Syrian Kids Holding Pokemon Signs And Hoping To Get Found Is The Saddest Shit I've Ever Seen

This is going to sound somewhat heartless, but I’ve seen a million Sarah McLachlan dog commercials and have never been moved enough to reach for my wallet. I’ve seen the African kids with flies on their eyes and big bellies and felt awful, but not awful enough to reach for my wallet and commit to a nickel a day, or whatever it is. But right now? I’m ready to grab my blue vest, backpack, and Ash Ketchum hat and go catch all these kids (sounds creepy but they want to be caught so it’s kinda fair). Yeah, the fact that I desperately want a Squirtle certainly plays a factor in this emotion but that’s just great marketing. They know how to sell themselves. I want a Squirtle so badly I’ll take a Syrian refugee with it if that’s what I have to do. Probably won’t even have to use incense and modules to catch these kids, just show up in Syria and they come running. Hope they do, at least. I want to rescue/catch that shit out of all of them.

PS – It’s less fun that PokemonGoing them but if you can, donate to the IRC because while I made a few jokes these are for real sad as shit.

PPS – Saying I wanted to “catch” kids reminded me of the most horrifying villain in the history of film. I was never scared of monsters under my bed or the Boogeyman or an evil monkey in my closet, but I lost COUNTLESS nights of sleep because of this guy.