I have to say, this one made me snicker. I got this over at MySpace and … :::shaking head::: I was so tempted to repost it with a breakdown of what is wrong with this scenario, but shoot, why pester my friends with it?
So, here it is…
Posted as: Sad Wal-Mart Story
Sad Wal-Mart Story A sister and her brother were inside a new Wal-Mart. The sister at eight years of age and the brother seventeen years of age. The brother was wanting to buy a present for his little sister beacuse her birthday was coming up. As they were about to leave, she had to go to the bathroom. Her brother showed her where the restrooms were and he began looking at earrings he thought she might like for her birthday.As he started to buy the earrings, he saw people running from the end of the store screaming and yelling with fear. In the next moment he smelled smoke and saw flames. He ran to his little sister as fast as he could but when he got to the bathrooms the fire was already blazing. He knew he had to leave to make sure help was coming. When the firetrucks arrived it was already too late. They assured the family that there were no survivors. Two days later the family got a call from the hospital. They told them that they had someone there by the name of Sandy. They asked, “How did you get this number?” The hospital replied that the little girl had a purse clutched in her little hand with a card that gave her name and number on it. The family drove to the hospital to see their little angel. While they thanked God for her survival, they noticed her arms were burnt so severely they were both amputated and her face was burned and she needed surgery. The family didn’t have any health insurance and very little money to cover the bill. This family needs our HELP!NOTE:
Everytime someone reposts this story, MYSPACE will take $2.00 off the hospital bill.DO NOT DELETE! MYSPACE IS TRACKING THIS!Please repost “Sad Wal-Mart Story”. God knows who you are.
Karma knows it could happen to you
$2.00 off the hospital bill
Now for the breakdown.First off, so any of us REALLY believe that MySpace - or any big company someone wants to put in the line there (I’ve seen these for Bill Gates too) will track SPAM and pay off to charity for how many times the SPAM is forwarded to others? The karma you get out of this is your friends all getting mad because you filled their inbox or comments or other such space with useless junk they had to waste their time deleting. That ain’t the sort of karma I want to be building up!This post draws at the heartstrings. Brother shopping for gift he thinks his sister might like. He sends her off on her own to set up the ‘he had to have felt AWFUL!’ cries in the reader. Fire, no survivors but.. wait.. the firemen missed that they pulled someone out and sent them to the hospital!
Th word “little” is spread out liberally when talking about the girl, drawing on the protective instincts of everyone that has kids or grandkids etc… the writer wants the reader to feel for the poor “little” girl — reminds me of the commercials on television showing the doe-eyed litte girl as who you are saving - a girl that has got to be in her 20’s based on how long ago I first saw the commercial.
And if all the hear string pulling and sad story telling is not enough to keep things moving. Bring on the fire and brimstone! God is watching! Yes, God wants you to send stupid spam to your friends. He wants you to waste their time. Sounds more to me, for them good God fearing folks out there clicking away to send that off, like it’s a Devil’s trick more than a request of God. Yes, God is watching and this is a test to see if you are smart enough to outwit even the most pitiful of the Devil’s tricks.
Don’t send things like this around places like MySpace or your buddy list or into the e-mail. No one is lowering any bills and indeed no one was even injures. Not a eight year old and not an eighty year old. No one.
For more on this scam check out the Snopes listing for it.
