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(WTAE Pittsburgh) Sappy Kid: Santa, I want my mom home from Iraq for Christmas. Mall Santa: Well, look who I happen to have in my sleigh   (wtae.com) divider line 96
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2011-12-20 02:05:18 PM
awww.....
the kid meets parent returning from iraq military service story will never, ever get old. and i will always find it dusty when i watch them.

/remember the spelling bee? that kid had me sobbing, she was so happy.
 
2011-12-20 02:07:37 PM
"Have a holly jolly Christmas, it's the dustiest time of year..."
 
2011-12-20 02:21:22 PM
kingoomieiii: "Have a holly jolly Christmas, it's the dustiest time of year..."

This should have been the headline. That said, I love stories like this. I personally think a green light is in order. +1
 
2011-12-20 02:21:51 PM
I might be a sucker for the war propaganda machine, but dammit, these things just get to me. If you don't get a little choked up, you have no heart.
 
2011-12-20 02:22:02 PM
talulahgosh: awww.....
the kid meets parent returning from iraq military service story will never, ever get old. and i will always find it dusty when i watch them.

/remember the spelling bee? that kid had me sobbing, she was so happy.


This.
 
2011-12-20 02:25:45 PM
talulahgosh: the kid meets parent returning from iraq military service story will never, ever get old.

But the stories will now. They don't have to happen again.
 
2011-12-20 02:29:43 PM
This is the one I can't watch without waterworks. Gets me every single time... Link (new window)
 
2011-12-20 02:44:15 PM
What was she doing in Santa's sleigh crouched down in a way you couldn't see her, hmmm
 
2011-12-20 02:50:21 PM
jonjr215: This is the one I can't watch without waterworks. Gets me every single time... Link (new window)

it's the music....and the video of course.
 
2011-12-20 03:06:58 PM
Hey, I used to visit Santa at this very mall!

Awesome.
 
2011-12-20 03:14:24 PM
sorry kids, your mom wasn't in iraq these past few years, she's been santa's sex slave this whole time
 
2011-12-20 03:34:11 PM
Awesome. And I love those videos. But whoever edited that needs to be shot.

You don't show the "big reveal", THEN show the setup, AND have the douchey reporter speaking over it. These things are much better when they show it in the proper order, with just the moving audio.
 
2011-12-20 03:34:40 PM
Aaww, reminds me of all those stories about former Guantanamo Bay prisoners being reunited with their families on the last day of Ramadan.
 
2011-12-20 03:35:07 PM
Dead for Tax Reasons: sorry kids, your mom wasn't in iraq these past few years, she's been santa's sex slave this whole time

Now that's a videotaped reveal I'd watch.
 
2011-12-20 03:35:13 PM
Santa, I want my mom home from Iraq for Christmas. Mall Santa: Well, look who I happen to have in my sleigh

"Here she is!... I think I have her legs in this bagYES! Here they are! They couldn't find the other arm, but we're still looking."

/Santa's sleigh hit an IED
 
2011-12-20 03:36:38 PM
Well, that'll make 'em believe in Santa for the rest of their lives
 
2011-12-20 03:36:39 PM
Next time, MSM, limit yourself to attractive people in your glurge pieces. It dulls the brilliance of the moment when ugly people live happily ever after.
 
2011-12-20 03:37:38 PM
The kids were not old enough to recognize her. The infant especially.

/Time line does not work?
 
2011-12-20 03:38:17 PM
I remember when I was a kid reading the letters to Santa in the paper, every year there were the usual suspects "I want a new bike" "Barbie" etc. but the area where I lived also had a lot of crime so inevitably there would always be "I just want my dad to come home from prison" I guess I never really thought that hard about it then but now that I am older thats some funny shiat right there!

/Not really
//Didnt see it comin did you?
 
2011-12-20 03:44:34 PM
GAT_00: talulahgosh: the kid meets parent returning from iraq military service story will never, ever get old.

