How to score an above-the-title slot on the Drudge Report
By now, everyone’s heard of the website whose owner promises to butcher and eat Toby, his pet rabbit, unless he receives US$50,000 by the end of June. As with the infamous Bonsai Kitten, Snopes says that it’s a hoax.
Toby’s owner had the right idea, but he wasn’t exploitative enough: I’d like to see a website whose owner vows to have an abortion unless she receives some enormous amount of PayPal donations in the next nine (eight…seven…six..five…four…) months. (Bonus points if the “mother” fakes her photo the old-fashioned way using a balloon, rather than just stealing pictures from Google Images or launching Photoshop.)
Maybe Drudge will dust off his flashing-police-beacon animated GIF for this one.