Man Runs Into Burning Building To Save Cake

The people of Jacksonville, Florida, take their cake seriously. They like their cake so much, in fact, that recently a father ran into his burning house to save his child's birthday cake. From the article: "The fire destroyed the home on Bowden Circle South. Those who live at the home said they were celebrating their child's fourth birthday when the flames started. We're told the child's father ran into the home and grabbed the cake so they could keep celebrating."

Say what?

[Yvan256]

He loves his child so much that he will risk the possibility of his child not having a father for the rest of his life to save a birthday cake the kid won't even remember eating in a few weeks.

Wait, what?

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[clone53421]

But the cake is a lie...

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[Dunbal]

People have often risked life and limb for lies. Read history?

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[GNUALMAFUERTE]

Not all the cakes. I've heard that, When no one was looking, Lex Luthor took forty cakes. He took 40 cakes. That’s as many as four tens. And that’s terrible.

Now, it's the second time today that I get a legitimate chance to use that stupid meme. I think the world is coming to an end.

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[v1]

Other unexplained contributing factors may be things like (1) how special the cake was, and (2) just how involved the fire was

1. I have vivid memory of many of my birthday cakes, as my mother always got the local bakery to make a special themed cake for me every year. One was King Kong, complete with big brown frosting gorrilla on top of what loooked like the white house, swinging at planes. (and the whole party, the cups, placemats, plates, etc were all on the theme) Saying things like this don't matter

It's not the cake...

[Airdorn]

It's who was hidden inside the cake.

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[tomhudson]

Doesn't matter either way - the house was in Florida, so it's pretty much guaranteed to be underwater either financially in the next 2 years, if it isn't already.

If you thought the subprime crisis was big, you ain't seen nothing yet. The Alt-A defaults are just starting up, and they'll continue to pull values down - to the point that most prime mortgages will also be underwater.

Add the boomers trying to "cash out" and there's no way housing recovers before 2020.

It has to be said:

[Qbertino]

This is a triumph. :-)

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[Evil_Ether]

Or a trifle.

The details

[Megahard]

He was seen moving into the burning house on a levitating platform, carrying a futuristic-looking ray gun.