Eras reporter Zaidi threw a shoe at Bush. We treated it as lace news, ridiculed, and then dropped the newspaper, turned off the TV, and what to do.
There is a 24-year-old British guy named Alex. After hearing this news, he was inspired. He founded a website called sockandawe and developed a flash game to Bush. In the game, the player can use the mouse to control the shoe in his hand, and throw the shoe at him when the “Bush” probe is in use. When Bush’s grinning face was hit, it immediately turned to purple and grin. The player gets one point for each hit. In the 30-second game time, the more times you hit “Bush”, the more points you score. In just a few days, 1.4 million people have hit the game. Two days later, Alex sold the mini-game via eBay. The price of the online auction is 5212 pounds, or about 7818 dollars.
The story of this shoe does not end here. The shoe thrown at Bush was picked up, auctioned and bought by an unknown person at a low price. It is said that not long after, a Saudi rich man was willing to pay $10 million to buy the shoe thrown at Bush.
There was also a shoe factory that saw this news, and it immediately announced to the media: “The shoes thrown at Bush are produced in our factory!” Soon, this unknown shoe factory received snowflakes. The influx of orders had to recruit more than 100 workers to work in the factory.
News such as Bush being thrown shoes sometimes happens, most of us regard it as lace news, then it is only lace news. If you think of it as an opportunity, it is most likely an opportunity. ■