Samsung: Defeated, pays Apple in coins of 5-cent carried by 30 trucks

Last week I read an interesting article regarding patent issues between Apple and Samsung. According to the news, Samsung was required to pay substantial amount of money to Apple as they have breached the patent. It seems that anything can sound real online, and 9Gag.com proved just that with their story on Samsung’s payment of 30 trucks of 5-cent coins.

Paperblog.com carried a story originating from 9gag.com, a website described to be “reversed for z-list memes and screenshots of Facebook statuses.” The accompanying slideshow carries a meme with the Samsung coins rumor.

According to paperblog.com, 30 trucks arrived at Apple headquarters in California. The security did not let the trucks in over scheduling and authorization issue, but a CEO to CEO phone call supposedly prompted security to clear the way for the trucks.

It gets even funnier, according to the hoax news: The legal documents signed by Apple and Samsung did not specify a manner of payment by which Samsung could pay apple for patent infringement.

The paperblog story also quoted Lee Kun-Hee, Chairman of Samsung Electronics, as saying: "You can use your coins to buy refreshments at the little machine for life or melt the coins to make a computer, that's not my problem: I already paid them and fulfilled the law."

The delivery of more trucks was supposedly to be completed within a week's time. On Tumblr and other social networks, users posted various reactions on the news and became viral for couple of days. Others rode on the issue by expressing how they felt about Samsung as device maker.