New York's Love Spammer

Since the Subway Sweethearts are so over, we're turning our slightly interested, but mostly disaffected, heads towards the "Love Spammer". The mysterious man who has apparently approached every girl that walks by him on 6th Avenue with the same exact line. What gumption!

His name is (coincidentally) Patrick, his line is asking where Union Square is, and he somehow manages to get some of these innocent passerby to come to his "art studio" for some "wine," and possibly to pose for him. The women who fell for it are now banding together to call him out...or perhaps more realistically, to get in on a little bit of that Patrick Moberg-media madness themselves.

The NY Press has a plea from one of the gullible girls, who wrote: "Patrick, if you are reading this, we are on to you. And I feel it is my duty to alert all of NYC-womankind to your antics." We think perhaps these girls need to turn up their iPods when strolling the streets and ignore the advances of strange men.

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By Jen Carlson in Arts & Entertainment on November 26, 2007 1:21 PM

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books

come back to my studio, I'll show you my obelisk

robingee

Just a hint, girls... men really don't have "etchings" to show you. No one even knows what etchings are.

DaLata

LOL ChampionOfTheSun

justpat

Bastard has to ruin things for the rest of us Patricks! Now I'll never be able to ask directions to Union Square and follow it up with an invitation to view my etchings, ever again.

JenChungsBaby

Whatever...good for him. At least he has some balls.

ChampionOfTheSun

So, he has an art studio in NYC, but doesn't know how to get to Union Square? And then these girls follow him up to his art studio? So smart.

matty

i think the law of averages says that if you ask enough women out, one will eventually go home with you.

that doesn't sound very romantic to me, though.

JacqueMehoff

do people get dumber during the holidays?

"hey, don't I know you? we went to school together"

"yeah, you're one of them smart kids in the math club" (usually said to Asians or Caucasians)

"I need money for diapers"

Tgirl

bottom line: dumb girls

JRod5417

Good God! Really? These girls should thank their lucky stars he didn't do anything criminal.

BTW- Did this guy get his pick up skills from Christopher Walken's "The Continental" character on SNL? You know, may I offer you some champagne and a massage?