eBay as satire

[thomson]

Thirsty anyone? I got a kick out of this:

eBay.ca: Toxic Tar Sands Water Bottle (Source: Alberta, Canada)

The Item:

- Bottled by the To The Tar Sands bicycle team, a group of youth activists who pedaled 1000 km from Fort McMurray to Calgary to protest tar sands expansion.

- 500 ml format

- label includes estimated nutritional facts (not recommended for human, animal or plant consumption)

- Sourced in the picturesque Athabasca River Valley, home to tens of thousands of honest, hardworking, and generally quite lovely Canadians who are being poisoned by the oil industry.

- CAUTION! ATTENTION! ACHTUNG! CUIDADO! : This product contains abnormally high levels of ARSENIC, MERCURY and VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS. BUYER BEWARE - PLEASE DO NOT INGEST.

Possible usage: p

aperweight; conversation starter, centerpiece for special family dinners; scientific experimentation.

Suggested usage:

Offer Prime Minister Stephen Harper a taste of his pro-oil economic and environmental policies;

Give Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach a souvenir for early retirement;

mail it to President-elect Barack Obama, and ask that the US think twice about importing tar sands oil.

[tigger]

Nice one , I love the festival of lights up there at the Fort the way those ponds glimmer in the light . Oh how i miss those Festive times.