you shpuld use spell check... 8^)
Posted on 02/21/2015 11:58:15 AM PST by marthemaria
All it took was a Facebook post, the kindness of strangers and eventually a helicopter to save the day for a 6-year-old Florida boy.
For Glenn Buratti's birthday, his mother Ashlee Buratti said she invited his entire class over for a party. When none of the 16 kids showed up, her son was devastated. "To see the look on his face killed me inside," Buratti told CBS News Orlando affiliate WKMG. Her son, who is autistic, was so saddened by the absence of guests, she said, that he refused to smile.
"I know this might be something silly to rant about, but my heart is breaking for my son," she wrote in a post on Facebook. "He keeps asking 'when will my friends get here?'"
The post sparked an immediate response from her community. Buratti said complete strangers responded, and shortly after her posting, kids and their parents began bringing gifts.
Then the police got involved. The county sheriff's office near her house in St. Cloud, Florida, orchestrated their own gift: A flyover from the the sheriff's helicopter.
screen-shot-2015-02-19-at-1-36-17-pm.png A Facebook post caught the eye of the Osceola County Sheriff's Office, who responded with a flyover from the sheriff's helicopter. WKMG
"Glenn just smiled the whole time and waved," Buratti said. "It was amazing."
Deputies bought Glenn more presents, and, the next week, sheriff's cars, police dogs and fire trucks paid him a visit at the same time.
"We got to the stop sign by our house and Glenn was like: 'The fire truck's at our house!'" Buratti recalled. "I said, 'It's okay, They're there to tell you happy birthday.'"
The fact that a simple online "rant" could save her son's birthday restored Buratti's faith in the human spirit.
"The amazingness of everybody coming together for somebody they didn't even know, a kid that didn't have anybody come to his birthday party, it warmed my heart."
Yeah, but what about the classmates that stood him up? I bet they and their parents feel like Shiite...
Most likely a bunch of liberal bottom feeders who can not feel remorse about anything they do.
as they shpuld.
They should.
My kids were fortunate to be very popular in school but I always told them to NEVER be mean to Anyone. They took my advice and are now passing it along to their children. My grandson has a boy in his class with special needs and was posting on Facebook how lonely he was after school. My grandson jumped right in and asks him over on a regular basis and my daughter say this kid’s face just lights up when he arrives.
as they should.
you shpuld use spell check... 8^)
I have 2 grandsons who are on the autism spectrum. This just breaks my heart, but I am happy for those who responded.
This child needs a new class.
hey, ya never know, that might go down in FR history along with hugh and series... 8^)
Their names should have all been posted.
That’s funny.
Girls can be such b!tches. She’s better off with guys for friends, IMO.
Waste of tax payer resources.
I bet you could find a way to screw up your own wet dream with that attitude...
Your new name is the Grinch.
dick
I’m willing to bet the parents told their kids you’re not going.
His class is a piece of shit. At my kids’ elementary, we had down’s kids that were treated like kings and queens. No one would have dreamed of being so cruel. F all of them and their parents.
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