One must pay to touch the diamond-encrusted Mercedes
The e-mailed circular blurts it out with all the bug-eyed hysteria of a Muslim Obama chain letter...
"THE CAR COSTS $4.8 MILLION AND IF YOU WANT TO TOUCH IT YOU HAVE TO PAY $1000 IT BELONGS TO PRINCE ALWALEED FROM SAUDI ARABIA remember this when gasoline hits $5.00 a gallon. You paid for this one."
German engineering, Saudi style. More follows after the jump. Apologies and profound commiserations to whoever had to take these photos. Swarovski to dip an S-class in glue and roll it in a tank of crushed glass in 3... 2... 1...
Update: It's a fake, made of Swarovski crystals and with nary a Saudi in sight. [Snopes]
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And with people starving and in poverty...
The world hates the US?
It's been "bedazzled".
Now I want to glue a kagillion rhinestones to my Versa.
That would be awesome.
I call shenanigans.
Those have -got- to be crystals or rhinestones. Does anyone remember how heinously expensive those diamond-encrusted bra and panty sets are?
As the saying goes, whoever owns that car must surely be compensating for something...
Or rather, over-compensating.
a $4.8 million SL600???? Couldn't he have sprung the extra $50k and gotten an SL65 AMG? I don't think it would have meant much in the whole scheme of things...
I've got something Prince ALWALEED can touch... and I won't even charge him $1,000.
That's the most tasteless thing I've ever seen.
This has all the earmarks of a typical chain email designed to urge the gullible reader into hating and fearing "the arabs", while looking the other way when American oil executives are doing their very best Scrooge McDuck impersonations while simultaneously testifying before congress whining that they are being picked on for being profitable.
There are several of these emails circulating, one has pictures of a very fancy hotel, claiming that it is the personal home of "an arab prince" and claiming that the reason oil prices are high is because of "those people".
Yes, I attribute most evil on this world to Karl Rove and company, but I can easily see this type of "hate the arabs, and kindly look the other way" chain emai to him, or people who want to be like him.
Here the rant ends.
The e-mail also implies that the prince's wealth came from oil, but it seems Prince Al-Walid bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud made most of his money with investments and real estate, according to the Wikipedia article.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Waleed_bin_Talal
Lots of citations needed, but you get the gist.
Malibu Barbie called and she wants her frickin' car back!
Prince Waleed has some pimpin' ride, yo... I bet it's a lowrider, too.
How much to touch it with a sledge hammer?
Art cars are soooooo Burning Man '95.
At first look, I would have guessed it belonged to some faux-gangsta rapper. It's that tacky.
As for $1000 to touch it? That had better include a happy ending, because that's the only reason I'm paying that kind of cash to touch something wearing that much tacky jewelry.
More evidence that this does not belong to a Saudi: fur seats. When was the last time you saw fur ANYTHING in the desert?
2 year old pictures of a car decked out with crystals as part of advertising campaign for Garson D.A.D.
Waaaay old news and BS racism on top for good measure.
http://www.garson-usa.com/
They even have a wallpaper shots of their swarovski encrusted nightmare for you to tart up your desktop with.
Not for Saudi's, this crud is for people who wish they were drenched in oil-wealth but are, instead, drenched in tastelessness.
it's a promotional vehicle built by Garson/D.A.D. (a German car customizer) to promote their "crystal collection" of car accessories.
http://www.carzi.com/2007/11/22/swarovski-covered-mercedes-benz-sl600/
The thing was at the LA Auto show last year, and it certainly didn't have $5m worth of security, not unless that velvet rope was also a force field.
How much to urinate on it?
The US doesn't get its oil from Saudi Arabia, anyways. We get it from Canada, Venezuela, and Africa.
But, you know -- racism is ALWAYS in style.
Yeah, ok, US doesn't get it's oil from Saudi Arabia, just like it doesn't get it's walmart crappary from China. Saudi Arabia is the second-largest importer of US oil. Shell Oil is the largest US seller of Saudi Arabian oil.
I wonder if those are blood diamonds on that benz-o-gaudy.
Here's what Wikipedia has to say about the good Prince, for what it's worth. Evidently, he does own a diamond-studded Mercedes, just not this one, I guess. And some planes, and some boats, and some palaces...
remembe alexander the great while dying how he got to be funeraled