Smart, or Stupid? Teenager cooks up Michael Jackson microcar tribute
Eric Callisto read the reactions from Michael Jackson fans and decided that the city-sponsored Los Angeles memorial service wasn't enough. So, like any web entrepreneur the Logansport, Indiana native created a site to serve that outpouring.
At Ultimate MJ Tribute, fans of the King of Pop can remember him by having their names written on a Smart Fortwo. They will also get their names on the website itself, and supposedly get a personalized flower delivered to Jackson's memorial – in that very same Smart – every year. And all for the low, low price of $10.
Of course, there are a lot of details left out: there is no information on the site about how this is all supposed to work, and site only has two real links on it, one of them to Paypal, one of them to a contact form. The other links are for Digg, Tweet, and sharing. It isn't even clear if Mr. Callisto owns or has a Smart. And based on the worldwide reaction to MJ's death, to pick one of the smallest cars in the world as a billboard tribute strikes us as a bit odd. But after all, an idea might be priceless, but a domain name is only a few dollars...
[Source: Ultimate MJ Tribute via Inside Line]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
ack154 8:06AM (7/27/2009)
Holy scam Batman!
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Nellydesign 8:13AM (7/27/2009)
Hoser wants to buy a smart car and decides to exploit someone's death to do it.
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Kitko 9:12AM (7/27/2009)
Yeah, the guy will get the Smart bought with money of all the folks stupid enough to contribute.
k.w.a 8:24AM (7/27/2009)
michael jackson = someone (else) getting paid BIG time! That's why his life was such a circus. The crazier his life was the richer other people got. This is why,quite frankly people, news of his death has been "news" for almost a month now. not everyone has had their share of the Cash Cow yet. i'm a big fan of his so sadly that's why I knew his death was going to be a perfect storm for scammers, media whores, frivolous lawsuits, and unethical paydays for people loosely affiliated with MJ. and this is certainly a scam
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compy386 8:31AM (7/27/2009)
You’re really advertising for this spammer taking advantage of someone’s death?
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apearlman 11:03AM (7/27/2009)
Exactly. Note to Autoblog editors: not every story that mentions a car is car news.
Shamdiddly 8:40AM (7/27/2009)
Great.
Let's continue to remember this one-manned, child-molesting freakshow for only the "good" things.
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Marc-O 8:49AM (7/27/2009)
Only small detail is that no allegation was ever even remotely proven - seems like a lot of people like to exploit him, dead or alive, to make a buck or a million...
Shamdiddly 8:56AM (7/27/2009)
I will never forget his interview when he stated one of the most beautiful things he though you could do was to sleep with children. I know he didn't mean "molest", but giving children "Jesus Juice" and saying he didn't see anything wrong with sharing a bed with a child is plain messed up. Parents having a child in bed with them after a nightmare or a Saturday morning "trampoline act" to wake up a sleepy mother or father is much more along the lines of what is proper.
...or I'm just jealous that he had a chimp and I don't.
itguy08 9:24AM (7/27/2009)
Never proven because he settled each and every time with a gag order.
And you would think that some of his closest friends (who are now adults) would be publicly denouncing these things if there was no shred of truth to the allegations.
All way too fishy to me. Usually when people keep things quiet there is some truth to what happened.
I don't know what he did or if he did anything but if it walks like a duck, smells like a duck, and quacks, it's a.... Duck.
k.w.a 9:16AM (7/27/2009)
@shamdiddly,
What MJ did with children was misguided and just plain wrong... but that's not 'child molestation.'
Protzenegger 11:17AM (7/27/2009)
@k.w.a. - That's pretty much what he said, yo.
Avinash machado 11:20AM (7/27/2009)
Michael is the Elvis Presley of 2009.
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Aloysius Vampa 11:50AM (7/27/2009)
I don't get your comparison. Elvis is still alive; Michael is dead.
tuna 1:30PM (7/27/2009)
Any sort of over-devotion to a celebrity who's made little to no practical impact on ones life is stupid. Utterly stupid. I'm sick of hearing about MJ.
"The people of Iran are struggling for democracy!" "Oh, MJ died. MJ... MJ... MJ... MJ... Iran who? Democracy in the where?"
"An American soldier has been captured by the Taliban... MJ...MJ... MJ... MJ..."
How is this not stupid?
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Protzenegger 5:35PM (7/27/2009)
Glad I stopped watching TV years ago.
RLQ 6:37PM (7/27/2009)
Some people will do anything for Jackson. ^_^
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