Living proof that attorneys are scum ....

[docmercer--banned]

Katrina™, The Drink?

Louisiana lawyers in sleazy bid to cash in on deadly hurricane

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SEPTEMBER 20--With dead bodies still floating in the streets of New Orleans, a pair of Louisiana lawyers are seeking to cash in on the killer hurricane by slapping the name Katrina on alcoholic beverages. In a new filing with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Andrew Vicknair and Harold Ehrenberg provided federal officials with a logo--reproduced above--bearing the word Katrina, the phrase "Get Blown Away," and a small satellite image of the deadly storm. The trademark application was filed on September 4, just six days after the hurricane slammed into the Gulf Coast, killing more than 1000 residents and leaving thousands homeless. The filing by Vicknair, 31, and the 47-year-old Ehrenberg--both of whom are graduates of New Orleans-based Loyola University's law school--does not detail what kind of booze products will bear the Katrina name. But it's a safe bet that these wannabe profiteers are plotting some variation on The Hurricane, the Bourbon Street staple. According to their trademark application, Vicknair (pictured top left) and Ehrenberg (pictured bottom left) operate from an office in Metarie, Louisiana, a New Orleans suburb that suffered heavy hurricane damages. The property, which apparently was not flooded during the storm, also houses Ehrenberg's chiropractic office. A beta version of his web site includes a picture of "Dr. Harold" sandwiched between the words "Attorney" and "Chiropractor." The graphic also includes a series of six roman columns, three of which are actually human spines. (4 pages)

What is it about American ingenuity and a national tragedy?

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[TheRightSide]

wow and most of them are liberal pukes Doc. Wanting to benefit from someone getting injured while tring to get away from police or dying from smoking. Atleast they are not suing the bus drivers in NO from driving away and not picking up people at the superdome cause they were in fear of getting killed

 

[docmercer--banned]

I know plenty of attorneys and most of em are Bushies ....

 

[blueedwards]

I know plenty of attorneys and most of em are Bushies ....

if you think most attorneys are republicans, you're smoking crack....

 

[docmercer--banned]

I said most of the attorneys I know voted for Bush ....

 

[hellah10]

if you think most attorneys are republicans, you're smoking crack....

if you think theres really any difference, then your the one smoking the crack

 

[blueedwards]

if you think theres really any difference, then your the one smoking the crack

any difference? what does that mean? difference between what?

 

[hellah10]

the democrats and republicans

 

[blueedwards]

the democrats and republicans

you think there's no difference between republicans and democrats?

 

[hellah10]

the ones in office? nope...

 

[docmercer]

Isnt this just capitalism? It may seem "scummy" but they aren't making the drink out of the blood of victims, they are CAPITALIZING on a tragedy. Is it any different than increasing advertising after the London bombings for companies that sell security cameras?

I wouldn't buy the product - but are these guys scum because they are lawyers? or are they scum because they are capitalizing on a potential market?

 

[docmercer--banned]

Blue:

there is no difference ....

Clinton fucked an intern and Bush fucked America

 

[edub69]

Attorneys aren't the only ones doing this kind of shit. I had a sofa/loveseat for sale on Craigslist, and someone emailed me asking if I would be interested in "donating" the items to some shelter they were supposedly setting up somewhere in Los Angeles to house Katrina refugees. I emailed him back asking what organization he was with and if he had the proper paperwork to identify himself and so that I could claim the charitable donation on my taxes, and of course he never wrote back to me. So many scumbags in this world, so little time...:drink:

 

[kingbill]

Democrats and Republicans are esentially the right wing and the Really F'n Right wing. Bill Clinton's Democrats were more right wing than 95% of the right wing parties in the rest of the democratized world. it would be more realistic to call the two parties the Religious and the Secular instead of right and left.

 

[weeman719]

yay for being an independent!

 

[go2guy]

Blue:

there is no difference ....

Clinton fucked an intern and Bush fucked America

:lolBIG: You guys are in rare form today