A Lake County community is stepping up to help a young man who had his e-bike stolen in Eustis. Dave Bush told WESH 2 that he’s been homeless and living on the street for about two weeks now. “I’m just trying my best, trying to get back up on my feet and trying to find a job,” Bush said. He said a friend gave him an e-bike to help him get around. “It gets me to where I’m supposed to be,” he said. “Sometimes I go to the open door for breakfast and showers. But I can’t get anywhere now because I don’t have my e-bike.”On Feb. 9, according to the Eustis Police report, the bike was stolen. “I was just sitting behind the racetrack, and I was just like, ‘OK, I’ll just sit here for five, 10 minutes. I didn’t think I would fall asleep,” Bush said.But he did.When he woke up, the bike was gone. “I walked inside asking them to pull the tapes, and they pull the tapes, and you can see the guy walk up,” Bush said. “He literally picked up the bike over me while I was sleeping and took off with it.” The police report says surveillance video shows a man with white hair and a white beard taking off with the bike.Before his bike was stolen, Bushhad posted his resume in a Facebook group looking for work, and it caught the attention of Martina Smith. “It kind of made my heart sink then,” she said. So when Bush made another post about the bike, she launched a fundraising page to help. “Seems like a good kid,” Smith said. “I have kids his age. I would hate to see them out on the street. I don’t understand how he got there, but I just want to help get him off.”Smith and others have been helping where they can. Someone even donated a bike. “I got a Walmart delivery last night,” Bush said of the bike’s arrival. While it helps, he’s still hopeful he’ll be able to get his e-bike back. “I hope everything that you took, the bags, that you bring everything back. Because that was the last of everything. Now I have to start all over again,” he said.
EUSTIS, Fla. —
A Lake County community is stepping up to help a young man who had his e-bike stolen in Eustis.
Dave Bush told WESH 2 that he’s been homeless and living on the street for about two weeks now.
“I’m just trying my best, trying to get back up on my feet and trying to find a job,” Bush said.
He said a friend gave him an e-bike to help him get around.
“It gets me to where I’m supposed to be,” he said. “Sometimes I go to the open door for breakfast and showers. But I can’t get anywhere now because I don’t have my e-bike.”
On Feb. 9, according to the Eustis Police report, the bike was stolen.
“I was just sitting behind the racetrack, and I was just like, ‘OK, I’ll just sit here for five, 10 minutes. I didn’t think I would fall asleep,” Bush said.
But he did.
When he woke up, the bike was gone.
“I walked inside asking them to pull the tapes, and they pull the tapes, and you can see the guy walk up,” Bush said. “He literally picked up the bike over me while I was sleeping and took off with it.”
The police report says surveillance video shows a man with white hair and a white beard taking off with the bike.
Before his bike was stolen, Bushhad posted his resume in a Facebook group looking for work, and it caught the attention of Martina Smith.
“It kind of made my heart sink then,” she said.
So when Bush made another post about the bike, she launched a fundraising page to help.
“Seems like a good kid,” Smith said. “I have kids his age. I would hate to see them out on the street. I don’t understand how he got there, but I just want to help get him off.”
Smith and others have been helping where they can. Someone even donated a bike.
“I got a Walmart delivery last night,” Bush said of the bike’s arrival.
While it helps, he’s still hopeful he’ll be able to get his e-bike back.
“I hope everything that you took, the bags, that you bring everything back. Because that was the last of everything. Now I have to start all over again,” he said.
