Seriously, the HELL?!

[apocalypsos]

When a 25-year-old Manhattan graduate student who was assaulted Tuesday night got dressed that morning, she probably didn’t anticipate that her T-shirt would provoke four teens into shoving her, pulling out her earphones and spitting in her face.

Then again, with a shirt sporting the slogan, “Obama is my slave,” it may have been wise to consider the possibility.

Now she’s suing the $69 shirt’s designer, Apollo Braun, for “all he’s got,” the designer claims.

Per the designer: “He reminds me of Adolf Hitler,” Braun explained, adding he does not like Obama because “he is a Muslim” — a thoroughly debunked myth.

... HOW?!

Comments

[neonhummingbird.livejournal.com]

And I can't decide if I'm more confused by the obviously delusional and possible insane 'designer', or by the woman who bought his t-shirt ($69 for a t-shirt? That's a crime right there) and wore it and now wants to sue him for... letting her?

People make my head hurt.

[thebratqueen.livejournal.com]

WHAT?

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

What.... I don't.... I just don't get what Braun is getting at.

[medie]

...It amazes me how the truly stupid can get into grad school. MORONIC slogan aside (though dude, that's PhD in FAIL right there) paying sixty nine bucks for a t-shirt?

My brain hurts.

[jacinthsong.livejournal.com]

......

Well, um, physical assault is bad. But that entire story is just made of OMGWTF. Ever feel that when you made this post you might just have tempted fate?

[sabotabby]

Can we convict both of them for first-degree fashion crimes?

[etoilepb.livejournal.com]

Everything in there is fail.

1.) Stupid T-shirts with baaad sentiments.
2.) Paying $69 USD FOR stupid T-shirts with baaaaad sentiments.
3.) Not anticipating that wearing said baaaaaaad T-shirts would piss people off.
4.) The article acting like assault is somehow OK if your clothes make you deserve it.

I think jacinthsong is right: there was clearly more fail left over.

[yueni]

Honestly? I think everybody in this article is made of fail, period. There could probably be more fail, but I really would rather not envision it. The epic failness kind of exceeds all proportions so far.

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

This is so stupid, all the way around, that I think I just lost IQ points reading it. UGH.

[sgriobadh.livejournal.com]

I don't even know where to start. Ow.

[jtersesk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was pretty much my reaction, too.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

Wow. It's not often that you see a story in which all parties have reserved first-class cabins on the failboat.

I mean, design? Fail. Buying and paying for design? Fail. Resorting to physical violence against the obvious idiot instead of mocking her to kingdom come as is deserved and proper? Fail. They should have asked for group rates in their reservations.

[nycdeb.livejournal.com]

what you said the other day, about running out of fail -- when is that gonna happen?

360 degree stupid.

*sigh*

[spyderqueen.livejournal.com]

Fail is infinite. You cannot run out.

[nycdeb.livejournal.com]

a limitless supply. sigh. if only we could harness the power of fail for good instead of stupid, we might end global warming, stamp out poverty, and find Jimmy Hoffa all in one go.

[honorh.livejournal.com]

It's sad when the persons I identify most with in a given bit of wankery are a quartet of teenagers who attacked a woman in a subway.

[dargie.livejournal.com]

The lot of them, they're all insane. Dear god, is it something in the water?

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. I must find out what causes of action she's contriving, because that shit is hilarious.

-blue

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD THE DESIGNER IS ISRAELI WHYYYY?

I'm so ashamed. *hides face*

[sgriobadh.livejournal.com]

No, wait, I know what it was I wanted to say:

.

[spiritof1976.livejournal.com]

She's suing him for designing the t-shirt that got her beaten up? What, did he staple it to her or something? You had a choice to wear it, you dim, racist bint!

[angry-geologist.livejournal.com]

You know, this might be made of fail, but it seems like karma is fully operating for all players here. The asshole teens get prosecuted for the assault, the asshole grad student got a rude awakening, and now the asshole designer is getting sued. It's like... all the assholes get what's coming...

[ninamonkey.livejournal.com]

There is not a name, sentiment, or description to describe the level of sheer STUPID of everyone in that article. If I hadn't read it for myself I would've sworn it was a myth or urban legend, and that I should've seen in on Snopes.

ARRRGH.

"Dear Universe, please go Darwin Awards on them, 'kay?"

*Shakes fist*

[nuptse.livejournal.com]

HOW?!
Um. He's got two legs?

Yet all I could think of for a second after reading this article was "she paid $69 for a t-shirt?"
And then the trainload of fail finally arrived at the station and the rest of it caught up.

[jacinthsong.livejournal.com]

And a nose. Nazis had noses. Well-known fact.

[xblackrose666x.livejournal.com]

One would think that she'd looked at the shirt before dropping almost $70 on it. One would also think that if she did bother looking at the shirt, she'd think 'Huh. I wonder if anyone would be offended by this?"

People today. Absolute idiots.

[winterweathered.livejournal.com]

I'm on team teenage hooligans. WOOHOO.

[beanarie.livejournal.com]

HEAR HEAR.

[callie-chan.livejournal.com]

I think this is a sign from the heavens themselves that you should put a small 'Designer not liable for injuries incurred by rabid goth fangirl attacks' disclaimer on the back of your Twilight shirt, TP.

Alternately, if you get mauled when wearing yours, can you sue the author of the books for their miserable writing inspiring you to make the T-shirt? I think we can bring this full circle.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

The fail flag is flying high, but I must add this tiny observation:

"He reminds me of Adolf Hitler," BRAUN explained.

So... he wants to marry Obama just before they cover themselves in gasoline and take poison, shoot themselves in the head, and light themselves on fire?

[shadowpoet89.livejournal.com]

My faith in humanity dwindles every day. Christ, it's like a full circle of fail. I'm not sure I've ever seen that before.

[wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com]

There are so many things wrong with that story that I cannot even begin to comment.