Lamey said this is just the beginning of what she hopes is a long friendship between Carr and her family. “What came over him physically was supernatural. “I can’t imagine what kept him going,” Lamey said. Lamey said she has no idea how he had the energy for it. Everyone got along as if they were old friends, Carr and Lamey said.Īfter the move, Carr played basketball with the Lameys’ sons, ages 11, 13 and 16. The other two movers from Bellhop showed up shortly after, and the three of them moved the Lameys across town to their new house. I just started crying.”Ĭarr came to the door and Lamey offered him a bed to take a nap, and some food.Ĭarr replied, “ ‘No, I’d rather get started,’ ” Lamey said. He’s a great kid, he’s been walking all night to get to your house,’ ” Lamey said. “The officer told me, ‘I’ve got this nice kid in my car. That officer, identified by AL.com as Scott Duffey, drove Carr the last four miles to his job.Īt 6:30 a.m., Duffey walked up to the house where Carr was supposed to meet the other movers for the job, and explained to homeowner Jenny Lamey what had happened. So around 5:30, he started walking again.Ĭarr was walking on a two-lane road, and sure enough, a police officer came up and said he’d heard about him. Knighten had to leave because of a shift change, but he said another officer would be by in a few hours to check on Carr, and perhaps give him a ride to work.īut after Carr got to the church, he became concerned he might not make it on time. Knighten drove Carr a few miles toward his job and dropped him at a church, saying it was a safe place to be. At the urging of the officers, he ordered another one, he said. They went to Whataburger with some other officers, and Carr ordered a chicken biscuit. Knighten told him to get in the car, the meal was on him. I have no cash on me at all,’ ” Carr recalled. Knighten offered to take him to get something more in his stomach. The officer asked him when he last ate, and Carr told him about the bologna and eggs. It’s my first day in the job,’ ” Carr recalled. “I said, ‘This is crazy but I’m actually heading to work. Carr said yes, and explained what he was doing. “I decided I’d rest for a minute because my legs were killing me,” he said.Ī police car pulled up and the officer, identified by the news site AL.comas Mark Knighten, asked if Carr was all right. He was about to enter the highway ramp, the most direct route to the job. he reached Pelham, but he still had hours more to walk to get to the house. He’d had jobs in the past as a cook at fast-food restaurants, but this paid better, and he needed the money for an apartment he’d recently rented.Īt 2 a.m. “I was just thinking about my route, how I was going to get there in the time frame I needed to,” Carr said. When his legs began to burn, he stayed focused on his goal. On the trek, Carr had the route mapped out in his mind. “I went out walking.”Ī few hours in, he did come across a dog. “I’ve always been that person who figured things out on my own,” Carr said. At midnight, he woke up, grabbed his wallet, phone, a baseball and a kitchen knife to protect him from stray dogs. As a former high school cross-country runner, he knew he could do it in less.Ĭarr ate a meal of bologna and eggs at 8 p.m. He searched the route from his apartment in Homewood to the house in Pelham, and according to Google Maps, it would take eight hours on foot. “I sat there and I thought, ‘How can I get to my job? What streets would I walk through? How long would take me to get there?’ ” he said in an interview with The Washington Post. He mulled his predicament and concluded there was only one option: He would walk it. He struck out finding a ride, but he wasn’t about to miss his first day of work at a moving company called Bellhop. The college student’s car had broken down, and he was supposed to begin his new job as a mover the next morning - at a home 20 miles from his apartment near Birmingham, Ala. Walter Carr sent his friends a flurry of increasingly pleading text messages.
When his boss found out, he gave him a car.
An Alabama man walked almost 20 miles to his new job.
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