Elderly man with cancer calls 911 because he has no food

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- An 81-year-old North Carolina man spent months in the hospital being treated and rehabilitated after a cancer diagnosis.

WTVD reports that when Clarence Blackmon, who weighed 115 pounds, finally returned home he was hungry and opened an empty refrigerator. So, he called 911.

"I can't do anything," he told 911 operator Marilyn Hinson. "I can't go anywhere. I can't get out of my...chair."

Hinson told Blackmon they would bring him some groceries.

"He was hungry. I've been hungry. A lot of people can't say that, but I can, and I can't stand for anyone to be hungry," Hinson told WTVD.

Blackmon asked for cabbage, cans of beans and beets, popcorn, tomato juice and soft drinks.

Hinson went to the store herself and with the help of local police officers delivered them right to Blackmon's door. She even made him some sandwiches.

"It was like a little miracle ringing in my ear," Blackmon told WTVD. "I thought, 'Jesus, you answered those prayers'."