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[Nakharar]

Toby will be cooked and eaten unless his owner receives $50,000 by June 30, 2005.

YOU can save Toby the Bunny!

Edited by MosJan, 05 April 2005 - 02:47 PM.

[armjan]

have paypal staff shut the account? kind of strange, I don't c why they would.

"This recipient is currently unable to receive money."

Edited by armjan, 05 April 2005 - 02:39 PM.

[MosJan]

ArmJan - did you enter your Paypal username and password - b4 "This recipient is currently unable to receive money." ??
if yes then change yrou paypal password


nakharar please DON NOT !!!! Post advertisements or solicitations

[armjan]

oh no, i just clicked on the link to see if it was for real!

[Nakharar]

ArmJan -  did  you enter your Paypal  username and password  - b4  "This recipient is currently unable to receive money." ??
if yes then  change yrou  paypal password
nakharar  please DON NOT !!!! Post advertisements  or solicitations

I would hardly endorse the death of such a cute fluffy bunny!

[Nakharar]

Apparently it's a scam....

Save Toby

Claim: Fellow threatens to eat his pet rabbit unless $50,000 is donated through his web site.

Status: False.

Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2005]

Is there really a guy holding a rabbit ransom at savetoby.com? It says he rescued the rabbit and is threatening to eat it unless he receives $50 grand in donations through paypal. 

Origins: At the beginning of February 2005, we began receiving e-mails from puzzled readers about www.savetoby.com, a site alleging to be run by a fellow intent upon killing and eating his pet rabbit unless his demands for $50,000 were met.

Bunny lovers everywhere can once again breathe easily: savetoby.com is a hoax. Although the site now lacks a disclaimer, a visitor to it on 9 February 2005 spotted one that said: "Note: this is a joke: please only donate to buy gear or help support savetoby.com." Even without such explicit clarification, certain things about the site should make the buffoonery clear:

The premise of the threat ("Send money or I'll kill the rabbit") gives away the jest. Society regards rabbits as one of the more disposable pets: every year thousands of bunnies end up with Humane Societies or animal rescue groups because their previous owners very quickly proved unable or unwilling to care for them. While rabbits do make fine pets, they also require veterinary care (including one-time spaying/neutering and annual vaccinations against disease), specialized diets, and reasonably large indoor cages, all of which represent a level of commitment many who vaguely thought they might like to keep a rabbit or two are generally unaware of at the time of adoption. Also, despite their resemblance to plush toys, rabbits do not like to be held, petted, or carted about, which means those who think they're taking on animal companions they can hug and squeeze to their hearts' content discover only after the fact that the sort of critter they thought they were bringing into their homes isn't at all what they ended up with. Consequently, any number of cute, fluffy pet bunnies are unceremoniously turned loose outdoors (where they live, on average, for three days), killed by their owners, or are handed over to animal shelters and rescue groups.

The "Save Toby" jape swings upon the notion of this particular rabbit's cuteness, inspiring folks to pry open their wallets to the tune of $16,380.18 . . . in a world where rabbits are regarded as worthless and animal shelters can't find donors to support their work.

The 'Balance:' figure which purports to showcase the amount already extorted (located near the bottom of the site's main page in a section labeled 'Premium Account Overview') is a fixed graphic, not a counter. It is periodically edited to increase the number displayed so as to maintain the appearance that folks actually are chipping in to preserve Toby's life. As of 1 March 2005, the amount shown was $16,380.18.

Similar to savetoby.com is Save Bernd! (http://www.krohm.net/bernd.htm), another "pay or the rabbit gets it" site run by an operator who threatens to turn Bernd, a pet bunny he found outdoors on a rainy night, into "Rabbit with Chanterelle" for his Easter dinner if visitors don't donate 1,000,000 Euros by 27 March 2005. (Warning: The "Save Bernd!" site is pop-up hell. If you go to that site, don't expect to easily back out of the many new browser windows its advertising programs will open. We do not offer an clickable link to it because some of our readers have reported strange behaviors on the part of their computers after visiting the "Save Bernd!" site.)

Bernd was previously scheduled to become someone's New Year's dinner; earlier versions of the site announced "I swear by God, I will have this lovely rabbit for New Year's Eve Dinner if my account doesn't show a balance of at least 1,000000€ by latest 31st Dec 2004!" (It now says, "I swear by God, I will have this lovely rabbit for Easter Sunday's Dinner if my account doesn't show a balance of at least 1,000,000€ by latest 27th March 2005!")

At the very end of the "Save Bernd!" page in teeny, tiny print is the message "it's a joke."

That same rabbit appears on www.savefluffy.com, yet another 'bunny in peril' site that promises a future as rabbit stew for the lagomorph pictured thereon unless its owner recieves $1,000,000 by 31 December 2005.

Those truly moved by the plight of Toby, Bernd, or Fluffy should consider donating a bit of their spare cash to their local animal shelters or rescue groups, entities that all too often have bunnies dumped upon them by those who have decided they can no longer be bothered to keep their pets, or to rabbit-specific groups such as the Rabbit Rescue and Rehab of New York, Tidewater Rabbit Rescue of Virginia, and Zooh Corner.

http://www.snopes.co...er/savetoby.asp

[Nakharar]

But considering...

Moroccan Hare Tagine



Ingredients:

Toby
olive oil
cinnamon
cumin seed
ginger
saffron
stock (chicken stock will do)
dried apricots or other fruit (raisins are also good) vanilla bean hot chiles olives (black) onion

After quartering, brown Toby at medium-high heat. Remove Toby from the pan and brown the chopped onion (one medium). Return Toby to the pan and add ground cinnamon, cumin seeds and fresh grated ginger, roughly half a teaspoon each (reducing heat if necessary to avoid burning the spices) and salt. After Toby is properly coated, add a two cups stock, dried fruit, vanilla (scrape the small beans from the pod), a cinnamon stick, the chopped chiles and olives (both of the latter to taste). Simmer Toby on low heat for ~30 minutes or until tender.

Plate Toby with rice, polenta, or most authentically cous cous. Gewurztraminer would be a good choice for wine to go with him. Don't skimp on the cognac either, Toby deserves the best.

I still didn't have my lunch...

[Armen]

Rabbit meat is like sythetic rubber. Most irritating experience with food I ever had.

[MosJan]

Rabbit meat is like sythetic rubber. Most irritating experience with food I ever had.

Sorry you fell that way bro
i my self don;t mind haveing Toby & fresh tabule on the 10th

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te che Yakahoma AnvaDogheri ( pakrishka ) pes klini
mi qich kulturski xosem

[ED]

de areq gnanq zonkachis tun en jamanak kimanaq Napastak@ inch hamov e,
nastayashi Napastak............ mmmmmM

[Armen]

Edward jan, zoqanchd napastake inchits a sarqum? Yes menak Goodyear Napastak em utum.

[MosJan]

et tesak katakner mi ara
menq "Nafsits" tuyl enq mek el kasenq YERB

[ED]

yerp e harmar? kataknel mi koxm