and claim to be about going after the big money corporations.

no, this story only shows how there are people who are frauds willing to lie to get money from others who have nothing and even to attack innocent low wage people.

you shouldn't have made another thread on this until you were ready to admit you were wrong.

Just pointing out that we don't have all the facts yet.

the question of guilt over low wage employees under the cover of fighting against the big guys.

Two investigations and a review of security video from two KFC locations found that the child was NEVER there. The child's Facebook page and website have been taken down. We do have all the facts, and those facts are that this was an utter fabrication, and that you are continuing to sound like a boob for bringing this up again.

You know the old saying, "When you're in a whole, stop digging?"

Yeah. That.

Might I recommend that you delete this thread as well, and we'll all try to pretend that nothing happened?

Especially since you're STILL denying the facts pointed out to you in the extraordinarily numerous replies in your first failed thread.

Give it up.

And how about apologizing to all the members here that you accused of being willing to do the same fraudulent crap that family did.

I simply pointed out that such desperation could drive all of us to such choices.

It still goes without saying that there was no other way to pay for the kid's surgery.

This was never a get-rich scheme.

What I said in the OP was enough. Move on.

People should not be put in desperate circumstances with no way out. It can make them do things that harm others, when they otherwise wouldn't.

I get that this was your main point. This is what we need to address. We need a real safety net in this country.

going to make stupid decisions that put themselves in desperate circumstances.

Not saying this is what happened here. Just saying that you can't save everyone from themselves.

... by myself and others, that this incident has been investigated, by KFC and an external investigator, and the grandmother's version of events has been disproven.

And yet you persist in statements like "the KFC employees if they were actually innocent of wrongdoing (something we still don't know for sure)."

"There is still a point to be made about what this story shows about our system and the choices it makes some people make ..."

No, this particular story shows no such thing. Stories abound about people being driven to truly desperate measures - this is NOT one of those stories.

This is a tale about greedy grifters who fomented intense anger against innocent people in order to make a buck.

And in your zeal to foment anger against a corporation, you chose to vilify innocent people in order to make a point - and are still doing so by ignoring the known facts, and implying that whether the KFC employees are innocent is "something we still don't know for sure."

thought-provoking comments. While I do think it's much more likely than not that the incident never happened, and I disagree that it would be a justifiable hoax, it's true that we don't entirely know what this family is thinking and feeling.

Regardless of the truth or outcome, incidents like this serve as launching pads to explore questions of bias, fairness, justice, right and wrong - which your thread did...