Charles Ramsey is saying no to burgers. The Cleveland man who was deemed a hero after rescuing three kidnapped women that went missing for a decade, doesn't want a reward. Not even free burgers for life.
Ramsey helped save Amanda Berry and her daughter, along with two other women who were being held captive by Ariel Castro.
After rescuing the women, Ramsey gave an interview in which he mentioned how he was eating McDonalds when he noticed Amanda Berry in trouble.
"I heard screaming," Ramsey told reporters after the rescue on May 6. "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.'
More than a dozen local restaurants decided to honor Ramsey by offering him free burgers for life.
In addition to this, Hodge's, a local restaurant where Ramsey worked as a dishwasher, honored him with his own eight-ounce, $12 burger called the "Ramsey Burger." However Ramsey wants no part of it and doesn't want burgers connected to his name, according to his lawyer. He would rather have people honor the victims, ABC reports.
"Ramsey also wants everyone to know that he does not endorse the consortium of Northeast Ohio restaurants who are offering 'Ramsey Burgers' or who are promoting that Ramsey can receive free burgers from them for life," Patricia Walker, an intellectual property lawyer, said in a statement. "Ramsey encourages people to do things that will help the victims."
"I never told these people they could use my name for this," Ramsey said in a statement.
In addition to this, Ramsey is disgusted by an online video game that appeared called Burger Bash. The game includes an animated Ramsey and accused kidnapper Ariel Castro throwing hamburgers to each other.
"I want everyone to know that I have nothing to do with this trash," Ramsey said.
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