Pamela Rogers action figure gets over 28,000 Web site hits
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The one-of-a-kind figure is currently selling on eBay and had received 28,099 hits as of last night.
Loveand, Colo., resident David Johnson, 36, created the 6-inch clay figure by hand in about eight hours. Johnson makes similar figures, mainly vampire and gothic-type creatures, out of his home for a living.
?It gets me by and I get to work from home,? said Johnson about his unusual profession. ?I don?t get to take any extravagant vacations but maybe this Pamela Rogers toy will change that.?
For that to happen, bidding will have to increase substantially in the final four days of the auction from the $112.50 high bid which was posted on eBay at 5 p.m. last night. Johnson said the action figure isn?t meant as a form of flattery.
?It?s a punitive thing, a sort of punishment,? said Johnson. ?If you do something stupid, you deserve something like this. Who would be dumb enough to make a video of themselves while they are on probation??
What?s also noteworthy is that Rogers? erotic video has made it all the way to Colorado. Johnson says he lives in a small town north of Denver where Rogers has been a frequent topic of conversation.
?There?s such a divide between what people say when they talk about her,? said Johnson. ?And it?s obvious a double standard exists. We wouldn?t be having these conversations if it was a male teacher and a 13-year-old girl.?
Johnson says it?s the second time he has made an action figure like this. His first subject was Paris Hilton after her sex video made its rounds.
Locally, the mother of the teen-age boy Rogers had a sexual relationship with says she is concerned with how much favorable publicity Rogers is receiving for a convicted sex offender.
In a previous story, the mother told the Standard that Rogers has developed an almost cult following and described her supporters as a a ?fan club.?