Storm giveaway contest "winner" tattoos the phone on his cankle, will never find love

There are three primary rules to tattoos that we're aware of:

• 1. "I love my mom" tattoos are really cool.
  
• 2. "I love my short-term-girlfriend" tattoos are questionable at best.
• 3. "I love this gadget" tattoos have greater built-in obsolescence than sliced apples and pretty much clench the fact that nobody will ever go out with you. Also, they're really awesome.

CrackBerry.com reader T.J. fell hard for rule number three and got a life-size tattoo of the BlackBerry Storm on his large, hairy calf to prove his undying devotion and win a free Storm. He even got some video of the happening (peep it below the fold), most likely to be shown in middle schools in the coming years as a huffing deterrence. We're looking forward to a Bumfight-like battle between T.J. and Zune Tattoo Guy before long, or perhaps a support group to get through this awkward, humiliating stage of life together. We'd prefer the Bumfight.

[michaspi Posted Nov 10th 2008 7:45PM]

So, if I tattoo a girl on my arm, will I get a free one? Is that how it works?

[JustEric Posted Nov 10th 2008 8:10PM]

There's no such thing as a free girl, man...no such thing.

[michaspi Posted Nov 10th 2008 8:13PM]

@EricC:

Sure there is, but then you wake up.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 10th 2008 10:08PM]

You wish, I wish, tattoo artists REALLY wish...

[Onashi608 Posted Nov 10th 2008 11:01PM]

Ask Little Pete, I don't think it works that way.

http://images1.fanpop.com/images/quiz/3037_1211576360956_375_300.jpg

[friday04 Posted Nov 10th 2008 7:51PM]

And Engadget readers get after people who like the iPhone. As far as I know, there aren't any iPhone tattoos sitting on anyone's fat ankle.

[zargon Posted Nov 10th 2008 8:04PM]

I would wager a bet that there is some crazy Apple zealot out there that has one.

[UnixSystemsEngineer Posted Nov 10th 2008 8:29PM]

There's gotta be at least one. Thank god we haven't seen it yet.

[Eternal Density Posted Nov 10th 2008 7:59PM]

I'm pretty sure facts should be clinched, not clenched.

If you get a "get out of jail" tattoo, do you get out of jail free?

[SimonRichards Posted Nov 10th 2008 8:02PM]

What's a cankle?

[zargon Posted Nov 10th 2008 8:06PM]

cankle n. A thick ankle, particularly one that appears to be a continuation of the calf.

[SimonRichards Posted Nov 10th 2008 8:12PM]

Eww.

[ChrisAre Posted Nov 10th 2008 9:01PM]

I thought a cankle was a swollen ankle. I broke my ankle a few yrs ago and it turned dark purple and got really swollen, so everyone called me cankle for a while.

Also, there's a "that's what she said" joke in there somewhere.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 10th 2008 9:04PM]

Take a look at your mother's ankles. Now do you know?

(Oh snap!)

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 10th 2008 8:06PM]

What's a cankle?

Calf+ankle=cankle. John Madden invented the word, it doesn't have to make sense.

Also, that is a fuggly tattoo.

Fuggly=farking+ugly.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 10th 2008 9:08PM]

What about farking?

Fart + King?

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 11th 2008 4:15PM]

to quote bugs bunny: "what a maroon!"

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 10th 2008 9:00PM]

Wow, I'd like to have a bunch of customers like him!

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 10th 2008 9:15PM]

If I had a store of some sort, I would make the door so thin that people with a 36+ waistline can't get in.

[soobin Posted Nov 10th 2008 9:41PM]

I heard the N word twice from the other "gentleman" getting a tattoo of probably equal importance on his back.

It totally looks like a duff beer can.

[Gregorian Posted Nov 10th 2008 9:46PM]

My TRS-80 tattoo is still cool, nearly 30 years later.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 10th 2008 10:27PM]

What a loser

[IndiaTech Posted Nov 10th 2008 10:34PM]

OK... You are getting a BB Storm tattoo from a guy who wears an iPhone T-Shirt?

[xyrcncp Posted Nov 10th 2008 10:53PM]

To whoever this guy is:

Buddy you are an imbecile. The kind of which can only be associated with other oxygen-wasters such as Zune guy. May common sense one day enter the puny little mass you call brain.

Idiot.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 11th 2008 2:43AM]

The Zune guy looks like a genius compared to this one. At least the zune will be around in a year.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 10th 2008 11:41PM]

Well I most say, I do enjoy finding UK mobile cheap phone deals online and spend a lot of time at websites like Http://www.searchaphone.co.uk but I can honestly say I would never have a phone tattooed onto my leg! I also wonder where this guy got the tattoo done, as it does not look very clear! My tattoo artist told me never to get words or letters done that small because they will bleed together and ruin the effect. This guy is going to have one big ink blob in his leg in a few years, now thats ridiculous!

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 11th 2008 12:14AM]

there is no way thats a real tattoo, his skin doesn't look right considering all the shading and outlines, I CALL IT FAKE! , id draw one on my leg for a free phone too

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 11th 2008 8:54AM]

It is FAKE! The artist isn't even dipping the needles in ink as he drew the first line. The outline ink isn't enough to mark the skin permanently.

Nice try, but he shouldn't get a anything for this. Maybe if he actually gets a real tattoo of it later.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 11th 2008 12:17AM]

Look at those quads...how 'bout dem cankles?

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 11th 2008 12:24AM]

You gotta be kidding me that's just taking fanboyism waaaay to far.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 11th 2008 2:40AM]

As a person who is reasonably tattooed i have to say "Dear God no!!" I mean, honestly, it is JUST a Blackberry Storm. We won't even remember this device in 6 months and, for what that tattoo should cost (not to mention the cost to get it removed when he realizes how stupid this was), he probably could have just gone out and bought the damned thing.

I'd sooner get 'Sarah Palin 2012' tattooed on my chest than get a tattoo that stupid anywhere on my body.

[DrXym Posted Nov 11th 2008 4:36AM]

Anyone who gets a tattoo to win a $500 consumer device which will be obsolete in a few years is a complete dumbass. I imagine this guy at age 70 trying to his grand kids (who hopefully haven't inherited the stupid) why he has a picture of a phone on his leg.

[BratPAQ Posted Nov 11th 2008 4:39AM]

maybe its just a henna tattoo

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 11th 2008 8:52AM]

I gotta say as well, that the tattoo artist is doing a shotty job at best on this tattoo.

[looselycoupled Posted Nov 12th 2008 12:28AM]

um... someone a bit defensive? ;)