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Man who bought fake Rolex watches faces stiff fine
Seattle Times | Submitted by: lookout
"Mike Korpi wanted some trinkets for his children and grandchildren from his trip to China, so he spent $14.40 for eight junky knockoff Rolex watches. Now he may pay a fine that could have bought eight real ones."
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From: dankbear420 [dank]
Date: 10-May-2007 13:39
excuse me, but please update the boners or as steve martin would say excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuusssssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeee me
From: teratomarty
[Self-made man]
Date: 10-May-2007 13:50
Glad as I am that there is finally a fine for public stupidity, I'm really depressed by the extent to which our legal system is driven by money-grubbing megacorps protecting their earning power. Capitalism, what are you gonna do?
From: stripes919 [anal seepage]
Date: 10-May-2007 13:53
Maybe he'll pay the fine in "funny money" jus for laughs.
From: uppitynegro
[Uppity Negro]
Date: 10-May-2007 14:36
Why aren't the very obvious fakes considered in the same vein as parodies of famous people, or of advertising? Because the law's wording was a legislative action. Oh wait, it was actually some concerned lobbyist lawyer who dreamed up the words to the ruling. UN
From: misterjeff
[(actually it's Steve)]
Date: 10-May-2007 15:06
Fuck, for $40 and courtesy of "Risky" (Don't tell me I'm the only one that watches "Everybody Hates Chris") on the corner of 2nd and Pike st. in Seattle I am the proud owner of a Rolex Oyster Perpetual Day-Date. It's a knock off and for anyone that knows their watches the ticking second hand is a dead giveaway but it looks good and astonishingly passable and it keeps time just as good as any other watch.
From: sandy71
[Andrew Woods]
Date: 10-May-2007 15:35
LOL! My advice to him, is to tell the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, to go and fuck themselves.  If only he had bought them on eBay instead.
From: barghest [buck fush]
Date: 10-May-2007 15:57
This crap makes perfect sense once you admit that the U.S. Government only cares about protecting the profits of its corporate masters, and does not give two shits about protecting its borders or its people, which is what it was created to do. Thanks for letting us down again, BushCo.
From: scodge [Johnsmith99]
Date: 10-May-2007 16:30
My dad has a Rolex Oyster Presidential. It's a pretty nice watch, but really only valuable because it's made of solid gold. The Timex I bought for work keeps better time.
From: rollout [dan]
Date: 10-May-2007 16:58
They should do that with al the CHINA shit!! Alot of people would have their jobs back. Good for the IDIOT, make an example out of him...LOL
From: facetious [smart ass]
Date: 10-May-2007 18:28
Maybe he'll pay the fine in "funny money" jus for laughs. Yup that would be really funny. Glad to see the US is protecting the interest of big business. So does this mean that the drug companies will be able to sue people who buy generic drugs? It's not like this guy could or would buy the real thimg (ok maybe coke). There are look alikes everywhere of almost anything you want.
From: studgerbil
[Stud]
Date: 10-May-2007 18:29
You know what is rotten about this? There's a US citizen who flies to China and back, and the Department of Homeland Security spends MONTHS <TRYING> to contact him, with no success, using the address of an ex-wife? Think about that every time you bend over and spread 'em at the airport. These people are clueless.
From: jayjg [Jayjg the Jew]
Date: 10-May-2007 19:54
I'd rather take a fine stiffy up my ass than a stiff fine up my Leumi Bank account.
From: cmg1010 [Jeffey]
Date: 10-May-2007 20:32
Dude when I was in IRaq the iraqis would sell us all kinds of shit like that. People would buy all the fake watches as gifts. hell we even bought shitloads of bootlegged movies. The only deal on the boot legged movies was that you could only have one copy of each movie. I was shaking and baking a month before any you fucks saw it in the movie theater.
From: beavis4000 [Who?]
Date: 10-May-2007 21:21
So what the hell isn't counterfeit in China?
From: dmanhack [Scott Sandlin]
Date: 11-May-2007 06:41
Hell, he was just taking her femoral pulse. She just miss understood his intentions.
From: signhide [Dirty Doug]
Date: 11-May-2007 08:22
trinkets for his grandchildren???....yeah, thanks for the junk pops. Why not give me a flyer for a garage sale?
Updated: 16-May-2007 15:03
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