[Infowarrior] - The Oatmeal mails pics of cash, Kodiak bear seduction to lawyer

[Richard Forno]

The Oatmeal mails pics of cash, Kodiak bear seduction to lawyer

This year's most absurd online face-off may—finally—have ended.

by Nate Anderson - July 10 2012, 5:05am EDT

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/the-oatmeal-mails-pics-of-cash-kodiak-bear-seduction-to-lawyer/

The FunnyJunk/Oatmeal/Carreon circus—which raised issues of online defamation, copyright compliance, "cyber-vandalism," and the ethics of online fundraising, and which drew in groups as disparate as the American Cancer Society, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Public Citizen—finally looks set to pack up the big top and ride the rails out of town.

Matt Inman, the online cartoonist behind The Oatmeal, has now done what he set out to do: take a photo of all the cash he raised for charity and mail it to Tucson lawyer Charles Carreon. Along with the photo of the money goes a  picture of FunnyJunk's mother seducing a Kodiak bear, as promised.

Inman posted the photos last night, about two weeks after Carreon filed a lawsuit over the entire fundraising campaign. Because of the suit, Inman actually withdrew and photographed his own money, with the fundraiser cash sent directly to the target charities.

With the mailing of the photos, the entire farcical proceeding should, if this world has any justice, come at last to an end. But there are no guarantees.

---
Just because i'm near the punchbowl doesn't mean I'm also drinking from it.