This Santa Claus story is made up, right?

When you exaggerate the details yourself, then yeah, it's suspicious.

But it wasn't a poignant conversation.. The kid gave one word answers and asked one rational question, then another one as he basically died. The family didn't JUST HAPPEN to rush in after he died--they waited until he died, then came in.

The story-book way you described it is pretty suspicious though.

Same Boat McGotes wrote:

When you exaggerate the details yourself, then yeah, it's suspicious.

But it wasn't a poignant conversation.. The kid gave one word answers and asked one rational question, then another one as he basically died. The family didn't JUST HAPPEN to rush in after he died--they waited until he died, then came in.

The story-book way you described it is pretty suspicious though.

His family waited until he died before coming in? Surely you mean they were letting him be alone with Santa and he happened to die during the visit.

Same Boat McGotes wrote:

When you exaggerate the details yourself, then yeah, it's suspicious.

But it wasn't a poignant conversation.. The kid gave one word answers and asked one rational question, then another one as he basically died. The family didn't JUST HAPPEN to rush in after he died--they waited until he died, then came in.

The story-book way you described it is pretty suspicious though.

Do you believe in the Easter Bunny, too?

Looks like Snopes is on my side here.

Shockingly, Santa refused to identify the hospital, nurse, or kid. It's a lie. And, yes, it was a poignant conversation. A 5-year-old talking about how he's going to be Santa's favorite elf at the pearly gates? Didn't happen.

Santa has said that he visited four death beds before this. Surely one of these sets of parents will step forward to publicly vouch for him.

Was this guy even in the Army Rangers?

Santa Sleuth wrote:

Shockingly, Santa refused to identify the hospital, nurse, or kid. It's a lie.

Why would he give personal details about a grieving family?

WhitePony wrote:

Santa Sleuth wrote:

Shockingly, Santa refused to identify the hospital, nurse, or kid. It's a lie.

Why would he give personal details about a grieving family?

He said it was several weeks ago. Plus, the name of the hospital is a "personal detail"? The general vicinity of it is a "personal detail"? The nurse's name? What about letting the reporter verify the story just on background with the nurse? With anybody?

It's a lie. He made it up. It's b.s.

He's as real as Jesus

Barstarzz wrote:

He's as real as Jesus

You think you're clever, but you didn't read the thread. It's not about the general "Santa Claus story," but about a lying liar in Tennessee who said a boy died in his arms after he convinced the boy that he was his "number 1 elf."

You guys were saying?

http://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/local/2016/12/14/story-santa-claus-dying-child-cant-verified/95423868/

"Therefore, because the story does not meet the newspaper’s standards of verification, we are no longer standing by the veracity of Schmitt-Matzen’s account."

Barstarzz wrote:

He's as real as Jesus

Even if you don't believe he is the son of God, Jesus of Nazareth was a real person...

Santa Sleuth wrote:

WhitePony wrote:

Why would he give personal details about a grieving family?

He said it was several weeks ago. Plus, the name of the hospital is a "personal detail"? The general vicinity of it is a "personal detail"? The nurse's name? What about letting the reporter verify the story just on background with the nurse? With anybody?

It's a lie. He made it up. It's b.s.

I think giving any details that could give people an idea who the family was would be considered a personal detail.

I am not arguing that he didn't make it up, I am just saying that people not giving details in a case similar to this is often done out of respect to the families privacy.

WhitePony wrote:

Barstarzz wrote:

He's as real as Jesus

Even if you don't believe he is the son of God, Jesus of Nazareth was a real person...

Even if you don't believe that Santa doesn't deliver presidents to every child in the world on Christmas Eve, St. Nicholas was a real person born in what is now Turkey during the third century...

WhitePony wrote:

Santa Sleuth wrote:

He said it was several weeks ago. Plus, the name of the hospital is a "personal detail"? The general vicinity of it is a "personal detail"? The nurse's name? What about letting the reporter verify the story just on background with the nurse? With anybody?

It's a lie. He made it up. It's b.s.

I think giving any details that could give people an idea who the family was would be considered a personal detail.

I am not arguing that he didn't make it up, I am just saying that people not giving details in a case similar to this is often done out of respect to the families privacy.

Then you don't run the article. Or you have the newspaper reporter verify it with another source on a condition of anonymity. You don't just let some publicity whore spin you a yarn with himself as the hero.

BackAgain wrote:

WhitePony wrote:

Even if you don't believe he is the son of God, Jesus of Nazareth was a real person...

Even if you don't believe that Santa doesn't deliver presidents to every child in the world on Christmas Eve, St. Nicholas was a real person born in what is now Turkey during the third century...

Exactly! Thus confirming the Illuminati!

Santa Sleuth wrote:

WhitePony wrote:

I think giving any details that could give people an idea who the family was would be considered a personal detail.

I am not arguing that he didn't make it up, I am just saying that people not giving details in a case similar to this is often done out of respect to the families privacy.

Then you don't run the article. Or you have the newspaper reporter verify it with another source on a condition of anonymity. You don't just let some publicity whore spin you a yarn with himself as the hero.

That is true.

Yes.

If I visited a bunch of dying kids in a hospital, there would be a pretty good chance one of them would actually die while I was visiting.

Fake news. Reporter went along with the obviously bogus story to get more internet "hits" to keep the editors happy.

odds better than lottery.... wrote:

If I visited a bunch of dying kids in a hospital, there would be a pretty good chance one of them would actually die while I was visiting.

This.