Brent Brown: My own personal Barbara Eden

It started out with just a random attempt at being an asshole.

I am a follower of WLOS’ Facebook page. I usually go on there and tell stupid jokes and try to get the idiots riled up. Yesterday, I made a huge mistake.

I logged on at around 1 or 2 pm yesterday and saw a post about a missing kid in Brevard. Instead of posting the typical “OMG MY PRAYERS ARE WITH TEH FAMILY WRAP YOUR STRONG LOU FERIGNO LIKE ARMS AROUND HIM JESUS” post, I decided to post something pointed and innocent on the page. I posted this:

I hope he’s just hiding out somewhere nailing his girlfriend.

Not the best sentiment, but still something better than “I hope he isn’t dead”.

About five minutes later, someone posted in the thread that the guy was dead. I immediately go back and post “ouch, sorry”.

Cue the shitstorm.

People are sending me messages threatening me, calling for my head. People are telling me to find the kid’s parents and apologize to them in person.

I keep explaining that my little joke (which was made at the time that nobody knew that the kid was dead) is probably the least of the concerns of the family and friends of the dead kid right now. But these caps lock using retards are still bloodthirsty.

Normally, this is where the story ends: me being an asshole and idiots overreacting. But not this time. This time Brent Brown (who is a famous artist) stepped in and reminded us all why he’s the Henderson County Heartbreaker (well, he would be called that if he were in his 20s. And a wrestler. And looked less like Bill Murray. You get my point).

I posted the link to the Facebook page on a local message board that I post on, and titled the thread “Bugg and the ill-timed joke”.  Brent replied that the thread title sounded like the latest in a long line of children’s books starring me.  I laughed. Other people laughed. Then Brent DESTROYED us by posting this image:

This image is now my favorite thing in the world. There I am, an honest-to-goodness CARTOON CHARACTER. There are few things in this world that have made me this happy.

Now if I could only star in my own strip…