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BlackBerry addict gets life-sized Storm tattooed on his leg

November 11th, 2008 by Tom

Stand aside Zune Guy, there’s someone out there willing to go to even greater lengths to publicly declare their love of a piece of hardware via the medium of Indian ink and public self-abasement.

One T.J. from Toledo, Ohio, who goes under the alias of ‘Stressed’ on the CrackBerry.com forums – ‘the #1 site for BlackBerry users and abusers’ – boldly stepped up to the plate when aforementioned website launched their ‘What Would You Do for a BlackBerry Storm?’ contest.

Of the 187 BlackBerry addicts who said that they would get the image of a BlackBerry handset or the CrackBerry logo indelibly etched into their flesh, it was T.J.’s life-sized representation of the BlackBerry Storm, that earned him his prize – the first of ten BlackBerry Storms to be given away by the guys at CrackBerry.

The tattoo comes complete with the circular ‘CB’ insignia, and the barely legible and heretical legend ‘iPhone Sucks’ scrawled underneath it, all permanently engraved on the back of his right leg, just below the calf muscles.

The tattoo was done by one Brian Krabach of Revelation Tattoos, who is seen in the video below sporting an iPhone t-shirt.

Apparently something of an Apple iPhan – T.J. secured himself the first prize on account of having the gall to get a card-carrying iPhone lover to scrawl an insult to his beloved device onto the body of a paying customer. ‘This is going to hurt me more than it hurts you,’ etc.

As proof of his efforts, CrackBerry.com have uploaded a series of pics, some of which you can see here, plus this video on YouTube.

Towards the end of the video, you can catch a snippet of the Tool song ‘Four Degrees’ from the Undertow album playing in the background – Brian may be a rabid Apple fanboy, but at least he has good taste in music.

We are wondering about the 186 tattooees who didn’t win. Bet they feel kinda stupid.

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