Jay Withey Jr. is being called a hero after he helped other survive inside a school during the worst of the deadly Buffalo snowstorm. WNBC’s Adam Harding reports.
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This young man right here deserves the prestige honor given from the president highest honor. To young sir. Thank you for putting others lives before yours. There’s a special place in heaven for you
This is how all people should be to bad there’s more bad then good in this 🌎
Lots of empty rooms in Heaven.
What a heroic story .
Sad ,that it took a private citizen with little resources to save these lives.
Where were rescue crews and where do our tax dollars really go ?
I hope this inspires others to be independent thinkers and never rely on OUR selfish government.
Thank you!
OH JUST STOP IT! JC WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU THAT YOU CAN’T JUST FEEL BLESSED THAT THESE PEOPLE WALK AMONG US. ARE YOU GREG ABBOTT?
Rescue crews were doing what they could but couldn’t get through because of how bad the storms were. It’s a good story about a good man; please don’t ruin it by trashing others who are also brave and do good, important work.
Above and beyond, for sure. Kudos.
God bless 🙏❤️
Nice
God be with you 🌹 Jay, a little Effort and Care goes a Long ways. You are the example of the American Citizen during Christmas 🌲 Crisis , that All great men should be.
Good guy. Xx
GREAT JOB GOD BLESS YOU JAY ANDYOUR FAMILY TOO WHAT A CHRISTMAS YOU HAD.
Yessss! 👏🏽 For many it didn’t end well. Peace and blessings in abundance,Jay .
what kind of subhumans load the homeless on a bus, and drive them 1000s of miles only to dump them off in a freezing blizzard
A Man !! 😪😪
He still broke the law and should be prosecuted
You’re kidding right
THANKYOU KINDLY for exemplary conduct MORALLY and HUMANLY, FIRST responders training good conduct…. BJC TRULY needs for necessities
The Justice Department will probably want to charge this guy with a crime.😂
Instead of your gold flake meals and multi-Thousand dollar Chapstick bags, help a Dozen family’s avoid Starving or freezing during the holidays?
Big man’s watching, what do you want him to say to you when yal meet?
That’s amazing,my hat off to him for not just thinking about himself 👏..There are still good people in this world🙏💞
Wow, we need more people like him that cares about others besides himself.
This gives me hope
THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL STORY…GOD BLESS THIS MAN !
Joe BIDEN and kamala harris dont care
God Bless And Grace Your Beautiful, Precious Soul !!!! 🙏💗🙏💗🙏💗🙏💗
A-PRECIOUS-MEN 🙏💗🙏💗🙏💗🙏💗
Best Christmas Story. Jay, your humbleness and compassion have made you a hero, and those you help will always remember you with a smile in their face. God bless you and your family.
While I love what he did if he was Black, let’s be real, he would be “in trouble”….
Yep, gotta get race in there. I knew someone would eventually mention that unimportant fact SMH
O my freaking god,🖕
Only one man?
❤ Restoration of faith in humanity. Bless him.
“Very humbled. Very humbled.” What an amazing human being. I was beginning to wonder if there were any left
It’s such a blessing to see what good there still is in people. There’s so much negative news out there but this is proof that there is still good in a ruff world. As example,, just be thankful for what you have. Thank you Jay for bringing out the best of humanity.
I hope the school excuses it all and gives a generous, kind statement. It’s reasonable and right.
Than You Nicolle Wallace for having that abortion we are all proud of you.
Is that Kyle Rittenhouse?
Acording to the USA common law, it is legal to trespass, and even to break into a building, if it is necessary for immediate survival.
“We are Family”. That’s a song from the group “Sister Sledge”. Whether we like or not we are family indeed!
But looting THUGS though.
American Hero
“The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world”!
🙏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿🙏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿😪🥰😪🥰🔥🔥🔥💣🔥💣👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿🤗❤️🤗❤️
PLEASE Let Us Know What We Can Do For This Man And Family!!!..maybe help pay off his home mortgage!.or whatever!.we can do too HELP!!! HIM! 🤗👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
He Should Run For….MAYOR!!! 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👍🏿👍🏿🤗
Not a criminal he is a true hero
There still is good people out there that will rescue and help people this brings me to tears that people would do something like that that’s the most grateful thing that man did and may God bless him for what he did to help them people to survive a lot of people wouldn’t have done that they would have never thought about it may God bless him he’s a hero in my book amen
Prayers for the ones harmed by this weather 🙏🏽🙏🏽✨✨
It seems like record breaking weather is becoming the new normal, and more and more I’m beginning to see we are in the end times 🙏🏽
Matthew 24:7 (KJV) 💥 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. 💥
All we can do is turn to the Lord now, repent and begin walking in his laws and commandments. The ones written in Exodus and keep the faith in Jesus because he IS coming soon, to reign on this earth 🙏🏽🙏🏽
Turn away from the pagan ways of this society, the pagan holidays, customs and laws we keep. Seek the Lord early while he still may be found. Rest up and prepare because bigger and more destructive weather is coming like it has been for every year!
