For $100 (USD) you can smash Bernie Madoff in tiny bits and pieces. Why are you smashing Madoff in effigy? Because he snookered you out of millions of dollars.

“He lost quite a bit of money and he was pretty grumpy about the whole thing,” Mr Warring was quoted as saying.

“So I made him this little action figure of Bernie Madoff… I put a hammer in the box and I said, ‘Listen, when you get this thing, just smash it to pieces – it’ll make you feel better, and then go bury it in the backyard and put it behind you’.

“So he did it, thought it was terrifically funny, and then he started telling some of his mates about it and before you know it, everyone’s started to order these things.”

Some people find pictures of the swindler on the internet, print them in full color, attach them to dart boards, and let loose with pointed drunken fury. Not you. You’re spending 100 bucks to destroy and inanimate object shaped like the man who hurt you most in life. And if you like doing that too much, you have to buy another and another and another to fill your lust for revenge.

Normally I wouldn’t object to object oriented violence. But spending money to feel better is probably what got you in this mess in the first place.

(via ben templesmith, bbc news)