according to CNN interview, T SHIRT HELL dude toned his biz down because......

[BVF]

Because he was poisoned and ended up having seizures at his home....He believes that someone poisoned a drink of his.

[Nismo]

What? When did this happen?

[BV]

hmmm that sounds fucked up

[NTSS]

That's really fucked...

[ssp]

What goes around comes around.

[bhutocracy]

What goes around comes around.

Fuck off useless troll.

[eroswebmaster]

LOL I'm gonna make a shirt that says..."I started a t-shirt company and all I got was poisoned!"

[Mike Okitch]

jesus christ! Viktor Yushchenko and t shirt hell dude have the same faith. Sad

[TDF]

LOL I'm gonna make a shirt that says..."I started a t-shirt company and all I got was poisoned!"

[BVF]

What? When did this happen?

I don't know but I just watched the interview on CNN with my own two eyes a few minutes before I started this thread...I assume it was shortly before he took down his most offensive tshirt section.

[GiantGnome]

I don't know but I just watched the interview on CNN with my own two eyes a few minutes before I started this thread...I assume it was shortly before he took down his most offensive tshirt section.

I saw it to but i didnt believe his story.

[Spunky]

I seen the same interview..he had shitloads of C&D's and death threats..there is enough fruit loops out there to do shit like that

[SetTheWorldonFire]

Lie or not, it's great promo

[r3ap3r]

That is fucked up

[bhutocracy]

I seen the same interview..he had shitloads of C&D's and death threats..there is enough fruit loops out there to do shit like that

I can't believe he didn't cover his ass for that stuff with blind companies, PO boxes etc. I know it's a lot harder running a large company like that especially with a large shipping component.. but you'd still think there would be a way to do it without letting people in on who you were and where you lived even if the shipping arm of it couldn't be hidden.

He was prolly the victim of a gay rapist with rohies that wanted his ass.. not some fanatic

[abadfish]

What a fucking pussy if true... I'm sure he's made a ton of money.

[Vitasoy]

He made tons of money already.. I don't blame him.

[lagwagon]

Wow that sucks.

[webgurl]

i just saw that on the news . Holy shit that guy is fuggin HOT !!! Yikes

[sniperwolf]

that's so fucked up...too bad for him

[sweetcuties]

Yea, I saw that CNN piece around 5:30 this morning and I saw it again close to 3. It's fucked up... he had to do what was best for him.

[devilspost]

whoever did that shit is a fucking terrist.

[Mrs. Lenny2]

It's too bad he was poisoned. I remember reading some of the e-mail he received for his "Arrest black babies" t-shirt. There were some really pissed off people sending him e-mail.

I've purchased stuff from his site and, while I don't necessarily agree with some of the statements on his t-shirts, there is such a thing as free speech. People say worse things than this every day (a lot of it here on GFY). He just happens to silk screen them onto t-shirts and makes a profit from it.

[Monique Niccole]

i just saw that on the news . Holy shit that guy is fuggin HOT !!! Yikes

Fuck the poisoning. How hot are we talking? Pics?

[QuaWee]

LOL I'm gonna make a shirt that says..."I started a t-shirt company and all I got was poisoned!"

[Wiggles]

damn that is crazy, fucked up stuff some people will do.

[BlueDesignStudios]

LOL I'm gonna make a shirt that says..."I started a t-shirt company and all I got was poisoned!"

LOL

[sickkittens]

Anyone have a link to this?

[gecko]

When it comes life threatning... it's not worth it

[steffie]

I have a Partner Program with them for years now.. Its awesome, I bought some Tshirts of him as well... Fuck sorry to hear that. I loved his t-shirts

[Paraskass]

this thread is useless without his adress and picture.

[BIGTYMER]

Awesome promo for them.

[boner 2.0]

shit... that seems real

http://www.tshirthell.com/images/removed2.gif
http://www.tshirthell.com/hell.shtml

t-shirt hell rocks.

[eroswebmaster]

surprising..he makes a statement on CNN and then brings the shirts out of retirement...LOL

[TheGoldenChild]

It's too bad he was poisoned. I remember reading some of the e-mail he received for his "Arrest black babies" t-shirt. There were some really pissed off people sending him e-mail.

I've purchased stuff from his site and, while I don't necessarily agree with some of the statements on his t-shirts, there is such a thing as free speech. People say worse things than this every day (a lot of it here on GFY). He just happens to silk screen them onto t-shirts and makes a profit from it.

Now you know why the KKK wear sheets and masks

[TheGoldenChild]

http://www.tshirthell.com/store/prod...?productid=490

[xclusive]

I wonder how much he made off this today?

[JJ Gold]

Internet?s Most Visited T-Shirt Company, tshirthell.com Brings Back Their Most Offensive Shirts After Possible Poisoning.
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 7, 2005?Las Vegas based internet company T-Shirt Hell.com made a name for itself by selling t-shirts that no other site would dare to offer. They had shirts that satirized 9/11; racial and religious stereotypes; even the recent Tsunami. Last month, they took down their most offensive shirts and went as far as to issue an apology. Today, those same shirts are available, again. Why the sudden change of heart, and change of heart, again?

