Photo of $211,223.04 in cash The Oatmeal raised for charity

http://theoatmeal.com/blog/charity_money

by sachitgupta • 14 years ago

118 26 14 years ago

dmix• 14 years ago

I commented on HN when this first came about:

> The entire modern TV media industry has learned how much money/fame can be earned from exploiting overblown controversy. It's the substance of about 90% of non-fiction TV shows these days.

Considering this case was largely dead-out-of-water and how easy the villainization was - the legal arguments was easily discredited and obviously flawed.

There's very little substance to be found here... or many lessons to be learned that aren't obvious to experienced internet denizens.

But what is on display is social media marketing at its finest and a perfect example of what modern entertainment has become.

count• 14 years ago

I can't imagine the terror he must have felt lugging $200k in cash around in a duffle bag, with the whole world waiting to see.

ars• 14 years ago

Every time I see lots of cash I can't help but think "That's not money, that's just pieces of paper!"

tharax• 14 years ago

Shhh! - if everyone knows, then our global economy will collapse.

toemetoch• 14 years ago

It's cotton and linen.

s_henry_paulson2• 14 years ago

He only had it out of the bank for a short amount of time, and he had an armed guard with him while he had it.

TamDenholm2• 14 years ago

Just to note that this was Inmans own money he used since at the time Carreon had tied up the money from indiegogo with red tape. Its nice to see him determined to go ahead with this regardless of Carreons actions.

brodney• 14 years ago

That's not mentioned on the page. Can you point me to where you found that info?

TamDenholm2• 14 years ago

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/the-oatmeal-fight...

gk12• 14 years ago

No, you're thinking about another picture (which has been written about but not shown). This is probably the real deal and indicates that the money has indeed come through.

codeonfire• 14 years ago

Pretty ballsy even with a bodyguard, all it takes is one bad bank teller to hand off your name and/or address. Within a day every criminal in town knows your name and where you live and that you have $211k cash.

gk12• 14 years ago

Supposedly he had it for only a couple of hours, just to take pictures.

modarts2• 14 years ago

I actually felt pretty safe walking around with a significantly larger amount than that in chips at the WSOP circuit events over the weekend in Vegas.

ChuckMcM• 14 years ago

I lived in Vegas for a while and people walked around with chips all the time. Of course when I was at Intel I once had to carry six tubes of 80386 chips (A0 stepping) from manufacturing over to the design engineering guys. (it hadn't been released yet) and the stupid marketroid had to mention that there was probably a million dollars of black market silicon there. I wasn't nervous before starting out but was after that comment! Its all in one's state of mind.

zone411• 14 years ago

Are you talking about tournament chips? It's completely invalid to compare them to poker chips that can be used in cash games or to actual cash.

Shenglong• 14 years ago

I'm not quite sure what Carreon hopes to gain from all this. Even if he wins, his life's not getting any better.

fatbird2• 14 years ago

If I donated $200,000 to worthy causes, I'd feel like my life had gotten better.

corin_• 14 years ago

Carreon didn't donate to worthy causes, he tried to prevent somebody else from doing it.

sold• 14 years ago

The lawsuit was dropped: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/charles-carreon-drops-bog...

ricardobeat• 14 years ago

The coins are a nice finishing touch.

alexqgb• 14 years ago

Yeah, they really put the FU in FU.

s_henry_paulson2• 14 years ago

Except for the confusing fact that there is clearly more than .04 cents there.

jamesbritt• 14 years ago

Side question: I posted this link earlier, and it went straight to [dead]. I figured, OK, maybe this is something of tedious topic by now and it was auto-killed. Yet here it is. Any ideas why?

Photo of $211,223.04 in cash The Oatmeal raised for charity

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