Some Guy Handed Out $100 Bills in Staten Island

Ever since Hurricane Sandy made thousands of people homeless in the New York area, people have been helping out in various ways, but Thursday's story about a self-described "Secret Santa" was the first we'd heard about someone just cruising around handing out cash. The rich Missourian went anonymously but not quietly, traveling around New Jersey and Staten Island Thursday with an entourage of cops who call themselves his "elves," and shoving $100 bills into people's hands. "A police motorcade with sirens took him across the borough," according to the AP, and along the way he handed out cash to people at food pantries and Salvation Army stores. Apparently this is a Kansas City thing. [link to nymag.com]