Be werwy quiet, I'm huntin' Wabbits...

The Internet ihttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifs nothing if not a haven for inventive entrepreneurs. This American spirit of creatively making a buck is epitomized in this delicious website a friend sent me last week. SaveToby is a website dedicated to raising money on a colossal joke. I hope.

The site first introduces into a cute fuzzy bunny rabbit named Toby. Once the "awws" and "ohhs" begin to fade, we are told that the site's pwner is trying to raise money because this June, Toby is going to die if he can't raise enough. How is Toby going to die? The author intends to eat him. His need for moeny is really just a ransom. But it's damn funny. The site offers pictures of a confused rabbit in a frying pan and a cutting board. One section offers redcipes for cooking rabbit with ingrediants that call for 1/4 cup of extra virgin olive oil, 6 artichokes, and 1 Toby cut in serving-sized pieces flour for dusting with salt and pepper. Hillarious!

Well, it's not funny ha-ha. More funny sick-sick. But it must be a universal sickness. SaveToby is demanding its patrons all donate a dollar each via Paypal to save the little bunny. Its goal is to raise $50,000 by June 30th of this year. While that is a seemingly absurd amount, it's already raised over $18,000.

The American dream at work.