Most people who pass a hungry person on the street choose to keep walking and feel no sense of responsibility to feed them, but Darrell Wyke is unlike most people.
The owner of Darrell Wyke Personal Training at the Signal Mountain Athletic Club said he was passing by a group of people with nothing to eat near Patten Towers downtown two years ago when he decided he would be the one to stop and take notice of those who most people choose to ignore.
“For the first time in my life, I didn’t look to other people,” said Wyke. “It fell upon me, and the question was posed to me: ‘Why don’t you do something?'”
He said he went to KFC and bought 10 meals, which soon turned into 20 meals and later 40 as he returned to the spot to give away more free food every Saturday thereafter.
David and Darrel Wyke, from left, of Darrell Wyke Personal Training at Signal Mountain Athletic Club, hand out hope for the hungry in the form of caring words and 120 McDonald’s cheeseburgers downtown every Saturday.The crowd eventually became so large that he switched from KFC meals to McDonald’s cheeseburgers, 120 of which he now distributes on a weekly basis.