Now here’s a way to make some easy money from a few suckers. Threaten to kill a cute little bunny named Toby. The guy running this site is going to kill Toby on June 30th, 2005 if he doesn’t get $50,000 in donations and merchandise purchases. Amazingly, he’s already took in over $14,000! After all, he’s only asking for $1 from each person. Why can’t I think of something like this? Check out the Save Toby site for all of the details. How much you want to bet he kills the rabbit no matter what?
Save Toby
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That is absolutely ridiculous.
That is horrible! My name is Tobey!
What is the world coming to. I can’t decide whats worse. The fact that someone is sick enough to do a site like that or the fact that it is actually working and people are buying from him.
As far as I can tell, there’s nothing to buy. They’re just _giving_ him money.
He hasn’t made $14,000. The screenshot is forged. I managed to pull some copies (before Paypal suspended his accounts). He lists 2 accounts: support@ and donations@. The one the paypal link actually goes to is about 2 weeks old and is unverified. The other account is over three *years* old (kind of odd for a bunny he’s had for a few months) and while it is verified, has just over 1/3 of the verified users the screenshot claims. When that much of the record is forged, I’ve no doubt the actual dollar amount is as well to cash in on the “hey look, other people are doing it, you should jump on the bandwagon as well” phenomena.
O_o i cant believe someone would really go to that much to just get 50,000 Dollahs. it pure mutany…..poor toby. have any of you actually went to the sight? that boony rabbit is soooo adorrible…..what a shame….what a shame.
Yeah i know what your talkin’ about. i have done the pullin up stuff on his paypal thing aswell……something is kindly odd………i do believe that he is just wantin the money then he’s going to kill poor toby….
That is Horrible. my name is Tobey Bunny!!
AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
this bunny is harmless. how could he do something like this
OmG! I never knew my site I started in Griffin College with a few buddies of mine as a joke would make me this rich! I have almost reached 16,000 USD! And not to mention people sending EUROS this is so sweet. Even though some people wouldn’t care for Toby, the merchandise is cool :p It’s great because if it wasn’t for Professor Forrester he wouldn’t of let us borrow his lab rabbit!
Since when is $16,000 rich?
He has already been reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
I have gone over his recipes and it seems like 3 bunnies are needed to make this a worthwhile dish. One bunny just would not be enough. When I do bunny stew it is a lot better creamed—both heavy creme and sour creams make it a delicious dish. Enjoy. Throw in some young kittens and it’s really good.
The Rabbit must go.
Rabbit as with their cousins rats are vermin. Rabbit meat is stringy. the only thing a rabbit is really good for is lining of gloves
This is called humor. The oke is having the biggest laugh of his life.
everybody is up in arms about little furry bunny rabbit with a wet nose and floppy ears.
I think it is one of the best jokes in years
Bon apetit.
Actually, if cooked right, rabbit meat is excellent. My dad hunts snowshoe rabbits and I’ve eaten them many times.
This website says that they have captured Toby’s owner and they will kill him if they get $10,000.
http://www.killtobysowner.com
Sounds like a better deal to me…
You are a funckin psicotic man. You are so stupid and sily. Who you think this great stupid idea? You are my idolo. I will copy your idea but i make with a pig, a little pig. If you want you can help me with the promotion and the news.
You are the best.
whhhaaaaaaaat upppp to the world? All people are, really, craisy. How do you think that i pay by a fucking rabbit? Please, eat it. I think is really better that this rabbit will be make on the BBQ.
dude..ozommm….excelent idea…. i don’t gona make a donation because a don’t care the rabit…but…you are a good bussines men
Best regard from argentina
Check out shavetoby.com. At least someone can bring out the comedy in this whole thing. I’m thinking about buying one of his shirts.
That site it the biggest load of crap. Its all fake, only the stupid ppl are donating money to him. The donation screen is not real!!!!! Anyone who belive that all this is real deserves to be shot.
kind regards toby!
kill the stupid rabbitt, who the f*** cares? anyone who gives money is a dumbass and you might as well just give it to me instead. stupid people, i swear…can’t you see what’s going on here? money scheme is the word.
hahahahhahahaha
u guys are the shit
and fucking genIouses !!!!!
if u are going to eat it if u don’t get the money u should mark toby with something unique and then skin him when he is dead and take a picture of it
so not only god will know that you did it but also EVERYONE ELSE
hahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahaha
i am laughting so hard
oh u guys are the SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank the powers that be for the freedom to eat what ever we want in whatever manner we choose. If he wants to advertise that he wants to eat a rabbit, bless him. Vegetarians advertise that they eat vegetables, poor carrots, and broccoli don’t have a chance to scamper away, but a rabbit…
So I say Yay! for you eat bunny stew. Although you should be smacked in the head for being unoriginal. You copied the German rabbit site, who died, and was eaten by the way, so hey America wake up and smell the civil liberties issue, and f*ck off.
