Why don't you blow me? Bejeweled vuvuzela spendy, functionally annoying
Jul 3, 2010, 10:30 AM EDT
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a person takes something ugly and annoying, adorns it with jewels and all of a sudden people will pay good money to simply be around it?
No, I’m not talking about Joan Rivers, I am of course referring to the news that some misguided Austrian goldsmith took a conventional vuvuzela and covered the blasted instrument with white gold and diamonds. Even worse, the dang thing still is fully functional. Even, um, worser, some Russian woodhead paid a buttload of money to own it. How much? The equivalent of twenty thousand, eight hundred freaking dollars, that’s how much.
Via MSNBC:
The honking plastic African trumpets have become inexorably linked with the World Cup in South Africa and have drawn both fans and critics.
The Austrian luxury model will be given by its Russian buyer to a South African business partner in time for the World Cup final on July 11, broadcaster ORF reported.
The world is going to hell in a handbasket, my friends. And the signaling of the impending Apocalypse will be the honk of a bejeweled vuvuzela.
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Austrian sells bejeweled vuvuzela for $20,800 [MSNBC]
