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12-12-2016, 01:31 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Backwoods, SC
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Good job, "Santa"...
This deserves it's own thread and not to be lost in the random thoughts one.
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12-12-2016, 01:50 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Not Delaware - hurray!
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Saw this earlier. Unreal. Can't even imagine.
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12-12-2016, 01:51 PM
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College Starter
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: La Mirada, CA
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NSFW. I mean, onions, man. Those damn onions. In front of all the coworkers.
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12-12-2016, 01:59 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Kansas City, MO
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Along the same lines. Really nice gesture by this Best Buy crew.
Best Buy employees buy Wii U for kid who visited it daily | fox4kc.com |
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12-12-2016, 02:15 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: the yo'
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I thought this was about the McDonalds Goatse cup.
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12-12-2016, 09:11 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Seven miles up
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Straight up big man tears. damn.
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12-14-2016, 12:15 PM
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Resident Alien
Join Date: Jun 2001
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5-Year-Old Boy Dies in Santa's Arms : snopes.com
Sounds like the Santa story might have been a hoax. |
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12-14-2016, 12:39 PM
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Backwoods, SC
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Why? Because the man in question wont tell the families name and location for other media members to harass a grieving family?
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12-14-2016, 12:53 PM
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Resident Alien
Join Date: Jun 2001
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Because no hospitals in the area have a record of it?
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12-14-2016, 01:21 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Earth, the semi-final frontier.
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Do they not have a record of it, or are they keeping it quiet at the request of the families? This seems like a really petty thing to try and snopes. |
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12-14-2016, 01:47 PM
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Backwoods, SC
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I'm not even sure I follow the logic.
A dear friend of ours is in ICU currently. I visited this past weekend. There is no official log I visited them. Call every hospital in Charlotte and ask if CU Tiger visited...none will say yes. None will tell you if they had a child die in ICU either....Hippa laws and such |
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12-14-2016, 02:10 PM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Pacific
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I so want to call every hospital in Charlotte and ask if CU Tiger visited.
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12-14-2016, 02:16 PM
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Death Herald
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Le stelle la notte sono grandi e luminose nel cuore profondo del Texas
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The aren't saying it didn't happen, they are just saying the story is unconfirmed.
As for it being petty, I'd point to this from the Snopes page: Quote:
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12-14-2016, 02:58 PM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: North Carolina
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Yeah, I saw this as more of an example of how quickly things spread that we want to be true, with no regard for whether they are true or not.
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12-14-2016, 03:05 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2001
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FWIW, I didn't go looking for this. It showed up on Facebook because I liked Snopes there. |
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12-14-2016, 03:17 PM
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Backwoods, SC
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The Charlotte news ran an interview with the dude the other night...Im assuming first conducted by Knoxville affiliates...if he made it up Id think he would want to keep it kinda quieter and not blast his full name to the world....then again most who would do this sort of thing would decline the interview request so....who knows.
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12-14-2016, 03:28 PM
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: PDX
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This story is probably a good litmus test for cynical assholes, because when I read the story the part that most sticks out to me is the mom crying "No! Not now!" as her kid died in the arms of a stranger neither one of them had met before (and who immediately ran away afterwards?). The implicit suggestion that the kid (and his family, and we readers) was best served by dying in the hands of a mall Santa, talking about toys, leaves me feeling kind of gross.
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12-14-2016, 03:58 PM
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College Starter
Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Earth, the semi-final frontier.
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I was saying Snopes was being petty, not you. I really don't get why they would even investigate something like this. |
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12-14-2016, 04:30 PM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Nov 2003
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A massive +1 to this. Just didn't seem that believable to me. But I am absolutely a cynical asshole and I know it. |
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12-14-2016, 04:38 PM
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Death Herald
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Le stelle la notte sono grandi e luminose nel cuore profondo del Texas
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Isn't that their stock-in-trade? People send them in things they have questions about whether they are authentic or not, and they then do a bit of research and report on what they found?
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