October 23, 2006
The YouTube Challenge, Part II
filed under: Hey, What's The Big IdeaSo first was the challenge to watch Tickle Me Elmo Extreme without laughing.
Now, I dare you - double dast dare you - to watch the video below without crying. Not possible. Can't be done.
Backstory: Rick Hoyt was born with CP. When he was young, he told his father he wanted to run in a 5 mile race. His father, Dick, was not a runner, but he pushed Rick in his wheelchair for the race, and Rick said it was the first time he didn't feel disabled. Now Rick is in his 40s and Dick is in his 60s, and they run marathons, triathalons, and have trekked across the country, with Dick pushing Rick's wheelchair, dragging him behind him in an inflatable boat, or propped in a special seat on the front of his bike.
Now, you may be a cynic. And it may run afoul of your sense of irony or decorum that the song playing is about Jesus. But I defy you not to choke up like a drunken college girl at a Steel Magnolias party when you watch this astonishing video:
Posted by rjt at October 23, 2006 07:06 PMgasping.
astonishing is right.
not all people suck.
you still do.
this guy goes straight to heaven before the first chest pain hits.
Ok....the Elmo got ONE laugh out of me...but mostly I was friggin' amazed at the technology inherent in the thing that enables it to right itself when it falls over.
Gyroscopes? Hooked to a command chip? Dont know...
Not a tear for the dad/son triatholon. Not one.
Because the father is a friggin' HERO to me. To love your son that COMPLETELY that you would want to enable him to see and live things through you.
A father son relationship is usually based on the father living things through his progeny (the son) as he gets older. Insuring his place in the future, and as the bloodline continues, through eternity.
But this man? He does that for his SON?
I want a father rebate.........
Posted by: Nacinomawhosit at October 28, 2006 04:50 PM