It was several weeks ago, when I was stumbling around on the internet, when I happened upon this interesting website, Pimp This Bum.  It was apparently this website created with the intention of helping the homeless, by putting one particular bum in the spotlight…

As you can imagine, with a name like Pimp This Bum, this was no ordinary crusade to end homelessness.  It was an interesting experiment in viral internet marketing.  From the looks of it, the site raised some serious attention.

You can watch the video on the homepage, for the whole story.  It’s really quite inspiring as it shows Tim Edward’s ascension from acoholic homelessness to sobreity and a somewhat normal life.  A couple weeks ago, I watched the whole thing, hit ‘I Like’ and moved on.

But the story doesn’t end here.  Over the next couple weeks, I kept running into websites and  news articles mentioning this site.  People discussing the dignity of the homeless, and how this website simply took advantage of them to get attention.  There was some serious outrage over the ethical implications of this whole thing.

I don’t really know about all the ethical implications, nor do I really care.  What seriously upsets me, is that if you click on their About Page, and scroll all the way down to the bottom, you will find that it is signed Kevin J. Dolan.

I can most certainly say that I was not at all involved in the Pimp This Bum project, and quite frankly I am appalled that someone would have the nerve to plaster this site with my name.  First of all, the layout is cheesy and as hilarious as the concept is, it beats me in the Google search results for ‘kevin dolan,’ so BOO PIMP THIS BUM!

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