A 4-year-old boy in Birmingham, Alabama, is a real-life superhero ― but his main foe isn’t Thanos; it’s homelessness.
Austin Perine has made an impact by walking around his hometown and elsewhere handing out food and money to residents who are homeless.
Little Austin does this wearing a red satin superhero cape, which he says makes him go faster because “it blows in the wind,” he told CNN.
Terance Perine, Austin’s father, said his son decided to help the homeless on a weekly basis after watching a show on Animal Planet in which a panda left her cubs alone.
“And I said, ‘Well, I guess it’s going to be homeless for a while,’” Perine told local station WPMI. “And he said, ‘Are people homeless?’ and I said, ‘Yeah, some of them.’ And he asked me to take him to see a homeless person.”
Father and son then bought food for some homeless people, and Austin enjoyed it so much that he made it a regular thing, spending his weekly allowance on food for people on the street.
Now Burger King has added to that sum by giving him $1,000 a month to spend on chicken sandwiches, according to CBS News.
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