B.C.'s Thor Suing Segway Founder Michael Kamen

12/7/01 - Thor, of B.C. comics fame, is reportedly filing a lawsuit against inventor Michael Kamen for copyright infringement. According to the suit, Mr. Kamen "willfully pirated blueprints for his new invention, known in the press as 'It'".

As evidence, Thor's team of lawyers, which include Grog and "the literate caveman with the pegleg", claimed that "it", which costs $3000, has existed in printed form since 1958, the first year Johnny Hart published B.C."The evidence is clear. Thor not only developed the personal transporter, he perfected it. Just because American copyright law did not exist in 38000 BC is no reason to deny Thor of the patent. The personal transporter has seen many variations throughout the Jurassic period, as chronicled in the pages of B.C. comics.. All of them were driven by Thor's genius."

The legal team maintains that Kamen's claim that the product is "revolutionary" is "ludicrosity of the highest order" considering the ubiquity of the product since prehistoric eras.

In a related lawsuit, the NAACP asserts that the promotional videos for the Segway product are racist, as "no blacks are portrayed in the advertisements at all." Apparently this lawsuit is being met with a mixed reaction in the African-American community, as many prominent members reportedly "wouldn't be caught dead" using the product.