Internet users receive periodic pleas from Nigerian princes, political prisoners, churchmen, and lottery winners requesting assistance in getting money out of that benighted land. For our time and effort (plus a small contribution), we are promised a significant financial award along with that warm and fuzzy feeling from performing a mitzvah.
According to a news report last week, we can not only help Nigerian people, but adorable Nigerian puppies as well.. A 54 year old Bethlehem woman wired $450 to Nigeria to bring two AKC-certified puppies to America. Alas, the precious cargo was "held up in transit in London" (Those Brits probably wanted to keep them for themselves). A courier requested $850 more to gain their release.
The woman sensed a scam, refused to pay, and contacted police. But what if it wasn't a scam?
Imagine what those puppies had to go through to get on-line and send the original message. Typing with two fingers (as I do) is tough enough. Typing with four clawed puppy toes is well-nigh impossible.
Having accomplished that, the puppies had to cash the woman's $450 check and purchase airline tickets. Unless Nigerian bank and airline counters are very low, the mere physical act would be remarkable.
Then, there's passing through security. Those eagle-eyed Nigerian airport guards may have let the Christmas Bomber through, but they would be sure to detain puppies attempting to skip the country with god only knows what manner of contraband hidden in their fur.
So now those Nigerian puppies are languishing in British detention. I've seen Dickensian "work houses" for impoverished youth. How can these poor puppies follow Oliver Twist and ask, "Please, sir, may I have more?" They will starve!
Is $850 too much to save adorable puppies from the work house? Let this be on your conscience, Madam!
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