Founder, Owner, and President Aaron Schwarz released the following statement: ?Towards the end of April I believe an attempt was made on my life. This was not an idle threat: this was a trip to the emergency room. The doctors tell me that whatever I ingested, it came close to killing me.?

?I believe the motivation behind the attack was the ?Worse Than Hell? section of my website.? said Schwarz. ?Someone was so offended; they decided I deserved to die or to at least be seriously hurt.? Unfortunately for Schwarz, the list of people with that motive, includes just about everyone on the planet. ?Who have I offended?? asked Schwarz. ?How much time do you have??

?I took down ?Worse Than Hell? because we needed some time to sort things out.? said Schwarz. ?I?m not the only person involved. I?ve got hundreds of employees. So, we took it down and I let everybody know what happened; that the stakes had been raised. Anybody who didn?t want to stay was free to go.? With the exception of one employee, everyone has decided to stick it out.

?I take great comfort from the fact that my employees stood behind me. We?ve also received an enormous amount of support from our fans. Most continued to shop with us while they called us cowards and sellouts. That was nice, too.

Schwarz is sticking with one change he announced last month: that is his desire to help those less fortunate than himself. ?Which is pretty much everybody.? jokes the millionaire entrepreneur. He is still going to donate up to 30% of his profits to charities that are involved with the groups, and events he satirizes on his site, as well as groups that support free speech.

"I?ve decided that I'm willing to be a martyr for freedom of speech and even though I may be risking my life, it?s a chance I?m willing to take for a philosophy I believe in." said Schwarz. "If people can?t take a joke, that?s their problem. What I do is comedy. I have no ill intentions, just a passionate, crude sense of humor. If someone wants to kill me over a funny t-shirt, so be it."

[Thomas N]

Very clever marketing.

[adonthenet]

thats realy not good =\

[DWB]

...................

[DWB]

He fucked me on a domain. Screw him... he got what was coming to him. He is a tasteless insensitive shit anyways.

[Shoehorn!]

LOL I'm gonna make a shirt that says..."I started a t-shirt company and all I got was poisoned!"

[BukkakeBrown]

crazy shit

[warlock5]

I seen the same interview..he had shitloads of C&D's and death threats..there is enough fruit loops out there to do shit like that

As fucking wacked as T shirt hell is/was, anyone who is pissed enough by it to send any type of threat is a complete lunatic

[CybermedAndy]

[jawanda]

Internet?s Most Visited T-Shirt Company, tshirthell.com Brings Back Their Most Offensive Shirts After Possible Poisoning.
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 7, 2005?Las Vegas based internet company T-Shirt Hell.com made a name for itself by selling t-shirts that no other site would dare to offer. They had shirts that satirized 9/11; racial and religious stereotypes; even the recent Tsunami. Last month, they took down their most offensive shirts and went as far as to issue an apology. Today, those same shirts are available, again. Why the sudden change of heart, and change of heart, again?

Founder, Owner, and President Aaron Schwarz released the following statement: ?Towards the end of April I believe an attempt was made on my life. This was not an idle threat: this was a trip to the emergency room. The doctors tell me that whatever I ingested, it came close to killing me.?

?I believe the motivation behind the attack was the ?Worse Than Hell? section of my website.? said Schwarz. ?Someone was so offended; they decided I deserved to die or to at least be seriously hurt.? Unfortunately for Schwarz, the list of people with that motive, includes just about everyone on the planet. ?Who have I offended?? asked Schwarz. ?How much time do you have??

?I took down ?Worse Than Hell? because we needed some time to sort things out.? said Schwarz. ?I?m not the only person involved. I?ve got hundreds of employees. So, we took it down and I let everybody know what happened; that the stakes had been raised. Anybody who didn?t want to stay was free to go.? With the exception of one employee, everyone has decided to stick it out.

?I take great comfort from the fact that my employees stood behind me. We?ve also received an enormous amount of support from our fans. Most continued to shop with us while they called us cowards and sellouts. That was nice, too.

Schwarz is sticking with one change he announced last month: that is his desire to help those less fortunate than himself. ?Which is pretty much everybody.? jokes the millionaire entrepreneur. He is still going to donate up to 30% of his profits to charities that are involved with the groups, and events he satirizes on his site, as well as groups that support free speech.

"I?ve decided that I'm willing to be a martyr for freedom of speech and even though I may be risking my life, it?s a chance I?m willing to take for a philosophy I believe in." said Schwarz. "If people can?t take a joke, that?s their problem. What I do is comedy. I have no ill intentions, just a passionate, crude sense of humor. If someone wants to kill me over a funny t-shirt, so be it."

This guy is a marketing GENIUS.

[escorpio]

Sounds like a bullshit publicity ploy. If you were poisoned an investigation should be able to trace what you ate and who came into contact with it.

[SomeCreep]

Heh, their baby tshirts are funny

[Johny Traffic]

LOL I'm gonna make a shirt that says..."I started a t-shirt company and all I got was poisoned!"

You know if you did, youd make a packet Im sure