well wishing or making money ?

OK… just saw the following image on the HT site…

…and it made me wonder… what is it that these people will not do to make money ? This person (Pramod Mahajan) has been shot 3 times and after so many days is still in critical stage, and you put up an animated GIF on your site, attracting people’s attention to come and send SMSs to Pramod Mahajan. This is not an earthquake relief…. nor is it a case where someone will be benefited out of all the SMSing.

And… what is wrong with people that go ahead and actually send these SMSs… how personal are these wishes ?

Anyways… I guess the saving grace is the fact that there is also a link to a form where people can actually write message over the Internet… something non-profit.

Update 06/01/06: Due to my screw up during synchronizing process of this blog, the images abouve have been lost. Hence a tag screwed up has been added to this post. The images showed HT’s website’s homepage which had an advertisment to SMS Pramod Mahajan well-wishes.