But the stories will now. They don't have to happen again.


Nah. Give it a few months. There are always people somewhere who need to be invaded and/or "liberated".
 
2011-12-20 03:45:35 PM
I bet the dad wishes those kids were his and not the result of an invigorating night of the mom being banged by the rest of her squad
 
2011-12-20 03:45:41 PM
Dead for Tax Reasons: sorry kids, your mom wasn't in iraq these past few years, she's been santa's sex slave this whole time

Maybe not Santa's, but someone's sex slave. I had about 30 females in my company of around 120 soldiers, and I know of 2 who weren't getting stuffed in Afghanistan. Most were married. Military chicks(and guys for that matter) are total whores.
 
2011-12-20 03:45:48 PM
jonjr215: This is the one I can't watch without waterworks. Gets me every single time... Link (new window)

In my head, 'Can't make me sob like the one kid's dad showing up in his classroom' aaaand of course that's the video, and yep, still packs a wallop and a half.

My father joined the military because it was the only option he felt like he had as a young man in a rural community once upon a time. Minus the cameras, I can remember being this kid. And I can remember being this kid's classmate in a class full of military kids, where for just a moment we all looked past him in the wildly desperate hope that his daddy wouldn't be the only one. (This was yonks ago, it was all dads missing in my class at least.)
 
2011-12-20 03:47:11 PM
I'm such a sucker for these surprise reunion videos.
 
2011-12-20 03:47:26 PM
Dawn McCracken

What time does she wake up?
 
2011-12-20 03:48:30 PM
spentmiles: Aaww, reminds me of all those stories about former Guantanamo Bay prisoners being reunited with their families on the last day of Ramadan.

Hmmm... everyone might be onto you this time around. But then again, you might get a couple - there's still plenty o' stupid out there...
 
2011-12-20 03:49:06 PM
its dusty in here.
 
2011-12-20 03:52:41 PM
Lifting a beer right now for those that did not make it home.
Thank you all so much for my (and our) freedom!

/a dusty beer at that!
 
2011-12-20 03:53:46 PM
I do enjoy me a good homecoming video.

/Well that and a Bukkake video
 
2011-12-20 03:54:00 PM
taurusowner: Military chicks(and guys for that matter) are total whores.

Truer words have never been spoken.
 
2011-12-20 03:58:20 PM
URAPNIS: taurusowner: Military chicks(and guys for that matter) are total whores.

Truer words have never been spoken.


Whores, you mean like trolls?
 
2011-12-20 03:58:29 PM
santa: RELEASE THE McCRACKEN!!
 
2011-12-20 03:58:59 PM
And Seal Was there also,,,
 
2011-12-20 03:59:09 PM
Ben Enya: I do enjoy me a good homecoming video.

/Well that and a Bukkake video


Homecoming bukkake?

Probably not suitable for kids, though.
 
2011-12-20 04:00:01 PM
URAPNIS: taurusowner: Military chicks(and guys for that matter) are total whores.

Truer words have never been spoken.


NONSENSE!!! Why about 16 years ago we got female support personnel in our battalions and they were moral oak trees. Not even that stalker medic who would come into my room in Korea and try to break apart my marriage. She never openly stated "Your wife is 3000 miles away she will never know" NEVER! Not to mention she never slept with a ton of dudes in my company before she came after me.

/If you want to see whores in action Gateway club Camp Casey Korea
//No joking there
///Queen for a year
 
2011-12-20 04:00:16 PM
Andromeda: Hey, I used to visit Santa at this very mall!

Awesome.


That mall opened up in 2001. I doubt you're 15ish. If you are, congrats on that PhD!
 
2011-12-20 04:00:16 PM
ritalinchild 54: The kids were not old enough to recognize her. The infant especially.

/Time line does not work?


The kids saw her all the time on video chat. Was watching the video too much for you?
 
2011-12-20 04:00:42 PM
GAT_00: talulahgosh: the kid meets parent returning from iraq military service story will never, ever get old.

