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I want money
A while ago, We came across the "send me a dollar" site. It was amusing, but we didn't send him a dollar. Now, it's e-mail begging for $500 - and aside from the grammar, it's really not that amusing.
sec@moscow.com writes:
Please reemit the sum of $500.00 US ($740 CDN at todays exchange rate of $1.48 CDN to the US Dollar) to 676 #235, W Pullman Road, Moscow Idaho, 83843 Please make out the check to Bonnie Jean Crawford Evans
We've had people come up to us on the subway before and ask for a dollar, but this is the first time somebody's tried to mooch over the Internet. What a scam! Fire up the automailer, ask 10 million people to send you money, and if only 1% reply, you're moving into a double-wide.
But as much as we admire your initiative, and are thankful we don't have to smell you while you're asking, our response is the same as we give your street-corner cousins:
Get a job!
It's not that we lack compassion, but we know you'll just spend it on smack. Giving cash to junkies isn't part of the solution, but part of the problem.
Failure to do so will result in legal action being taken on you in Idaho Small Claims Court, Latah County
We'd love to meet you face to ... well ... whatever you got, but Idaho's a long way from here, and we're well out of that jurisdiction. Granted, it's tempting to see you all scrubbed up and fumbling through malapropisms in a desperate attempt to convince a judge you're a vicitim of society and are entitled to a payoff from whomever you ask, we've better things to do with our time.
contact the Latah County Courthouse at area code 208-883-2255 and ask for information on small claims court. if you fail to appear, the judgment will find against you.
Thats a good one. Bet you get a lot of old people to hand over their social security checks that way - which would have gone to televangelists anyway, so it's no great loss to the economy - but sooner or later, it'll get you in Dutch. Begging for money is one thing, but threatening legal action if people don't snap open their wallets is another. Perhaps you could call the county seat and ask about that.
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And if at first you don't succeed ...
sec@moscow.com writes:
please reemit the sum of $1000 for unautorized use of copywright images.
You silly person! When you ask for a dollar and someone says "get a job," you're supposed to say "then how 'bout fiddy cent?" If they tell you to get a job again, you're supposed to piss off and bother someone else. And so ...
Get a job!
Though you promise to use the cash to make unauthorized use of copyrighted images rather than just spending it on smack, it's neither productive nor necessary. You really don't need our financial support if you want to do that.
On the other hand, if you're suggesting that images on our site are copyrighted by you, you've misunderstood the deal: All the photos were e-mailed to us with the understanding they might (at our discretion) be used on the site, and with no expectation of payment.
We're grateful and all, but this isn't World's Funniest and there's no weekly prize for the winner. Of course, we could call it "World's Fugliest," but we tend to think the network might have grounds to sue.
... unlike some people we know.
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