Cashing in on the blackout

Detroit - It didn't take long for some savvy folks to dream up merchandising the blackout of 2003.

Take a quick surf through the web and you can find just about any type of memorabilia, from T-shirts and coffee mugs to baby bibs and thong underwear - even advice on how to handle the next big outage.

"We had a laptop and we started working on it straightaway," said Jonathan Cornish, 25, of Toronto, who sells T-shirts emblazoned with the phrases "New York, the lightweight city" and "Did buffalo pay their bills?" on the site blackedout2003.com.

Blackout merchandise started popping up on the internet within hours of the outage, offering everything from mugs with a list of all the affected cities, to tote bags with a tasteful black-and-white design - "Blackout 2003" along with the date.

(Free Register)
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