T-shirt news … bad T-shirts cost money and lives

May 6th, 2008

It seems that inappropriate clothing is catching people out all over the world at present. In the USA the Papa John’s pizza chain has apologised to the Cleveland Cavaliers after it produced a T-shirt with LeBron James’s number on it, and the word crybaby underneath. The T-shirt commemorates a nasty incident in a recent games between the Cavaliers and the Washington Wizards – after leBron James complained about overly hard fouls during the play off between the two teams. This led to Wizards’ player Brendan Haywood, calling James a ‘crybaby’ and gave rise to the unfortunate promotional T-shirt – it’s going to cost the chain a packet too, as a wider apology they are selling 23 cent pizzas to Clevelend residents – 23 is leBron’s shirt number!

And future Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been given notice of a fight in the making. He plans to appoint Roberto Calderoli to his cabinet, but the far-right MP has cause literal death and riots in the past, as a result of being interviewed on television wearing a T-shirt bearing a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad. As a direct result of this appearance the Italian consulate in Libya was set on fire, 11 people were killed and another 69 injured in riots. Now the son of General Ghaddafi has warned that the same thing could happen again if Calderoli is give a cabinet post.

Lebron James in the 23 shirt courtesy of ChrisChappeleur

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