There is a street in Hong Kong, near the Jade market, where there are several businesses who make the fake goods to be burned at funerals as gifts to the dearly departed, things they might like to have in the afterlife. You know, a nice car, cool clothes, a rolex, and beautiful home, a yacht. Chinese communities worldwide engage in this practice.
Now, being a practical people, the Chinese are not about to torch a real BMW. And it is the thought that counts, so the Chinese have a whole industry that makes up things to burn at funeral. The have all of the durability of a paper kite. Indeed, the materials are the same as those paper kites we used to buy as kids.
Now, if you are going to gift the dead, and it will be burned anyway, why not make it a BMW, a nice Louis Vuitton bag, and a mansion?
So there is a store in New York city serving the Chinese community with such fake items to be bought and burned. Problem was, he was selling a fake paper handbag with a logo that looked like Louis Vuitton. The owner of one such store was arrested for selling these fake fakes.
Never mind how goofy the police can be, just think of how much we taxpayers have to pay to support the foolish pretenses of the Louis Vuitton company. Why do we have to pay for enforce some weird legal fiction that involved Louis Vuitton and some Chinese merchant? Why can't Louis Vuitton pay for it themselves?
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Now, if you are going to gift the dead, and it will be burned anyway, why not make it a BMW, a nice Louis Vuitton bag, and a mansion?
So there is a store in New York city serving the Chinese community with such fake items to be bought and burned. Problem was, he was selling a fake paper handbag with a logo that looked like Louis Vuitton. The owner of one such store was arrested for selling these fake fakes.
Never mind how goofy the police can be, just think of how much we taxpayers have to pay to support the foolish pretenses of the Louis Vuitton company. Why do we have to pay for enforce some weird legal fiction that involved Louis Vuitton and some Chinese merchant? Why can't Louis Vuitton pay for it themselves?
| Burning Down The House - Atlantic Wire |
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