I, too, find myself in a condition where, "[t]o me, $10,000 is like $1 million" (Associated Press, "For $10,000, Woman Tattoos Ad on Forehead," <a href="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/06/30/national/a064000D81.DTL">30 Jun. 2005</a>). But is private education for your 11-year old child _really_ worth the sacrifice of having a gambling website address tattooed on your forehead, when he can go to public school?
Also, private education for seven years that only $10,000 can help buy -- assuming that Kari Smith wants to send her son to private school at least till he graduates from high school -- is probably merely mediocre, not much better than public school.
A truly elite private school would easily cost more than $10,000 a year.
"Tattoo artist Don Brouse said he and his staff spent *nearly seven hours* Wednesday trying to talk Smith out of putting 'GoldenPalace.com' above her face" (emphasis added, Associated Press, "For $10,000, Woman Tattoos Ad on Forehead," <a href="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/06/30/national/a064000D81.DTL">30 Jun. 2005</a>). The mom should have listened to the tattoo artist, IMHO.
However, since the article doesn't say that Smith signed a contract stating that she would wear the tattoo forever and the casino company wouldn't be able to enforce it anyway even if she had signed one, she may be simply planning to go for laser removal of the tattoo (which isn't painless and can cost a couple of thousands of dollars, diminishing her profit) as soon as she sells her story and cashes her checks from the casino and the corporate media. :-0 -- Yoshie
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