Child left in Camaro

[DRKS1D3]

It's a fabricated story folks, calm down. It's from a known satirical publisher.

[Eich]

Originally Posted by DRKS1D3

It's a fabricated story folks, calm down. It's from a known satirical publisher.

I don't think the fact that it's fabricated is in question. It's just not very entertaining. Not sure why anyone would choose to write a fictional story about a suffocating child in attempt to be humorous.

[PoorMansCamaro]

Originally Posted by Eich

I don't think the fact that it's fabricated is in question. It's just not very entertaining. Not sure why anyone would choose to write a fictional story about a suffocating child in attempt to be humorous.

you must not be familiar with the onion.

[LStick]

While I usually love "the Onion", this one isn't one of their best articles.

[Bell040]

[ChrisBlair]

Originally Posted by Eich

I don't think the fact that it's fabricated is in question. It's just not very entertaining. Not sure why anyone would choose to write a fictional story about a suffocating child in attempt to be humorous.

lol, it's not like your buddy came by and told a story he thought would be funny.

The Onion presents itself, on the surface, as a legit news source. Only when the headlines or stories are read, sometimes carefully, is the satire apparent.

In order to achieve satire (I can't believe I need to explain this), it would be necessary to have a realistic set of stories at first glance.

You would not be able to argue that tragic stories like this are not real and are not grotesque, and that they are not in real newspapers. Therefore, the Onion takes "news" of this kind and includes it in it's 'newspaper'. But the story itself is not shocking and not hurtful at all, it is goofy. You are looking at it as if the fictional abuse of a a fictional child is the humor. It is not.

The humor is that the reporter and all involved are so infatuated with the car, that he supposedly wrote the story more about the car than about the fictional event, and the police etc, do the same: the humor is the dopey reporter, etc daydreaming about a Camaro instead of doing his job. There's humor on a couple levels there: satirization of the classic 'men love cars' angle taken to an extreme, ridicule of the standards of journalism and even professionalism...there's a couple things going on.

You may chose instead to be angered over an obviously fictional story. In that case you are uptight and refuse to understand the concept behind the satire newspaper. You put your foot down and self-righteously declare 'it's not funny'. That's fine but when you start judging, judge yourself too, because you're willfully ignoring the premise just because you don't see any humor.

[SeriouslySinning]

So no one was left in the car as a child? Really? or played with toys that contained lead paint or rode in the car on your parents lap or rode bikes without helmets or jumped off bridges or anything else that put us all in danger as a kid.

This country needs to relax and not be so hyper sensitive to everything... damn

[ChrisBlair]

Originally Posted by SeriouslySinning

So no one was left in the car as a child? Really? or played with toys that contained lead paint or rode in the car on your parents lap or rode bikes without helmets or jumped off bridges or anything else that put us all in danger as a kid.

This country needs to relax and not be so hyper sensitive to everything... damn

Nope. I grew up on a another planet, personally, where everything was made of Nerf. Even the breakfast cereals. Planet Nerf we called it. Everyone was a lawyer there, too.

[CamaroSkooter]

Originally Posted by ChrisBlair

lol, it's not like your buddy came by and told a story he thought would be funny.

The Onion presents itself, on the surface, as a legit news source. Only when the headlines or stories are read, sometimes carefully, is the satire apparent.

In order to achieve satire (I can't believe I need to explain this), it would be necessary to have a realistic set of stories at first glance.

You would not be able to argue that tragic stories like this are not real and are not grotesque, and that they are not in real newspapers. Therefore, the Onion takes "news" of this kind and includes it in it's 'newspaper'. But the story itself is not shocking and not hurtful at all, it is goofy. You are looking at it as if the fictional abuse of a a fictional child is the humor. It is not.

The humor is that the reporter and all involved are so infatuated with the car, that he supposedly wrote the story more about the car than about the fictional event, and the police etc, do the same: the humor is the dopey reporter, etc daydreaming about a Camaro instead of doing his job. There's humor on a couple levels there: satirization of the classic 'men love cars' angle taken to an extreme, ridicule of the standards of journalism and even professionalism...there's a couple things going on.

You may chose instead to be angered over an obviously fictional story. In that case you are uptight and refuse to understand the concept behind the satire newspaper. You put your foot down and self-righteously declare 'it's not funny'. That's fine but when you start judging, judge yourself too, because you're willfully ignoring the premise just because you don't see any humor.

And by extension, the article is also a satirical commentary on how out of touch our news media has become. Onion is subtly pointing out how often times the media will over-emphasize an aspect of a story that is outside of what the media really ought to be focusing on.

[Del's12SS]

Loved the read, and love the Onion.
Made me laugh.
Thanks for sharing.

[revychevy]

You guys who are up in arms about the Onion, a satire paper that only tells fake stories need to get a life. You petunias probably hate Dave Chapelle because Wayne Brady was portrayed as a pimp who shot people and made Dave take drugs since sex trafficking and drug violence are real problems and "not funny".

The only comedy that could pass your standards is 3rd grade knock knock jokes.

Rest assured no actual children or Camaros were harmed in the telling of this joke news story.

[blk13SS]

I stopped reading 1/3 into the story, realized it was a fabricated story.

[Rhyder]

Originally Posted by revychevy

You guys who are up in arms about the Onion, a satire paper that only tells fake stories need to get a life. You petunias probably hate Dave Chapelle because Wayne Brady was portrayed as a pimp who shot people and made Dave take drugs since sex trafficking and drug violence are real problems and "not funny".

The only comedy that could pass your standards is 3rd grade knock knock jokes.

Rest assured no actual children or Camaros were harmed in the telling of this joke news story.

While I understand where you are coming from, I personally believe there are some subjects that should not be used in places like these as comedy.....child abuse/molestation, rape murders, human slavery...there are several more, but child death due to abandonment is definitely in the line up.....

people like Dave Chapelle have a line they wont cross, and when they flirt with it, they put and portray it in an environment that is so artificial that it cant possibly be real life.......a child dying of heatstroke in a car is sadly all to real.......

[MYDLIFECRISIS]

I didn't know the Onion was still published. Thought it went out a while back.