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FBI investigates spoof 'bonsai kitten' website
A spoof website devoted to 'growing' kittens in glass jars is under investigation by the FBI.
Bonsaikitten.com offers to sell 'rectilinear kittens' by putting young cats into household jars using the 'ancient oriental art' of pet modification.
Not everyone has got the joke.
The site, created by students, has attracted massive criticism from animal lovers and the FBI has now launched an investigation.
The site offers to sell customers kittens grown in jars so they end up the same shape as the container.
"At Bonsai Kitten, we achieve this by placing the kitten into a rigid vessel soon after birth...the kitten essentially grows into the shape of the vessel...producing the lovable, furry pet you've always wanted, but it remains in the shape you've always dreamed of! There is virtually no limit to the eventual shape of your pet."
Detailed but spurious information and photos of a kitten going through the process is also pictured on the site.
It also offers detailed advice for amateurs who want to 'grow their own.'
FBI agents in Boston have now ordered all information on the site to be handed over for investigation.
The site's creator, a graduate student at Massachussetts Institute of Technology, uses the pseudonym Dr Michael Wong Chang.
He said, "I really thought that the FBI had better things to do. That's your tax dollars at work."
Bonsaikitten.com has sparked tens of thousands of hate-mail messages, anti-Bonsai Kitten groups and a blistering denunciation from the Humane Society of the United States.
Story filed: 17:16 Saturday 10th February 2001
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и еще:
Bonsai Kitten
The world's most hated Website?
Dateline: 02/14/01
By David Emery
I'm relieved to say it's been a week or two since anyone has written to ask me if the activities depicted on the Bonsai Kitten Website [user discretion advised] are real.
Clearly, they are not.
Even so, the site, which purports to describe "the lost art of body modification in housepets" (consisting basically of stuffing small kittens into glass jars), has offended and angered quite a large number of people. But probably just as many are baffled by the fact that anyone would think it's meant to be taken seriously. What began as a tasteless, puerile joke has turned into an Internet cause celebre. Animal welfare advocates decry it and defenders of free speech, well, defend it.
kosinus@mail.ru
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FBI investigates spoof 'bonsai kitten' website
A spoof website devoted to 'growing' kittens in glass jars is under investigation by the FBI.
Bonsaikitten.com offers to sell 'rectilinear kittens' by putting young cats into household jars using the 'ancient oriental art' of pet modification.
Not everyone has got the joke.
The site, created by students, has attracted massive criticism from animal lovers and the FBI has now launched an investigation.
The site offers to sell customers kittens grown in jars so they end up the same shape as the container.
"At Bonsai Kitten, we achieve this by placing the kitten into a rigid vessel soon after birth...the kitten essentially grows into the shape of the vessel...producing the lovable, furry pet you've always wanted, but it remains in the shape you've always dreamed of! There is virtually no limit to the eventual shape of your pet."
Detailed but spurious information and photos of a kitten going through the process is also pictured on the site.
It also offers detailed advice for amateurs who want to 'grow their own.'
FBI agents in Boston have now ordered all information on the site to be handed over for investigation.
The site's creator, a graduate student at Massachussetts Institute of Technology, uses the pseudonym Dr Michael Wong Chang.
He said, "I really thought that the FBI had better things to do. That's your tax dollars at work."
Bonsaikitten.com has sparked tens of thousands of hate-mail messages, anti-Bonsai Kitten groups and a blistering denunciation from the Humane Society of the United States.
Story filed: 17:16 Saturday 10th February 2001
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и еще:
Bonsai Kitten
The world's most hated Website?
Dateline: 02/14/01
By David Emery
I'm relieved to say it's been a week or two since anyone has written to ask me if the activities depicted on the Bonsai Kitten Website [user discretion advised] are real.
Clearly, they are not.
Even so, the site, which purports to describe "the lost art of body modification in housepets" (consisting basically of stuffing small kittens into glass jars), has offended and angered quite a large number of people. But probably just as many are baffled by the fact that anyone would think it's meant to be taken seriously. What began as a tasteless, puerile joke has turned into an Internet cause celebre. Animal welfare advocates decry it and defenders of free speech, well, defend it.
kosinus@mail.ru
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