Posted on 09/07/2009 4:11:47 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
London, England (BANG) - Brad Pitt has spent $82,000 on a home for his children's gerbils. The "Fight Club" actor - who raises six kids, Maddox, eight, Pax, five, Zahara, four, Shiloh, three, and 13-month-old twins Knox and Vivienne, with partner Angelina Jolie - oversaw the construction and design of the project, which boasts tunnels, platforms, seesaws and mazes.
A source told Britain's The Sun newspaper: "Brad pores over architectural journals like other people pore over newspapers. He had so much fun putting the run together with his kids Maddox, Zahara, Shiloh and Pax."
"It's incredibly complex and cost a lot but Brad's more than happy with any activity that can combine his two passions - his kids and architecture."
The rodents - who will live at the family's mansion in the South of France - were chosen by Maddox and Pax after their parents took them to a local pet store last week.
An onlooker said: "The boys were really keen to get the gerbils and it was Angelina who reached into the cage to pet them before a store worker got them out."
Couldn't they have bought another kid from a third world country for less than $80k? ;)
P.S. Brad? You're closing in on fifty pretty darn fast, Buddy. Gonna ever marry the mother of your children?
Richard Gere’s gerbils must be so jealous.
Insert Richard Gere joke here
Richard Gere is looking for an invitation.
They don’t last long enough.
Now I wish I had Gerbils when I was a kid.
LOL! That’ll teach me to eat while reading FR>
We did. They stink and they bite!
Heheheheheh...you said “insert”...heheheheheheheh.
It is good to be in the ruling class!
We kept them in cages in the basement...not in $80K condos, LOL!
RIMMER: ...I had a pet lemming once. I loved that little lemming. I built him a little wall so he could hurl himself over it. He didn’t want for anything. I’ll never forget one Christmas I put my finger in his cage to give him some mince pie. He bit me! He sunk his teeth right into my fingers and wouldn’t let go. In the end I had to smash his brains out against the wall. That little lemming broke my heart. The little git completely ruined my helicopter wallpaper.
w...w...Wh...What...WHAT????
I don’t have a problem with it. It’s America. He made the money. Let him spend it however he wants.
He does try to do good things. Yes, I know he is a lib.
But it’s capitalism, baby....
Think of it this way: one gerbil-run seller has been made very happy because Brad Pitt came into his store! How lucky is that guy??
Look, whatever service you have or product you sell, you’d THRILL the morning Brad Pitt came in to buy $80K of it.
haha
It is good to be in the ruling class!Hold on their, guy. Don't encourage the class-warfare talk. There's nothing wrong with getting rich in America, as long as you do it a) legally and b) not with taxpayer money.
I hope Brad Pitt is man enough to admit as much and I urge you to be, too.
I always wanted to make a walk in gerbil room, where the maze of tunnels and stuff would encompass most of the room with a walkway for the people. Over and above the expense the full time cleaning job made me balk, pretty much every day you’d have to clean part of it. Wanted to do the same thing with aquariums too.
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