Family Begs for $1 Million To Buy Fancy Apartment

[hadrons]

A family on the Upper West Side of New York has placed an ad in New York magazine pleading for $1 million to buy an apartment so they can stay in their wealthy neighborhood. Gawker spotted the ad and posted it here; it reads:

"WE NEED HELP BUYING AN APARTMENT on the UWS, 3bd 2 bath. YOU are a philanthropic, wealthy person who would not miss a million bucks and would be interested in donating (or even investing) in a highly targeted manner: to my family. WE are a wonderful, hard working middle class family who contributes to our UWS community, is entrenched, happy and desperately wants to remain on the UWS (lest the city lose yet another wonderful family to the burbs). We can afford 600-700K, so you see the predicament. Can you help us??"

We're not going to reprint their email address (Gawker has it), because we don't want any of you millionaires being tempted to help these horrid people. As charities that serve, I don't know, POOR PEOPLE, make their holiday pleas for donations, this rich family has the GALL to imply that they with their 700K budget are needy. We WISH we had their problems.

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Are you donating to charities this year? What are your favorite ones? Please don't say the Upper West Side Whiners Society.

http://news.aol.com/newsbloggers/2007/12/07/family-begs-for-1-million-to-buy-fancy-apartment/?ncid=NWS00010000000001

[Ron Green]

1. Begging is an honored Free Market tradition. It knows no class.

It HAS not much class, as well.

[Wizard777]

2. This is just crazy enough to work. n/t

[TwilightGardener]

3. I hate it when people steal my ideas. Now I'm going to look like a copycat

when I publish my "Help me buy my kids Christmas Gifts" ad.

[DS1]

4. Wow, it's a good thing someone circled that with a red line

Otherwise I wouldn't know which ad they meant :crazy:

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Reminiscent of an old joke.

A beggar asks a pedestrian on the sidewalk if he could have some change for a cup of coffee. The pedestrian asks how much and the beggar answers ten dollars. The pedestrian is shocked and wants to know why ten dollars and the beggar responds that he wants to drink his coffee at The Plaza.

[varkam]

6. I serve dinner weekly at a homeless shelter.

Sometimes we run out of food. Last time I was there we had to resort to handing out cups of peanut butter because we didn't have anything else. A few hundred K would go a long way in making sure that people were able to get some decent food in their stomach. But nevermind, this family clearly needs their 1 million dollar apartment.

:puke:

[Berry Cool]

8. But they're such a wonderful family, you know?

Wouldn't it just be a tragedy if they had to move to a McMansion somewhere in New Jersey?

[iamthebandfanman]

7. yet they have the money to pay for an add

lol

[dysfunctional press]

10. you have to spend money to make money.

i'm guessing that the ads run slightly less than 600k-700k...

[valerief]

9. Must be another needy, greedy Bush. nt

[RavensChick]

13. K&R

What on earth has this world come to? There isn't a soul out there, rich or otherwise, who would even begin to entertain the thought of responding to that ad. If they can afford 600-700K, they can get a house in that range and live with it. Uh, there's a housing crisis going on right now and many are losing their homes because of high interest rates. Obviously these people forgot that.

[Whisp]

11. doesn't sound so middle class to me...

or maybe yes, seeing as it's been squeezed in the betweens so much.

[madinmaryland]

12. Stop laughing at me, DUMBASSES!!!1!!

I'll be laughing at you from my new place on the UWS!!!1!!

:silly:

[earth mom]

14. This kind of sh*t is what's wrong with America.

Meanwhile, people in this country are losing their homes because of rampant greed, while others are already homeless as the working poor.

Not only that, but 700K could buy between 2 to 5 homes in my neighborhood.

Sickening.
:puke: