10.24.05
Save Toby Really is Illegal Extortion
The owner of the website at savetoby.com is threatening to kill and eat a rabbit unless visitors donate $50,000. Actually since PayPal closed the account used to collect donations, the threat has changed to “buy 100,000 copies of our book”.
Most people would assume that this scheme is extortion and it’s illegal. The site operators insist it’s not illegal and defend the position by offering the following definition of extortion: