand new, street-legal golf cart. KETV Newswatch 7 was there when the golf cart arrived and even got to go for a spin with Gibbons. “Driving this thing is awesome,” said Gibbons, who uses the golf cart to get to work and explore his neighborhood on his own. “I love it!”
When Matt Gibbons looked out his window Friday morning, he could not believe his eyes. A flatbed truck loaded with a shiny gold golf cart pulled up in front of his house.
“I see the cart! My own golf cart is here,” Gibbons said.
At the end of May, KETV brought you the story of the man with Down syndrome whose golf cart was stolen, and with it, 40-year-old Gibbons’ independence.
A golf cart company in Florida heard about the crime, and gifted Matt a brand new, street-legal golf cart. KETV Newswatch 7 was there when the golf cart arrived and even got to go for a spin with Gibbons.
“Driving this thing is awesome,” said Gibbons, who uses the golf cart to get to work and explore his neighborhood on his own. “I love it!”
