Python skin-covered HOON headphones likely to get PETA in an uproar
By Laura June 
posted Jul 1st 2009 8:23PM
posted Jul 1st 2009 8:23PM
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Save the planet, kill yourself.
second!
Save society, kill a PETA member.
PETA= People Eating Tasty Animals ???
WRONG! Save a toddler, kill a python.
If they made these things in Florida, they could be $100.
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE56067K20090701
If you're feeling down and out with what your life is all about, lift your head up high and blow your brains out!
Actually Florida is starting to become overrun with pythons so if they are going to start killing off an invasive species why not use part of them for something?
It would be one thing if these guys we using snake skins to make the headphones look awesome, but they look stupid. I wouldn't be caught dead with these on my head.
It would be one thing if these guys were using snake skins to make the headphones look awesome, but they look stupid. I wouldn't be caught dead with these on my head.
Save a horse, ride a Cowboy?
I bet it sssssssssssssssoundssssss bad too.
I see what you did there.
if those are the actual headphones, they must be using some of the most symmetrical reticulated python skins EVER!
it's almost as if they have never seen a real snake...
Chennheiser drivers. 10,000% mark-up. Discomfort Plus Plus.
Covering electronics in exotic leather is just asking for some kind of subculture I don't think anyone wants.
Are they gunna make a C++ covered version?
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No, but they come in Ruby!
Badum bum, tss! :D
Haha nice one!
HAHA! Seconded. Awesome.
They have a pimped-out version that's adorned with perls.
If someone makes one more "ssssssssss" joke, I will kill an endangered whale.
Pffft, cool your jets! SO far, only one ssssssss-joke has been made. Geez, you only give us a one-foul chance before you kill the whale?
Absolutely. Clubbing baby seals has gone out of style. Endangered whales are all the rage these days.
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Are you Japanese? Or are you Norwegian?
Well, right about that time people, a fur trapper, who was strictly from commercial, had the unmitigated audacity to jump up from behind my ig-a-loo and start a-whippin on my favorite baby seal with a lead-filled snowshoe.
Thar she blows, another joke whiner
lol I thought of that too.
I meant to reply to dsteve303 -_-
LOL That's incredibly lame. If you can't make a good product put some dead animal skin on it and add a zero to the pricetag... sounds like a plan! Oh, by the way, PETA is much to busy working on the plight of the flys at the moment.
I'll take 20. Along with a whole BBQed cow, duck, pig, one of every edible bird, and a salad.
I'll do ANYTHING to piss PEDO-er... PETA off.
What's the big deal about PETA? Why should People Eating Tasty Animals care about this?
Salad? You murderer! Think of those living, breathing vegetables!
Python, birch, goat. All are perfectly renewable/sustainable materials.
+1 to you, sir.
you are blessed with a great sense of humor , what if tomorrow we have no animals should we go for human meat and skin also since it is also renewable and biodegradable ? sir u are in a notion that humans are advancing but see things behind the scene , we are going back to stone age [less brain more instinct] , killing for survival or pleasure ? , behind our tuxedo we all are like animals [no mercy]
I bet they still kill less animals for these than PETA does.
luckily that prohibitive price tag means that there won't be many other snakes, or goats dying on account of these cans.
weak sauce, you could do something better for $160 without killing stuff :).
Fuck PETA.
At least your Ted Nugent albums should sound good on these.
nice
I, for one, am a proud member of People for the Eating of Tasty Animals.
Imagine the sssilibance on these!
But in all seriousness, it's a stupid concept.
And by uproar, you mean hissy fit.
(Get it, because of snakes?)
I genuinely LOL'd at the title of this article.
Harry Potter just came.
+1 zing!
Additionally I think we might upset Aberforth by using goats.
PETA = Organized Terrorists. Bet they aren't on the Homeland Security watchlist.
's tight but I'd rather have some Ingrid Newkirk skin headphones.
anything that pisses PETA off makes me smile!
Fuck PETA. but why on earth do we need to kill pythons to make some obscure, completely unnecessary shiny headphone ? a carbon fibre arc would have been much better - looked better, and would have been much stronger.
Because they can. maybe a baby seal set next. PETA used to have good goals, but now they are a laughing stocl\k. Look what those losers did when the anointed one, oops Obama, killed a fly. They went nuts.
There's a time when PETA wasn't nuts?
That's like saying there was time when Pol Pot was people loving Cambodian prime minister.
I wonder if these Hoons have a cetain tang to them...
I'd much rather spend the money on getting something for the sound quality, then some fancy pants design made with dead animal parts. Give me some Bose Triports any day. Ok, that was a lie. I'd much rather have my UE Triple Fi 10's. That's one thing I can't live with out I think.
BTW do you notice that everyone and their brother now releases their own line of headphones? I swear I saw some Sony headphones in Best Buy with real tires attached to them for "Extreme" bass. What...?!
Starting today we will only use 100% real Florida grown sssssnakes
ok, enough with the people eating tasty animals thing. not funny. at all.
