Fundraiser for harassed bus monitor exceeds $661K

[spanky123]

Originally Posted by VicHockeyFan

^ Bah, people can do whatever they want with their own money.

It'll get spent the same in this woman's hands as in their own. I'm cool with it.

Just shy of $652k.

Agree with you there. It just seems strange that people would continue to give money to someone when any goal being sought has long since been accomplished.

[VicHockeyFan]

Originally Posted by spanky123

Agree with you there. It just seems strange that people would continue to give money to someone when any goal being sought has long since been accomplished.

I think for kicks some might be giving a token amount now, so they are "part" of the feel-good story.

[spanky123]

Originally Posted by VicHockeyFan

I think for kicks some might be giving a token amount now, so they are "part" of the feel-good story.

In any event it is good news for the fundraising site. Looks like they get 7% of anything raised.

[VicHockeyFan]

$656.

[Dylan Leblanc]

When my donation is registered the total will bump up to $666.

[LJ]

^You have bad credit or something, it registered my donation right away.

[arfenarf]

I got pulled into one of these recently, the contretemps between the comic The Oatmeal and a bottomfeeding site called funnyjunk.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/techn...rticle4350216/

The Globe story has a good summary, although the drama has kept unfolding daily. I also agree with much of their analysis.

In short, The Oatmeal complained that funnyjunk was hosting Oatmeal comics without permission (true), and did it in a silly illustrated way. A year later, funnyjunk's lawyer claimed they had been libelled and demanded $20k. There *are* interesting legal opinions on either side, but this devolved quickly into self-destructively stupid litigious behaviour from funnyjunk and their lawyer. The details are left for the interested reader to Google.

The Oatmeal decided they would raise the $20k online, send a photo to the lawyer, and then donate it to charity. They landed the $20k within an hour and closed yesterday with $211k. I pitched in a few, mostly for the pleasure of helping stick it to a jerk. And, probably, for the pleasure of being a part of something. I've spent more for less happiness.

So, while I was not at all moved to send money to the bus supervisor, a different campaign did capture my attention and struck me as a good way to spend my lunch money that day. OK. A week's lunch money.

Yours in peanut butter sammiches,

A

[VicHockeyFan]

$661.5k