I think this is sick and wrong, and will only encourage others to do the same thing. I was already able to find one site where the person has already ate one rabbit. I wish the server would crash, so the site would be gone.
http://www.savespazz.8k.com
Just to let you know that – in retaliation to that the owner of Toby the rabbit AND to raise money for OFFICIAL rabbit charities :-
Visit http://www.pervaders.co.uk/bunny
Cheers from the Pervaders of Justice for Bunnies
PAW POWER!!!
PASS IT ON TO YOUR PALS,
Hey dummies who think this is real:
This is a HOAX!!! http://www.snopes.com (run a search for Save Toby)
ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Why not send your money to the starving children, homeless, unwed mothers, unemployed, Tsunami victims, Red Cross, etc. This is getting pretty sad…there was even a segment on Dateline last night about this rabbit. C’mon now!
It all may be a hoax but people are falling for it and it’s parody’s tobystew.com
pleaseeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!we have to save toby.don’t be bad to this prety animal.
donate to me an i will double the money you donate.you give me 150 dollars and i donate finally 300 to this poor animal.i
this bandal want to it a rabbit and we have to stop him.
I saw that site and thought the same thing. What a great idea. Turns out someone else – joking or not – has a similar site up, or shoudl I say two:
saveshelby.com
and
smashshelby.com
I just think that a sick mind who can do something like that just has a small dick en wants some attention because no one else will give him any!! And his head probably looks like Shelby’s!!!
with all the love 4 Toby from The Netherlands
Hey, I think you are all stupid for actually supporting this. its a fricken rabbit for christ sake. This guy is a dumb as hell and just wants money. Besides rabbits are good to eat so go him. What are we gonna do when people actually start gettin ideas from this and start threating lives? are you people gonna support that too? Besides, theres like 5000 rabbits out there, who needs toby? And if your so mad about it, go save him urself, stop sending useless cash
Nikki,
Threatening human lives would be against the law, but threatening a rabbit is not. Big difference there!
I think savetoby is hilarious, and I get a kick out of it. I think the whole thing is a social experiment, and it’s working perfectly – it points out the inherent hipocrisy in our society – on one hand, we love cute, cuddly little creatures, and on the other hand, we eat animals. To all the people who think that savetoby.com is creul, sick, outrageous, wrong, or inhumane, I hope none of you are meat eaters, because that would be hypocrisy in its extreme . . . I don’t like the though of killing animals, and I wouldn’t do it myself, but I eat meat, and I understand that animals die for our pleasure/nutrition. Nobody is forced to give money, and I agree there are better ways to spend it. I’m not sending savetoby and money because personally, I don’t really care if Toby dies or not – lots of animals die at the hands of humans every day. As long as they die humanely, I can accept that and can deal with it. Can you?????
Is this a “money scheme”?? sure – so what – people know what they are getting into – no one’s forcing them to buy anything. In return, though, I would expect that the creator proves the outcome on June 30th – show us a picure of Toby’s carcass if he is indeed killed.
And Nikki, the creator of Savetoby is anything BUT “dumb as hell”. He’s quite astute for picking up on this hypocrisy in our culture. and he’ll probably make a lot of money from it – so whose stupid, him, or the people who give money to him??? When’s the last time you made fifty thousand just for setting up a web site and eating a piece of meat???
to everyone who’s critical of savetoby, stop and think – re-evaluate your morals – what is he doing that’s wrong???? – eating meat? making money? humanely killing an animal?? None of these things are wrong. Anyone who cries out in outrage that such a “horrible” thing has not really examined his/her own attitued and morals.
I think that it a low attempt to get money, but it is not against the law. But ethically it is wrong. That rabbit was given life just as we were. We are no more important than a rabbit………..an insect. There is a huge difference!
yes will has got a point there equally the guy is smart for doing this. first pick a poor little rabbit of the street en a view months later threaten to kill him (witch is perfectly legal) en even get money for it, but i do thttp://savetoby.com/i/grass8.jpg think it’s sick.
