You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.™
Selling the Death of Osama Bin Laden.
While some of you were huddling against your flat screens absorbing every morsel of news, while some of you were in the streets chanting USA, others were doing what Americans always do when a moment of opportunity arises.
Moments after it is announced that the world’s number one terrorist is dead, an American capitalist jumps into action.
Looking to capitalize on a dying fad, pardon the pun, a New York man creates a simple t-shirt.
The figure shows a scraggly faced Osama with the word DEAD stenciled across his face.
Simple. Pure. Lucrative.
According to published reports; the man made $120K in two days.
Two Days! Are you kidding me? That’s a lot of impulse buying for a dead terrorist, don’t you think?
You couldn’t sell that much bar soap with the pix of Kate and William (Killiam) in a month.
It would take a decade to sell $120,000 worth of Charles Barkley signature golf clubs.
48 hours and the t-shirt guy is in a whole new tax bracket.
Who does he write down as his dependents, Seal Team 6!
According to published reports; Maurice Harary, 23, went straight to his New York apartment when he heard Sunday that bin Laden was killed by US forces in a precision raid in Pakistan.
He immediately began building a website to sell his “bin Laden is dead” T-shirts.
Harary claimed that his site went live at 3:30am local time Monday and sold 10,000 T-shirts at $12 each by Tuesday night.
The sales added up more quickly than Alex Rodriguez girlfriends.
What an ironic punch in the face for a man who hated capitalism like no other.
Not only was Bin Laden dead, but his death made an American Rich and happy.
Like I always say, terrorists come and go, but the will of the American people to make a buck will live on forever.
And that’s crazy.