But the stories will now. They don't have to happen again.


Why, do we have world peace now?
 
2011-12-20 04:00:51 PM
talulahgosh: awww.....
the kid meets parent returning from iraq military service story will never, ever get old. and i will always find it dusty when i watch them.

/remember the spelling bee? that kid had me sobbing, she was so happy.


Hmmm...I don't think I remember that one. Can someone spare a link?
 
2011-12-20 04:00:52 PM
This one still gets me.
 
2011-12-20 04:01:47 PM
URAPNIS: taurusowner: Military chicks(and guys for that matter) are total whores.

Truer words have never been spoken.


So are cops, firemen and paramedics. High-stress service jobs.

Before we got married, my wife was a paramedic. She says that EMS stands for "Extra-Marital Sex".
 
2011-12-20 04:02:31 PM
URAPNIS: taurusowner: Military chicks(and guys for that matter) are total whores.

Truer words have never been spoken.


This. I don't know of one female I served with in the navy that wasn't a whore.

/yet I still didn't get any.
 
2011-12-20 04:02:40 PM
That's awesome.
 
2011-12-20 04:03:05 PM
Guess your mom showing up is a lot better than the unexploded cluster bombs they leave for the kids in iraq. Yay a prese...BOOM!
 
2011-12-20 04:04:51 PM
wildstarr: talulahgosh: awww.....
the kid meets parent returning from iraq military service story will never, ever get old. and i will always find it dusty when i watch them.

/remember the spelling bee? that kid had me sobbing, she was so happy.

Hmmm...I don't think I remember that one. Can someone spare a link?


And lo, I share the joy. :) (new window)
 
2011-12-20 04:05:17 PM
Phoenix_M: GAT_00: talulahgosh: the kid meets parent returning from iraq military service story will never, ever get old.

But the stories will now. They don't have to happen again.

Why, do we have world peace now?


That comment was specific to Iraq military service.
 
2011-12-20 04:07:49 PM
Went to the Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) show in Washington DC last year and he was doing "The Wall" Tour. He was doing a particularly emotional version of 'Vera, Bring the Boys Back Home' and he slipped this little bit into his video... Now, I'll admit to being about as high as a Georgia pine, but I blubbered like a three year old.... so the next time one of the regular Farksticks on here starts droning on about how the 'dirty hippies hate the troops" or "don't love America" ...listen to the applause coming from the crowd when these kids are reunited with their returning military service parents somebody say 'Dusty'? (pops like a tissue)

Didn't know that Roger had lost his father in WWII. Prior to taking this show on the road, He had invited fans to mail in video and photos of lost military family members or currently serving and he played these images in each city of his tour. Found out later that the response was the same all over the world. Nobody hates the troops. There are plenty of us that want to see an end to war.
 
2011-12-20 04:08:46 PM
Jon H: URAPNIS: taurusowner: Military chicks(and guys for that matter) are total whores.

Truer words have never been spoken.

Whores, you mean like trolls?


No, like people who have lots of sex with multiple partners who may or may not be their spouse.

CSB:

So while I was in Afghanistan, we had the bright idea of buying a kiddie pool online about putting it on top of our RLBs (shipping containers converted into living space). We get it in the mail, put it up there and spend a few hours filling it with bottled water. The second day we have it, we get ratted out by some Major doing a flyover in a Crashhawk. Not to be dissuaded, we empty the pool, and move it inside one of our empty equipment storage shipping containers. We went out on a five day mission and came back to find the lock snipped off the door, and the container and kiddie pool full of empty Beck's non alcoholic beer bottles, and about 30 used condoms. Heard from some of our rear detachment guys that some Chair Force types saw us moving the pool, and it became their party spot while we were gone.
 
2011-12-20 04:10:28 PM
I got something in my eye...

www.vashtie.com
 
2011-12-20 04:14:03 PM
This is going to really set the bar high for Christmas lists. But Santa is magical.
 
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