We briefly noted yesterday that a 23-year-old business student at NYU made over $100,000 in two days selling t-shirts that trumpeted the death of Osama Bin Laden. But now CBS is reporting that the budding entrepreneur, Maurice Harary, had a change of heart, and is refunding all of the proceeds: "Celebrating over the death of someone, whoever it is, is evil in my eyes." No word on whether the newly-enlightened Harary plans to confiscate every Che Guevara shirt at NYU.
Though he had "been in e-commerce before," Harary "didn't know it would be that viable of an idea." This is somewhat surprising, given the fact that someone has a new house because of Truck Nutz and 40oz American flag koozies. But perhaps most appalling is the unoriginality of the shirts themselves. Come on! Where is "Veni, Vidi, Osami" or "Ich Bin Ein Killed Osama," or "I Watched Obama Interrupt Celebrity Apprentice And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt"? If you're gonna go into business as a war profiteer, go big or go home.
