$72.9M Owed Royalties Finally Paid To Super Soaker Creator

[Originalman]

Great to see this brotha get paid. I have known about him for years.....he even has a mention at the Chicago museum of science and industry.

 

[JLova]

Water fights. Used to love em as a kid. Girls would wear white t's and we'd try to soak their titties. The innocence

 

[Rawtid]

White people cant stand when you take credit for shyt they stole from you.

this win!!

 

[Paper Boi]

#blackexcellence

he deserves it. i had so much fun with those super soakers as a kid. i remember me and my dad getting my first at the hardware store.

these days you'd probably get clapped by the cops for brandishing some alien halo gun.

 

[Fade Runner 2049]

As a kid I seen some dudes walk around with this during carnival. I was jealous but I couldn't afford to get them for my own, my moms just got me those cheap ones that look like

Smh and the water plug always pops out and ya gun leaking , by the time you shoot it there's only a little pathetic squirt left

 

[Amerikan Melanin]

Yall need better reading comprehension. He was getting paid but he was getting UNDERPAID in royalties. Meaning the company was bullshytting the numbers sold. This is why he forced them to open books and the judge seeing that had no choice but to rule in his favor. The 72.9mil was money they were holding back from dude.

This is great news regardless. He needs to start teaching seminars.

 

[Unknown Poster]

It's awesome to know a black man was behind one of my favorite childhood toys.

I'm happy for this.

 

[Unknown Poster]

Real talk

Super soaker was having an arms race when I was a kid

super soaker 100

super soaker 200

super soaker 300

That super soaker with the quick refill you just press the gun nozzle to the hose

They just kept getting bigger and bigger no homo. Kids are soft nowadays. probably couldn't even run around with a super soaker.

SO TRUE!!!!!!!!


I wish I could Dap + Rep this!

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

I dunno why this article says they've been in a dispute since February, I've been reading about this for years now, this is from 2013...

http://gizmodo.com/the-super-soaker-was-invented-by-a-former-nasa-engineer-1000981041/1460130897


And the wording is similar...that he won the dispute, so did dude actually get his check yet, or nah?


Corporate America cheats Uncle Sam, they cheat their employees, they cheat consumers, and they cheat outside contractors/inventors like Mr. Johnson. I don't see why so many regular Americans defend this scum

 

[DrunkenNovice]

People selling OGs on ebsy for hundreds

I had this one

 

[Rekkapryde]

Google who invented the original formula and they never paid him for it....

might need a thread on this shyt.

 

[Miles Davis]

A black man created the super soaker

Man created a big part of my childhood

 

[ORDER_66]

might need a thread on this shyt.

There was... I just couldnt find it...

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

 

[Bernie Madoff]