Peace to everyone and be safe in Jesus’ name! 🕊️✨🙌🏼
One of the REAL AND TRUE REASON TO BRAKE IN PRIVATE PROPERTY! YOU SAVED THEM “J” !!!! Young and smart and You’re different on good way ! This country and others needs people’s like You !
Fing hero 👍💯🙏
You did what god would do!
im surprised the town didnt use that as a shelter
God bless the beautiful United States 🇺🇸 🇺🇲 🙏
Good for him
Yea Buffalo!! Let’s go Buffalo!!
Good man
You are a real hero! Merry Christmas Jay!
Hero. God bless you sir!
What a sweet kind hearted man 🙏
Anyone reading this, for Jay to have gone back out in that shyt, is truly incredible. It was ridiculous.
What an heroic, nice. kind man. Even his note of apology showed his sterling character, “I am terribly sorry…”
breaking and entering lock him up
The city of good neighbors
If those ten people didn’t tell Jay no maybe he wouldnt of been able to save those other people. So glad this was a happy ending for them. He risked his own life to be a hero. God bless him 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
All the people that turned him down when he knocked on their door should all hang in shame and guilt. I’m so glad the humanity still exists and this man was able to rescue others despite fearing for his own life.Salute to him.
I would have no guilt whatsoever. Letting a random stranger into your house unannounced poses risks.
These are the kind of people that we need working in our law enforcement people who are not afraid to think and act at will in time of need
Smart, resourceful, brave, capable and caring. Jay, you rock! You saved lives! Can we clone you?
Also, the woman who saved the elderly man from freezing, and treated his frostbite. She was determined not to let him die. We need more people like this!
After hearing about nothing but the heartache, heartbreak, and devastation Buffalo and it’s surrounding area has experienced with this storm, this story made me cry a bit. A great lesson about humanity.♥
May God mightily bless you, Jay. 🙏🏽🌺
🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
A sigma guy:
Real Hero!!!
This is a wonderful story about a really decent guy. Glad to see him recognised for the good his actions did.
Turned away in snow storm is unthinkable. So many heartless Americans.
真實英雄版在紐約 ,聖誕上映!
What a remarkable young man! Jay, you’re the best! What I can’t believe is that numerous residents refused to offer shelter and help to those stranded!
Good for you buddy, I am humbled to know we still have good people who will go over and above to help others.
Dear Jay,
God placed it in your heart to help and bless all these people that night and you answered His call! Undoubtedly, you will be blessed in return!
That is my prayer for you. You are a beautiful person with a beautiful heart! ❤️
The only sad thing about this story is the ten homes that turned you away when you sought shelter. But God had a bigger plan for you!
I wish you all good things for your life!
Thank you 😊💗
These darn onions. God bless you Jay for saving those poor people
God bless you Jay. You allowed God to use you. Those persons who turned you away sent you to save lives.
It is a lesson to help others. God bless
Why didn’t he go to the house next door to the school ?
💕Why are they not telling the WHOLE story?🥺
Jay originally went out around 6pm because a friend of his was stranded and asked him to come help because the friend knew Jay would be the only one to go out in that weather to help. Of course due to the conditions, Jay got stuck and couldn’t get to his friend so Jay sat in his truck for a while until he saw a man walking in the snow wearing only a light jacket, and Jay asked him to come sit in his truck to stay warm. Eventually, Jay knew they needed to get out of his truck because he was afraid they wouldn’t survive through the night so Jay went to 10 HOUSEHOLDS and knocked on their doors begging them to let him, and the man he’d let sit in his car with him, to sleep on their floor for $500. Every single household told him, “No, I’m sorry” and turned them away. So Jay and the man stayed in his car until a woman knocked on his window a couple of hours later and asked if she could sit in his car and he let her and they stayed there for several hours until they had to move to the woman’s car because Jay’s truck started to run out of fuel. In the early morning hours the woman had to go the restroom and was too embarrassed to go outside the car so Jay looked on his phone and saw that there was a school literally ahead of them so they went there and that’s when Jay broke into the school. The alarm went off and he managed to turn it off and found mats in the gym for them to lay on and cereal and fruit from the cafeteria for them to eat.
