Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 12:52:03 -0500
Subject: Re: Nike Is Wrong
From: Larry Bekich <LBekich-AT-MNSi.Net>


> Last year a shipment of 100.000 or so pairs of shoes with fake nike logos on
> them was stopped at Santos Harbour, in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo. The
> shoes were then incinerated, because Brazilian laws protecting trademarks
> gave their custody (not the suiting word here, Im sure) to the logo owner.
> Instead of donating the shoes to the poor (about 60 million in Brazil), they
> prefered to "protect customers from flawed products", which could "hurt
> people".
> 
> Thank God Nikes ensuring peoples safety.
> 
> 
> Not the Ozz guy
> Daniel


That brings a tear to my eye.

L