Man Sells Baby to Pay for Gadgets

nzgeek writes "This guy seems to have a serious gadget addiction: 'we're selling our son for $30k. There's nothing sinister about this, he's not going into child slavery or anything, Randy and Linda just really liked his demeanor, and they're keen on a Kiwi kid because they're usually so healthy. I hear $30 grand is really good value these days. So help me out: what would be a good swag of gadgets to get hold of for US$30,000?' " This one definitely raises a lot of important questions. $30k is a lot of gadgets, so you must choose wisely!

April Fools

[mirko]

the problem with these jokes is that unless these are totally stupid, theyll all eventually come to reality.
That's why I enjoyed the GMAil story that much : Nobody believed it :-D

Re:Legality and April Fool

[Anonymous Coward]

NO.

Like you can't run into a theatre and yell "fire".

I want to say "inticing a riot" but that is not it. Although the exact law is somethign about fale pretense to intice the public but the exact wording escapes me.

Boom.

[nzgeek]

Wow. Nice April fools joke on my hosting provider - the site lasted all of about 60 seconds after the article went public. I never expected this pretty lame joke to actually get posted.

Here's a nicely formatted version of the article text (compared to that pretty poor effort above... thanks for the effort, but if you're going to repost the article text, perhaps at least remove the piles of whitespace mmkay?)

A couple of months ago, my wife and I were approached with an interesting offer by an affluent couple from California. After thinking carefully, we've decided to take them up on their offer. My fetish for gadgets is well puplicised through this blog, and I think this offer will help me finally get those gadgets I've been coveting for so long.

That's right, we're selling our son for $30k. There's nothing sinister about this, he's not going into child slavery or anything, Randy and Linda just really liked his demeanor, and they're keen on a Kiwi kid because they're usually so healthy. I hear $30 grand is a really good number these days.

So help me out: what would be a good swag of gadgets to get hold of for US$30,000? Here's my initial wish-list:

• A nice G4 Powerbook. I've always been a Windows guy, but only due to cost. I'm super-keen to try out a nice fast Mac.
• A Mac mini for home. Our house is pretty small, and a mini would make an ideal home media server thing.
• An Alienware PC gaming rig, or maybe a hand-built gaming machine.
• A PSP and/or Nintendo DS.
• One of those portable media players like the Mrobe or something.

Happy April 1st!

[Stalyn]

2005 Britannica takeover of Wikimedia. [wikipedia.org]

Gmail rolls out Infinity+1 storage plan. [google.com]

Re:April Fools

[kattphud]

Let us not forget Google's April 1st announcement of GMail last year. Everybody thought that was baloney too.