Shortly after they arrived at the school, Jay found others that needed to be rescued and brought them inside. It ended up being about 20 people and 2 dogs he saved. After daylight, they used the leaf blowers from the janitors closets to blow the snow away from around their cars and by then the police was able to show up to the school to address the burglar alarm from the night before. Jay stayed at the school the whole day until about 8pm on Christmas to make sure everyone got home and he and all the strangers he rescued were in a group chat to communicate with each other to let each other know when they made it home safe. Jay also found out that the friend he’d originally left the house to help got rescued some time in the middle of the night.
What a beautiful story of the real meaning of Christmas. Although I was a bit peeved at first that he was denied help by the neighbors, I realize if he had, he wouldn’t have been able to save all 20 of those people and 2 dogs.
The flip side to this…I believe it was meant for those people doors he knocked on to not open their doors because it was divine intervention for him to be able to save lives of so many other people who was in need of help. He was in the right place at the right time to save other people. It’s a reason for everything. Something’s you may not understand at that particular moment. Joe is a heroic amazing man. God blessings to you Joe❣️
Jay is proof that God has not abandoned His Creation. And that God still loves His Creation.
Finally a person with brains!
Hope someone started a GoFundMe me for Jay
What a modest humble good man. May god fill his big and wonderful hearth whit blessings. What an inspiring story, what an stupendous example this is what Christmas is all about. Happy new year for everyone!
He’s a hero it’s a great story
Jay said he went to five homes offering them money and they would not let him in. God had a plan Jay. He needed you to save 24 lives. May God continue to bless you and your family.
This man deserves sainthood, at least. I’m thinking of going for sainthood too because I can do that thing with my elbow.
Sometimes you do what you have to do.
God shall bless this is the meaning of the Good Samaritan
Still a crime. If a homeless person did this during no storm, they would be arrested. Homeless people want shelter too. 🙄
If he was black/muslim/latino he would have been shot by police. Why do the kkkops arrest the looters? 😒 🤔
Nice job Jay💜
Just fate! If he hadn’t gotten turned away, ALL these people would have died. Definitely a miracle!❤❤
“…if there are charges, if I have to pay for a window or for food, I’m happy to face it.”
If that doesn’t tell you everything you need to know about his motivations in this “break in” haha
Seeing how nobody wants to pay taxes in the US, this school will run out of cereals and the window will never be fixed.
That’s an ALPHA MAN right there!!! #FREETATE
Does anybody know why these people didn’t know the storm was coming and they were out side during the storm was it a surprise storm?
ThankGod for this man bravery
Thank you Jay 💖🙏❤️ God bless you all
Reported in the news: Growing desperate, Jay Withey Jr. headed into a nearby neighborhood for help and knocked on the doors of several houses. He offered $500 to each home owner – asking if he could shelter from the storm — but was denied each time. Let’s be real and call it like it is: the people that refused him shelter had zero issues with sending him back into the storm and letting him die. Truth
BRAVO MEN OF GREAT COURAGE USUALLY ARE HUMBLE DONT THINK TO HIGH OR TO LITTLE OF THEMSELVES COMPASSIONATE
what an amazing young man! his parents must be proud.. I am proud of him and I don’t even know him..
I love him ❤️❤️❤️
Increasingly, Christianity is being attacked by militant leftist zealots.
They are attempting to replace Christianity, the bedrock of Western Civilization, with a poisonous, religion replacing, religion.
Here’s a prescient warning from the bible:
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits.”
The new racism, non-binary, the sexualizing children…
Now, consider the young man in upstate New York and reflect on the parable of the Good Samaritan.
This man had ventured out into a terrible winter storm to rescue a trapped friend.
The friend was rescued. Our hero – and yes, a true hero – was himself trapped.
He later gave shelter to another man and an elderly woman in his vehicle.
Running out of gas and justifiably fearing death, he knocked on about a dozen doors asking for shelter.
Each time he was turned away… The occupants had to know, this could easily be a death sentence.
Our hero, Jay Withey, noticed that there was a school nearby. He broke in, saving the lives of himself and his two companions.
He then went out and shepherded in others. No doubt, saving the lives of two dozen people, black and white.
This is no exaggeration. 39 people died in this storm…
In the morning, using the snow blower at the school, he freed trapped vehicles.
And Jay Withey? He describes himself as a religious man.
An accident or coincidence? Not a chance. He was following the message from that parable I mentioned.
I recall an excellent book on the Holocaust. (Sorry, it’s name has long since been forgotten.) At any rate, the historian notes, that yes, plenty of Christians turned their backs on the Jews.
But – and it’s an important but – of those who risked their lives to shelter Jews, Christians were the overwhelming majority.
Judaeo-Christian morality is at the centre of the Western World. Leftist ideology is attempting to undermine it.
As the experiments with Fascism and Communism demonstrate, the result is, inevitably, totalitarian horror.
Please check out my book “Deconstructing Social Justice”. This ideology is dangerous, perhaps more than you suspect.