Man Gives Away Teddy Bears, Everybody Panics and Calls the Cops

Reason.com ^ | 14 Sept 2016 | Lenore Skenazy

[Red Badger]

It has come to this........................B^(

[Red Badger]

From the Grateful Dead, yeah................

[VanDeKoik]

Thanks to the automatic man = pedo/rapist stupidity that infests both sides of the political spectrum, this is what any guy can expect.

[mumblypeg]

“Oh, bother,” said Pooh.

[El Cid]

The reference was to the homonyms Cronkhite (the subject of this article) and the dead, Bolshevik newscaster Walter Cronkite who would always close out his propaganda ‘newscasts’ with ‘...and that the way it is ...’

[Mr_Moonlight]

Now if he were some 24-35 year old Muzzie wearing an explosive laden flack jacket while handing out free pressure cookers and shouting "Allahu Akbar", then it would've been alright. Anyone calling the Cops would have been labeled as an Islamophobe and dragged into DNC headquarters for questioning ....

/sarc

~ MM ~

[Captain Rhino]

The last name of the man in the article is Cronkhite.

The sign off I posted was from the famous CBS journalist, Walter Cronkite. He signed off the CBS Evening News on television with that departing salutation for ... oh, 20+ years, I suppose.

[Fido969]

Giving things away is the job of the GOVERNMENT!

[Ezekiel]

It’s a jaded world out there.

No wonder people freaked out.

A pure good deed... no guile, no weirdness, no ulterior motive involved? *Who ever sees that?*

I myself even wonder if the story is faked just to get a rise out of people. :-/

In any case, imagine what would happen if the Messiah showed up and started handing out teddy bears, or gathered kids around to entertain them with fun stories, or put Spiderman or Hello Kitty bandages on their scuffed knees?

He’d be lucky to make it out alive.

[PLMerite]

The Government must be the sole source of charity and munificence.

[equaviator]

Sometimes you have to give it right back to them just as hard.

[NormsRevenge]

People are nuts.. ripped the bear apart to check for drugs?

Hey, that might have been a great idea for a raffle. Buy the bear with a kilo of coke in it.. get a Presidential pardon.

[zeugma]

Certainly Cronkhite has learned what it means to be male and friendly and a little offbeat: "I will never try to go out and try to do anything nice for anyone again," he said.

This is what we've come to as a society. Frankly, I'm not sure if we deserve to survive.

[MeganC]

“...one frantic mom ripped apart her kid’s bear to see if it contained something insidious.”

Odds are that this was the rare 1904 Steiff bear that was in mint condition and worth as much as $100,000.00

[Thumper1960]

Who are you calling “ancient”????????????

[JimRed]

See something, say something, run amok.

[JimRed]

See something, say something, run amok.

[Captain Rhino]

Okay. If you were born after 1949, you are not ancient.

You are a young whipper snapper!! Better?

(Actually, I used “ancient” because Cronkite has been gone from the scene so long that many of the younger FREEPERs may have never had a chance to hear the famous signoff.)

[Crucial]

“No one who isn’t you should interact with your kids.”

This s a strange statement. Even with parents present? This is a sure way to break the bonds of community by instilling paranoia in the young.

[BobPgh]

He should have handed out free “love is love” rainbow colored condoms .. which would raise 0 red flags in these azz..backward times.