Has the dumbness of the late 90s come back to plague the interactive world? Is the ghost of the Pets.com sockpuppet haunting Silicon Alley? Are the days of Flooz and Beanz and tightpants.com back as indicators of Bubble 2.0?
Here’s one found by Constantine von Hoffman at Collateral Damage. A video site with the unfortunate name of CashTomato.com took to the streets of New York’s Union Square to hand out tomatos and envelopes containing $29. A melee ensued.
He missed the YouTube video:
Nothing a solid launch party with an open bar and an angst ridden teen band can’t fix
This should be a hands-down winner of the Darwin Awards.
Hand out cash? In NYC? They deserve what they got for that stunt.