Cleveland kidnap rescue hero Charles Ramsey has been offered free burgers for life from a slew of area restaurants.
Ramsey famously put down the Big Mac he was eating to aide and helped rescue kidnap victims Amanda Berry, Michelle Knight and Gina DeJesus. The girls had been held captive in a secluded home for more than a decade by alleged tormentor Ariel Castro.
"I heard screaming," Ramsey told The Washington Post of the May 6 episode. "I'm eating my McDonald's, I come outside, I see this girl going nuts trying to get out of her house. So I go on the porch and she says, 'Help me get out, I've been here a long time.'"
The auto-tuned version of the interview “Dead Giveaway,” gave rise to a whole new round of viral celebrity and made Ramsey the biggest local hero since LeBron James and The Decision.
Though McDonald’s has been slow to hop on the Ramsey bandwagon, more than a dozen other local eateries shave seen fit to honor him. “We want to honor our local hero with food,” Scott Kuhn, who operated four of the restaurants participating in the offer, told The Post." He stopped his meal midway through to help those women. We're now making sure he has other opportunities to go out and fully enjoy his burger."
Hodges, the restaurant where Ramsey works as a dishwasher, even launched the Ramsey Burger, a play on the Big Mac.
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