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11-11-2010, 01:14 AM
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#1 | | 14 dolla balla aint got nothing on me!
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http://news.sympatico.cbc.ca/home/pi...iglet/3e06c4f2 Quote:
The bank, mentioned in Vancouver Magazine, is featured on a website called thecheeky.com, which describes itself as providing "ideas to make the World Wide Web smile and from time to time frown like a baby eating a lemon."
Aileen White, spokeswoman for the Winnipeg Humane Society, said she is disgusted with the people behind the item.
"It's such an incredible in-your-face trivialization of what was once a living being," she said. "It just demonstrates such callousness and insensitivity."
The bank, with a $4,000 price tag, is described on thecheeky.com as "the piggy bank of all piggy banks."
The website states the bank is "designed for anyone who has far too much money and loose change."
"It's a real piglet that has been taxidermied and inserted with what all piglets probably dream of as babies, a coin storage unit and a cork plug. Make your plush overpriced apartment complete with this little guy," states the website. "We don't actually kill the piglets; they die of natural causes and these are the ones that we use."
The bank is said to take up to 12 months to produce from the time of order.
The Winnipeg Humane Society was notified about it by someone who noticed it online, said White.
She has sent an email to the magazine to express her disappointment, as well as to the website, requesting that it stop selling the item.
She said she has not received any response.
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11-11-2010, 02:24 AM
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#2 | | VLS Moderator
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$4000? That's a bit steep. $200 maybe...
...which reminds me: the roasted suckling pig at Kirin is delicious!
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11-11-2010, 07:43 AM
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#3 | | Banned (ABWS)?
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I personally think taxidermy is sick.
Just the fact of it's like having a corpse in your room.
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11-11-2010, 07:47 AM
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#4 | | NOOB, Not Quite a Regular!
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yea i dont think i will be paying $4000 to save some coins LOL
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11-11-2010, 08:04 AM
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#5 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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Lol I saw this in Vancouver magazine.
There is no way a live piglet costs that much
go raid your local highschool's bio lab for some fetus
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11-11-2010, 08:41 AM
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#6 | | NOOB, Not Quite a Regular!
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Originally Posted by Matlock  Lol I saw this in Vancouver magazine.
There is no way a live piglet costs that much
go raid your local highschool's bio lab for some fetus
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11-11-2010, 03:02 PM
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#7 | | I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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haha bio12 pig fetus
i did the dissection years ago and i still remember the rancid smell..dont know what they used as preservatives
even the human cadevours at ubc don't smell that bad
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11-11-2010, 03:32 PM
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#8 | | I came, I saw, I conquered.
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^UBC has human corpse for students to dissect? damn..
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11-11-2010, 04:41 PM
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#9 | | RS.net, helping ugly ppl have sex since 2001
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maybe its another bonsai kitten prank.
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11-11-2010, 05:37 PM
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#10 | | I *Fwap* *Fwap* *Fwap* to RS
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Originally Posted by shenmecar maybe its another bonsai kitten prank. | It's not a prank, you can buy it on the website. http://thecheeky.com/?p=26 | |
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11-11-2010, 08:54 PM
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#11 | | WHAT? NO FOOD?
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Man, you have to wait for 12 months and pay for 4g? screw that.
I rather buy a cheap piggy bank and put some change and use it as needed.
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11-11-2010, 08:57 PM
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#12 | | Rs has made me the man i am today!
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^ You seem to be missing the point of this "luxury" item.
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11-11-2010, 09:40 PM
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#13 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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Originally Posted by twitchyzero haha bio12 pig fetus
i did the dissection years ago and i still remember the rancid smell..dont know what they used as preservatives
even the human cadevours at ubc don't smell that bad | Formaldehyde? Yeah it smells pretty nasty...
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11-11-2010, 10:03 PM
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#14 | | I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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^ it didn't smell like formaldehyde. Quote:
Originally Posted by Slifer ^UBC has human corpse for students to dissect? damn.. | i didn't dissect it..so it was more just like Body Worlds..but close up haha.
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