An act of kindness

I was reading a game message board when I came across a link to this paintball message board. Be prepared, it hit me by surprise and put a lump in my throat. I know God put this person to use and blessed the boy in the story. I'm not going to give any more details because I don't want to give anything away, but if you have time at least read the posts by Pdx.Sierra and fruit_loops. I am on page 36 of the thread and I have no idea where it will end.

http://xtremepaintballcanada.com/vancouver/forums/index.php?showtopic=1583&st=0

This is the conclusion to the story, don't read it until you have read the first few posts from the first link. The first thread is over 1000 posts, so I finally tried to find the end of it and this was it.

Damn. Great link.

Nothing to say, except that it''s just great. Maybe not huge in the grand scheme of things, but its damn, damn cool.

I hope many scenes like that played out this last christmas.

Thanks for the link Toybus. That''s a great story.

Really touching, looks like I have some reading to do.

this is the biggest present I have ever received

LOL XBOX IS HUEG

Seriously though, great story. It''s amazing to hear things like that happen.

Anyone summarize the ending? The topic is apparently closed. I read through about 40 pages worth, beginning and end, but saw mention that the boy went into a coma on the 3rd.

Kriminy, most of the time I hate people but sometimes -- like now -- I love them.

Visit the main page of the paintball site to see the current news.

"BadMojo" wrote:

Visit the main page of the paintball site to see the current news. :(

Arr! I could''ve just pretended he got the xbox and all was keen. Damn!

f*ck, I shouldn''t have come back into this thread. How very sad.

Yeah I registered to the board to find out what happened. This is the final post from Sierra: (don''t read it if you haven''t read the first link yet)

For 10 days, his charisma filled the world and temporarily united all people from all nations. Not the use of any word will ever describe the immensity of his bravery. Known only as fruit_loops, the unknown soldier of the internet yet in real life he existed, he is our new icon of hope.

With these words, I regret to inform you that we lost our little fighter at 1117H (Pacific Time) today, the 5th of January 2004. His recovery was cut short by the worst seizure he ever had that lasted more than 40 minutes despite emergency medical interventions. He is now resting in peace and rest assured, he will struggle no more from pain.

Please accept our gratitude for all your time, your love and your prayers. xtremepaintballcanada.com will always be proud to have been selected by an unknown force to beam to the world the last 10-days of the life of our little fighter or our little man or our wee man as we all have been endeared to the existence of such terms.

Let's rally the world again one more time and give the family words of encouragement and support. Please go back to where you chanced on the story of our little fighter and post a statement of gratitude not only from us but make it from the world.

If he touched your lives, please submit your post-scripts. In lieu of cards, flowers, gifts or donations to the family, please redirect them to a cancer research organization of your choice.

Do remember the countless fruit_loops we have around the world. Respect their pain and sufferings, please.

To the various men and women and institutions who fought fruit_loops' battle alongside with him, a thank you is all we can afford. Let's keep God in our hearts.

Damn.

Just... damn.

Bummer. Even if it''s ""just people you''ve met online"", it still gets to you.