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Photo of $211,223.04 in cash The Oatmeal raised for charity
- dmix 14y agoI 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 14y agoI 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 14y agoEvery time I see lots of cash I can't help but think "That's not money, that's just pieces of paper!"
- s_henry_paulson 14y agoHe 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.
- TamDenholm 14y agoJust 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 14y agoThat's not mentioned on the page. Can you point me to where you found that info?
- TamDenholm 14y agohttp://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/the-oatmeal-fights-backs-snaps-photo-of-cash-sends-money-to-charity/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/the-oatmeal-fight...
- gk1 14y agoNo, 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 14y agoPretty 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.
- gk1 14y agoSupposedly he had it for only a couple of hours, just to take pictures.
- modarts 14y agoI 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 14y agoI 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 14y agoAre 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.
- modarts 14y agoNo; cash chips. I wouldn't even consider the equity your share of chips in a tournament represents as 'cash' in any real sense (until you cash in the tournament at least)
- Shenglong 14y agoI'm not quite sure what Carreon hopes to gain from all this. Even if he wins, his life's not getting any better.
- ricardobeat 14y agoThe coins are a nice finishing touch.
- alexqgb 14y agoYeah, they really put the FU in FU.
- s_henry_paulson 14y agoExcept for the confusing fact that there is clearly more than .04 cents there.
- jamesbritt 14y agoSide 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?