Hogan to sue...

This is going to be my last post for a while. I'm going to a place with no internet or phone signal for at least 3 weeks. Maybe it's to sell an injury, maybe it's to finish a book on early-20th century sculptor Jacob Epstein, maybe it's to make chairs using traditional methods; who knows...

anyway I thought I'd leave you with a nice little video which has got Hulk Hogan crying like a bitch. This is from Pro Wrestling Insider:

"Hulk Hogan is going to the mat against The Flintstones.

Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea, is suing the maker of Cocoa Pebbles, accusing the company of appropriating his image in commercials for the cereal.

In the "Cocoa Smashdown" commercial, a cartoon character resembling Hogan easily beats Fred and Barney inside the ring. But then Bamm-Bamm steps in and pounds the blond-haired, mustachioed wrestler to bits.

Hulk, the federal lawsuit states, "is shown humiliated and cracked into pieces with broken teeth, with the closing banner, 'Little Pieces…BIG TASTE!'"

The commercial character goes by the name "Hulk Boulder," which Hogan's lawsuit says is a name he used early in his career until wrestling promoter Vince McMahon decided he should have an Irish name.

The lawsuit says Post Foods never sought or received Hogan's permission to use his likeness to promote the cereal. Hogan says he raised his objections with Post in August, but the ads continued.

Hogan says he is marketing his own products, including the Hogan Energy drink and Hulkster Burgers, a line of microwaveable hamburgers and chicken sandwiches sold at Walmart.

The wrestler contends he has been harmed by, among other things, "the unauthorized and degrading depictions in the Cocoa Smashdown advertisements."

A Post spokesperson could not immediately be reached for comment."

http://www.pwinsider.com/article/47729/the-latest-recipient-of-a-hulk-hogan-lawsuit-is.html?p=1



I don't claim to be a legal expert, so I could be talking out of my anus, but I'm pretty sure that parody comes under Fair Usage... anyway, Hulk Boulder has far too much hair to even be considered a copy...