Busy, busy Dave Cochran is going to talk while he drives.
He’s tooling along Monday afternoon in his old Chevy Suburban, which just had new windows installed where he’d previously covered the openings with black plastic bags. And he’s talking on a cellphone that someone just set up for him.
Because strangers are suddenly doing many things for Dave, who has recently become a sensation in Kansas City as “the homeless Good Samaritan.” He’s also a recovering, convicted felon.
“I mind-boggled,” he says, contemplating the vast reaction to the story spread on social media that he had, without knowing who he was helping, gotten Kansas City Chiefs lineman Jeff Allen’s car unstuck from a snowbank Saturday as Allen was trying to get himself to Arrowhead Stadium for the Chiefs’ NFL playoff game against the Indianapolis Colts.