PETA To JPMorgan Chase: Give Us O.J. Simpson's Foreclosed Home

In a strange turn of events, an animal rights group is turning to the chief executive of a big bank for help. They want O.J. Simpson's house.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, sent JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon a letter requesting that he donate Simpson's foreclosed house to the organization, CNNMoney reports. If the organization gets access to the house, PETA officials say they plan to use the property to open a "Meat Is Murder" museum, because Simpson often promoted meat products in the past.

The home of Simpson, who is currently serving a 9 to 33-year prison sentence for armed robbery and kidnapping in Nevada in 2007, was put into foreclosure by JPMorgan Chase in September. The four bedroom, four bathroom house was purchased by Simpson for $575,000 in 2000 but is now valued at roughly $478,000.

It seems Simpson, a former NFL star best known for the trial stemming from the murder of his ex-wife and her friend, is just the latest focus of a PETA publicity stunt. In fact, the organization has a history of edgy campaigns to raise awareness. Last year it took aim at famous video game icon Nintendo's Super Mario because of a suit the character wears in the game Super Mario 3D Land that resembles a Japanese raccoon dog called a Tanuki.

It also made an official request for the town of Turkey, Texas to change its name to Tofurky.

In addition the group's "I'd rather go naked than wear fur" ad campaign featuring celebrities in the buff, its announcement of a pornographic website has also attracted attention.

It seems unlikely JPMorgan Chase will grant PETA's request. The bank, for one, hasn't taken much effort to help the homeowners themselves avoid foreclosures, at least according to the Obama administration and Treasury Department. In addition, Dimon is a known meat-eater. One of Dimon's favorite places to eat is Chicago's Gibsons Steakhouse, the Chicago Tribune reported in 2009.

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Comments

[Nimbo]

12:19 PM on 02/08/2012

Classic

[Bubbawubba Gump2]

03:06 PM on 01/24/2012

I'd rather share a cell with OJ than have PETA move into our neighborhood. Keep the idiots out!! I live a few houses down, we are planning a giant BBQ with whole pigs to welcome them, if they come.

[Alaskan59]

03:44 PM on 01/23/2012

If meat is murder, then all those people who eat meat should be in jail, since murder is a crime. Meat is food and not murder.

Natives in Alaska have been wearing furs and eating meat for hundreds of years, before the white man invaded their land and forced their values on them (Russia was the first white man in Alaska). I am a white man myself, who lived in a village with Alaska Natives and I own some furs that keeps me warm in the cold winter. Now PETA wants to force the natives not to eat meat or wear furs and change their traditions. How would some of you feel if someone tried to changes some of your traditions?
I hunt and fish and what I don’t use I give away to those who need it.

If PETA wants that house, buy it. I think it would be better as a women shelter.

I am all for PETA (People Eating Tasty Animals, LOL).

[deweaver]

02:55 PM on 01/23/2012

Talk about arrogant greed by PETA, this takes the cake.

[JacklynD]

01:57 PM on 01/23/2012

It is an obscene gesture and a desecration of the people murdered by OJ. The memory of Nicole Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman deserve better than mockery. The house should be raised, the street address changed and everyone move on.

[Bubbawubba Gump2]

03:09 PM on 01/24/2012

But its a nice house, why waste it? He didn't kill anyone here.Even if he killed Nicole, they trumped up the charges in Vegas. Two wrongs make a right?

[bradenton]

01:47 PM on 01/23/2012

That's just bloody awful!

[gneep]

01:41 PM on 01/23/2012

The heck with peta, give the house to me and I will sell it and give the money to more deserving people.....(me)...and cheapndumb is as cheapndumb does!

[msperry1123]

12:39 PM on 01/23/2012

As a life-long vegetarian and animal lover, I wish PETA would just SHUT UP. You make us (vegetarians and vegans) all look like a bunch of lunatics.

[thejazz]

11:48 AM on 01/23/2012

It would probably save the bank money to do this, they wouldn't have to worry about maintenance, and the investors who purchased the mortgage from them are already screwed anyway. Even though I eat meat, I would go see it! Meat is murder is a great name and it was a great album!

[blondd780]

10:58 AM on 01/23/2012

If Chase Bank "gives" this house to PETA, I hope they lose so much money they have to close down. It is your right to not eat meat, or use goods made from animals, but you can't put your fanaticism off on everyone else. If the house is in foreclosure PETA will have a chance to purchase the home like anyone else.

[gneep]

01:39 PM on 01/23/2012

Jesus ate Lamb and fish.

[bigfootphd]

09:46 AM on 01/23/2012

If man weren't meant to eat meat, we wouldn't be able to digest it correctly for sustenance.

[J0E1]

10:48 AM on 01/23/2012

Our mouths would also be full of molars.

[mhwyman7]

07:33 AM on 01/23/2012

Give us? please, where's all your high dollar celebrities now? pay for it. give it to the Brown's and the Goldmans then maybe they'll light it on fire stand there and video it, then mail that son of a bit*h to watch while he rots in prison.

[Father Tom]

02:15 PM on 01/22/2012

"they plan to use the property to open a "Meat Is Murder" museum, because Simpson often promoted meat products in the past."

The obvious follow-up punchline is just too easy

[stape45]

01:44 PM on 01/22/2012

Ms. Simpson and her valiant guest,
Should forever more in peace rest,
So I clearly detect,
Some profound disrespect,
Tainting Peta’s uncaring request.

[plasmaorb]

12:54 PM on 01/22/2012

I always say I dont trust a person who doesnt eat meat, especially pork.. cause there tends to be something very wrong with them. I have yet to meet a vegan who I didnt think was bon.kers.

[stape45]

01:27 PM on 01/22/2012

Just remember: Three fingers pointing back atcha.