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Related: About this forumColorado Boy Asks Nation Not To Find His Missing Little Brother
Truly a heroic kid
An Onion video
MADem
(135,425 posts)I can't imagine how anyone who has a relative missing would react to this post, particularly since it is presented in such an ambiguous way--designed to fool the reader into clicking on the video.
I should think they'd find it hurtful and distressing.
I didn't think it was funny at all. Not even clever.
The ONION often has hits, this, though, is a huge miss.
MADem
(135,425 posts)I may be over-reacting based on my own personal circumstances; I just think this is terribly insensitive.
efhmc
(14,735 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)More like one of those awful Onion-wannabee sites...
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,926 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)And it's impossible to tell it's the Onion by the OP.
Whatever it is, it's a massive FAIL.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,926 posts)I just hope the OP and those who look at the thread realize it was intended as satire, even if it wasn't funny.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)We've seen what some kids can do these days. A big fail to the Onion.
iandhr
(6,852 posts)... but even they can be wildly off base sometime.
JI7
(89,281 posts)if they had done it different and made it something like a kid participating in some talent show and the sibling telling people not to vote for them i could see it maybe working.
drynberg
(1,648 posts)In one word: SICK