So sad yall can't think for yourself. The media gives you this notion that bashing on PETA is cool. But you'd cry to your mama if someone kicked your beloved pooch or kitty. I hate brave keyboard typers who dont think. Do you sorry people really dislike (or even hate) animals this much? What did a snake or a goat do to you? Try to think before you type. - A non-PETA member with a brain
j9junk, if you stop to investigate them, I think you will find that PETA isn't the warm and fuzzy animal loving group you think they are. This is the same group that "saves" animals from shelters by picking them up and immediately killing them and is against the no-kill shelter movement. They advocate euthanizing all members of unpopular breeds.
As for your animals who are family -- they don't believe in that, either. They are actively working toward making it illegal to own pets, period. Plus they fund the ALF and ELF, both terrorist organizations.
If you'd like to donate to a cause that actually helps animals, Best Friends Animal Sanctuary is just one of the good ones, or better yet your local no-kill shelter.
i am not a Peta member or nor do i advocate them but how could human society justify killing an animal for luxury or sophistication ? and if today's consumer think they are brave enough to kill a wild animal then hunt them without any weapon and then see who win's [the battle must be fair enough] , u exploit others - other will exploit you [law of karma] , as lord Buddha say containment is the only thing that can show you the way to peace and harmony , so as guru Nanak says that there is enough in this world for one man's need but not for one man's greed !!!
my dear friends animals also has a family and also they are the member of our Eco-system rather than calculating the carbon-footprints count how much species of animals have extinct from this planet !!!!! respect nature , don't take it for granted , because if nature retaliates humans would be a history [remember the dinosaurs]
Actually Florida is starting to become overrun with pythons due to people introducing them into the wild after they become too big to be pets, so if they are going to start killing off an invasive species why not use part of them for something?
Fair is that each use all of their available faculty to fight including strength, instinct, knowledge, and bartering. I'm all for allowing the snakes to invent and/or trade for suitable weapons.
But sssuriously I'm waiting for the Kid Rock signature series.
This product just disgusted me so much that I just gave a donation to PETA and became a member. Thanks to the kind, gentle people on this blog who don't hate animals. They are our friends and companions here on earth. It is beneath us to joke around about killing them. It is a crude distortion to suggest an issue of animal over-population be dealt with by a cold, horrible product like headphones. Think about it James. I agree with you that there are problems to solve in regarding over-population and many others. But to suggest that headphones somehow fit into the sober issue of the balance of life on earth? I think these are two very different issues. Carbon fibers could simply do the trick. Heck, let them be recycled materials. Animal cruelty is not something we should be joking around about. I love my dog. He is 9 years old. He is my friend and a snake or a goat or any creature (including humans) deserves respect for being.
Dang. It's hard enough for a brother to keep his day job out here. Let's not get lost, following the corporate bling mirage of a product that most of us can't even think about affording AND Engadget has the nerve to lightly joke about 2 animals being KILLED to make a totally unnecessary product for $1,650 (!!!). Hello? The economy already tanked and this product is just insulting to decent people.
"It is a crude distortion to suggest an issue of animal over-population be dealt with by a cold, horrible product like headphones."
Why? They're throwing off the ecosystem in a place where they aren't even native. Standard conservation biology practice supports the concept of hunting pythons in Florida.
Take this you weirdo animal haters!
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Dear Mr. XXXXXXX,
Thank you very much for your recent online donation of $XXX.00 to PETA. We greatly appreciate your support.
If this is your first donation to PETA, you will be receiving your "Welcome Pack" in the mail within the next few weeks. It will contain your first issue of our quarterly magazine, Animal Times, as well as other helpful information about our organization and how-working together-we can stop animal abuse and suffering.
If you are already a PETA donor, we're truly grateful for your continuing financial support.
Our organization depends on the support of caring people like you. We keep our administrative and overhead costs low (more than 83% of our funds went directly to programs that help animals in the fiscal year which ended in July, 2008) and we earn consistently high marks on independent evaluations of non-profit organizations.
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Thank you again for your compassion and your help.
Very truly yours,
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Well well well, we have a terrorist supporter here!
Can we get address for anti-PETA donations too?
"Take this you weirdo animal haters!"
What? Am I supposed to be offended or distraught because you donated to PETA? Frankly, I don't give a damn.
For that kind of money, just get the Sennheiser HD 800's already......
I got a nice pair a' boots that would go great wit these things, LOL.
*snorts* As if getting PETA in an uproar is difficult. Look someone strapped a firecracker to a locust! DA DA DAH! PETA TO THE RESCUE! Its PETAman and Greenboy! Here to annoy the world!
Relax.
It's only the skin of Eric Idle.
pfft. i bet these are made from the leftover scraps from the hermes factory.
PETA can cry all they want. I won't be able to hear them whilst listening to my sweet new python skin headphones.
They should go fabulously with my whaleskin moccasins and bald eagle down-lined panda coat.
dear James , animals are meant to live in wild , they are not our entertainment box , the people who first bring them as pets in their homes never give a second thought that when this creature grow-up are they going to afford them [by cost or convenience] ? the real psychology behind bringing pets is not getting enough love from society or family or a person cannot express himself in from of other human beings so he/she gets all the attention and reciprocated love from their respective pets . today when we see a society of people accepting a animal but not another human [racist people]
i know i am going off the topic and also aware of the fact that no one on this site is interested in ethics , anyway this was my deep analysis about life , your way is also welcomed!!!!!