Please note that we didn't include a picture of the drawing because David might try to charge us for it. We really can't afford $233 right now.
Good Idea!: Man Submits Drawing Of Spider Instead Of Payment For Overdue Account [Geekologie] (Thanks to Anthony!)
]]>That is what makes this especially hilarious.
]]>@LastVigilante: Don Novello, who is better known to most people as Father Guido Sarducci of SNL fame, beat "Letters from a Nut" to the punch by a couple of decaded with "The Lazlo Letters," which is well worth checking out.
In other news, all M.D.'s are quacks, all lawyers are just in it for the money, and kittens are only cute to get you to feed them treats.
]]>Hmmm, after reading that I realize the spider is immensely funnier.
]]>But ya know, the cost of adding to the workload of CS reps like this might just show up in the price of the company's goods or services.
]]>@Quilt:
Brilliant! I'm going to send my macaroni picture of Pac-man I made in second grade to BoA to pay my credit card - then when they send it back and half the mac has fallen off, I'll say they ruined my masterpiece and have no choice but to make my payment for me that month.
]]>*hint hint*
Maybe not?
]]>If you follow the link provided by gibbersome above, you'll read a bit about this David fellow having an account with some utility company in arrears. However, if you look at the site with which this originated (which I saw some number of weeks ago as a Reddit link), you find this:
"Jane
Voodoo Magic Money Lady
I read recently of a 'qualified' chiropractor that has been using distance healing for quite some time, claiming he can heal you from his living room. There's no need to visit his office, just call or write and he will do the rest. Apparently he discovered his special chiropractic skill while he was in his car; his foot hurt and he told it to realign itself. I did not make this up."
If you take it to be the case that the company with which he has this outstanding debt is one which purports to be able to provide distance healing at 233 some-odd dollars a shot, then, if you reread it, you find this e-mail exchange to be much more poignant, humorous, and meaningful. And you find also, I should hope, that that David has not paid this huckstering chiropractor the money he "owes" him for his "professional distance healing services" not to be wrong in a moral or ethical sense but only in a legal sense.
Personally, I applaud him for it.
]]>It's entertaining either way, though.
]]>http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=665808 apparantly he sold the picture on ebay for $15000 AU
]]>@shufflemoomin: Maybe the ability to save it and print it out makes it a physical product.
]]>Jane said: "Yes it is the same drawing. I copied and pasted it from the email you sent me on the 8th."
He should have taken that as an opening to get mad that she made an illegal copy of his artwork and said that they now owed him $233 for the illegal copy they made. ;)
]]>He'd go into restaurants and order a meal for him, his entourage, etc.. and then write a check. On the back of the check he'd put a little drawing and then tell the owner that it's a Special Drawing Just For Him By The Great Dali.. and then the owner would never cash it!
]]>@stezton: same here. but by now my office mates know about my habit of reading the consumerist articles and occasionally breaking out into laughter. what magical substance was this man smoking?
]]>@krztov: I don't care if it is fake or not, it is funny as hell.
]]>"It's a Picasso!"
]]>@balilanai: not fake, as i said below. "for those saying its fake, pretty sure its not, hes a friend of my girlfriends, which made me go wtf when i saw this, we read it on his livejournal a few days ago :)"
]]>I doubt he would, apparently the spider was given away and was subsequently sold on e-bay.
LGT ebay auction that ended. [cgi.ebay.com]
]]>Couldn't tell you if it really happened between Mr. Thorne and a business, though.
]]>^ That's knee-slappingly clever! :)
]]>for those saying its fake, pretty sure its not, hes a friend of my girlfriends, which made me go wtf when i saw this, we read it on his livejournal a few days ago :)
]]>@tande04: Heck, I didn't bother stifling it. I just went ahead and showed it to my cubemate. :)
]]>Basically, the author sends crazy letters to all these corporations, government offices and famous people only to see how seriously he's taken in the obscure responses he receives. Usually, its the responses from these people that are more funny than the situations the author creates with the initial letter. I highly reccommend the read, its right up Consumerist's alley.
]]>@maztec: Picasso was reported to have sketched some work on a piece of paper or napkin for his house to show a contractor what he wanted. When he asked the contractor how much it would be, the contractor said that the actual sketch would be fine as payment.
]]>@balilanai: Are you suggesting that there is absolutely no way that this exchange could have taken place?
]]>May as well just send a check for $15 and write a binding memo that if it is cashed all debts are forgiven. :\ Just as effective in the end, unless the company really screws that one up too.
]]>@gafpromise: No way it's a bot.
]]>Brilliant! Kudos to the Rep. she kept it cool the entire time.
]]>There is no way that's real. "Jane" sounds like a bot to me.
]]>I couldn't even finish it.
I'll have to wait until I get home cause I look like an idiot trying to stiffle my LOL in my cube.
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