Make-A-Wish Foundation Bankrupted by Greedy Kid

The folks at The Onion produced this excellent satirical video claiming that a 8-year-old Boston boy who "took advantage of some bureaucratic loophole" in the charter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation by asking the organization to provide him with unlimited wishes.

Apparently, Chad's "non-stop" wish fulfillment" has grown to include "nine trips to Walt Disney World for himself and his family of five," "a real live F-14 Tomcat (which had to be decommissioned from Afghanistann)," and "daily hot dog lunches with Yankee slugger Johnny Damon," with the result that Chad alone has cost Make-A-Wish Foundation five times its annual budget.


Child Bankrupts Make-A-Wish Foundation With Wish For Unlimited Wishes

The spoof has been so popular, it even got an official response on Snopes..

If you want to give a gift to Make-A-Wish Foundation, you can go here.

Thanks to a loyal reader of Don't Tell the Donor who lives in Israel for sending me an email about this story... and congrats to Jeff Brooks for beating me to this post :)