Courtney,
“We are no more important than a rabbit”??????
–Hmmmmmmm, that’s a very strong statement. While that may be your view, a LOT of people will disagree with you, myself included. The human race, as a whole, has pretty much decided that humans ARE, in fact, more important than animals. Can you name a single country or culture in the world that values animals as equal to humans??? We certainly don’t in this country. I’m not saying we don’t protect basic rights of animals, (hence animal creulty laws), but animals are secondary organisms.
Are you a vegetarian?? I would certainly hope so, given your statement.
There’s a funny spoof of this website at http://www.saveophelia.org. A girl is asking that strangers help her save her goldfish in the form of an ipod.
WHAT!!!!
I love animals!! They Taste Great!!
I THINK WHOEVER THINKS THIS IS FUNNY OR
COOL YOUR SICKOS!!!!!!!!!!SAVE TOBY!!!!!!!!!!!!!GOD HELP TOBY!!!!!!!!
If you’re appalled by save toby you should see this site, makes a pretty good case for NOT saving the rabbit!
SaveTobyOrSaveHundreds.com
I will hunt and eat a rabbit for every grammatical error I see on this page. Speeling errors will count towards this. (Hey look I already get to eat a rabbit because of an ‘accidental misspelling of spelling in my own post!)
ummm…yeah…It’s definitly just a rabbit. Ever heard of factory farming? What is wrong with eating one rabbit? Humans evolved as omnivores, we are designed to eat meat. I’m not really sure what the issue is with eating one stupid little rabbit.
I must say that whoever created savetoby.com is a true genius. For those of you who cannot see the hiliarity in this, i pity you. Why you may ask? Because this is clearly just a scam to make money, and anyone who actually believes that this person will kill toby/gives money to “save” toby’s life is an idiot. Come on people, use some common sense. One more thing, anyone who wastes their time trying to “prevent” toby’s death has WAY too much free time on their hands. (And yes, I realize that I am wasting time making this posting, but I DO have too much free time on my hands) Just think the amount of time that you could be spending trying to raise money for a starving child in Africa. Think about it.
Yeah, I agree Liz – he’s a genius, though I don’t see why he wouldn’t eat him. Lots of people eat rabbits.
And another thing – this whole discussion has, rightfully so, brought up the issue of saving starving HUMANS versus one rabbit. So again, I raise the qeustion: who are the “idiots” here – the creator of Savetoby, or the people who send him money??? Clearly, it is my opinion that the people who send him money are the reprehensible ones. THEY are the ones with the misguided sense of morality, and THEY are the ones who are NOT sending money to save humans, effectively choosing a rabbit’s life over a human’s . . . talk about immoral!!!
This is an animal-eating culture, and thousand of animals die at the hand of humans daily. Anyone who doesn’t understand this, and is offended by the killing of a single rabbit (in a humane manner, for the purpose of food), simply put, has wildly misdirected morals. I urge such people to stop the emotional ranting, and try to step back, and evaluate this matter objectively and thoroughly.
Like I said before, I like savetoby.com simply because it brings such topics to light – it forces people to think and evaluate their own moral ground, on a topic that no one likes to talk about. I like the site, but I am NOT sending him money – that would simply send the wrong message that I care if the rabbit dies. I personally would rather send my money to save humans. So if all of this discussion generates higher donations to human funds, then couldn’t one argue that it was a success???
i cant believe that someone would be that cruel and stupid to threaten to kill toby. that person is a b****
you are a cruel person. i cant believe that you would kill a poor little cute bunny. you are a b%^$# .
I have donated 300 dollar to save the little rabbit. So please don’t say ugly things about him. It’s already so hard for me now.
all of you need to get a life. So what if its a hoax? so what if the rabbit dies? does it affect any of you in any way? And if it does, im sorry to tell you that hundreds of cute furry little animals die EVERYDAY! (ill wait now because once you realize one rabbit dosen’t really matter all you animal rights activist will probally have a heartattack)……ready? ok.
And if all of you are so upset about this one rabbit who may or may not be in trouble just think of this. There are REAL prolbems in this world (crime, homelessness, poverity, ect.) and the fact that you people are spending so much time and enegry on a RABBIT, well, i think it’s time to re-evaluiate your priorities and use all that enegry toward doing something constructive instead. You know, like dealing with REAL issues. But if not just continue to make mountains out of anthills with Toby. And im sure if all your whining and b*tching save the little fella world peace and world prosperity will not be too far behind!!!
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