Putnam: gimme more blind old men

Chicago, ILLINOIS -- Buxom blonde Cherry Putnam is feeling good after having helped a blind old man cross the street yesterday at the height of Black Friday shopping madness.

The 22-year-old junior executive assistant said she was on her mobile phone when she noticed the noticeably blind old man about to attempt to cross the very busy Michigan Avenue on a red light.

When it became clear that no one was going to assist the man, Putnam said she had no choice but to hang up on her best friend Daphne, who was pouring her heart out over a failed two-week-old relationship.

"Like, I totally don't hang up on my friends and stuff just like that," Putnam said. "But I just had to help that poor old man. I just hope Daphne doesn't take me off her Christmas card list this year."

The old man was reportedly very grateful for Putnam's assistance. Although he couldn't be reached for comment, street sources report he is "safe at home enjoying a Metamucil drink and reading the latest issue of The Braille Monitor."

Putnam said she works in the area and was on her way home from a bit of after-Thanksgiving shopping when she encountered the man. She said she got some "pretty good" deals this year, including the latest Britney Spears CD, "Blackout," which she bought for 99 cents from a street vendor.

"All my friends paid, like, 15 bucks for it. Suckers!" said Putnam.

"Blackout," Britney Spears' fifth studio album, has fallen out of the Top 20 of the Billboard 200 album chart less than a month after its release.