Other hugely successful crowd-funding campaigns include over $ 5.4 million raised by Stephen Sutton , a teenager with incurable cancer who eventually passed away . A disabled pensioner from the north east of England was mugged and left with a broken collar bone . The man had been walking along a street in his home town when he was approached by two men who asked for money to buy drugs. Donations have surpassed £300K ( $ 452K ) and are growing , as well as offers to fit a kitchen and decorate his home .
A disabled pensioner from the north east of England was mugged and left with a broken collar bone . The man had been walking along a street in his home town when he was approached by two men who asked for money to buy drugs. Donations have surpassed £300K ( $ 452K ) and are growing , as well as offers to fit a kitchen and decorate his home .