Consumerist
ANCHOR: His name is Paul Karason, and he is - blue.
REPORTER: Believe me, it's not makeup or paint, Paul Kerason's skin is a deep, blue, purple color. The 57-year-old started making the transition from fair skin and freckles to this about 14 years ago.
PAUL: The change was so gradual that I didn't perceive it, and the people around me, likewise, it was just so gradual no one really noticed. It wasn't until a friend I hadn't seen in several months came by to my parent's place to see me and he asked, "What did you do?"
REPORTER: What Paul did is use a substance called colloidal silver, might by extracting silver into water with an electrical current and drinking it. It's billed as something that will cure just about anything that ails ya, and Paul swears by it.
REPORTER (To Paul): After it turned your skin blue, you're drinking it.
PAUL: Yes, but much less.
Blue Man Seeks Acceptance [ABC30]
Comments
This guy is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Colloidal silver turns people blue, period.
He still drinks it too!
What did he think the Ron Popeil Smurfinator would do?
Anyone else thinking Papa Smurf? Colloidal silver is smuftastic!
It's Papa Smurf!
Genius!
@metschick: @OMG!!! Ponies!!!:
Oh, I guess so.
I told him not to chew that gum.
(DO SOMETHING!)
Stop...Help...Police...
Take this gentlemen to the squeezing room...
(Oompa Loompa, Doopity Doo...)
The condition is called argyria; its most famous victim is Stan Jones [en.wikipedia.org], who ran for Congress after having turned blue-grey.
I usually blue myself
This guy should be on the Paultard blimp...
Add head tentacles and he'd be a twilek.
Hey, is this a permanent condition, or if he stopped, would it go away or fade?
I don't know if I'd be that cheery if something turned me blue..
I think its pretty rude that the consumerist labels his condition as something from "an odd gadget" or "infomercial"
Also, he doesn't EXTRACT the silver in the water, it is from adding silver to the water.
But, correct information aside, it is allowed as a legal health supplement by the FDA, so I don't see why one man's condition is consumer related news.
"He gets his silver fix by putting a device that extracts silver from water by running electricity through it."
No. Like the article says, he extracts silver FROM a metal source and puts it INTO the water.
@strider_mt2k: I cant believe it took 8 comments to get to that.
It's not rude to make fun of Quacks and idiots for being Quacks and idiots.
as soon as I saw him...colloidal silver...yup...
I smurf you, colloidal silver!
@1stage: AFAIK, it is not reversible. The silver is basically embedded/trapped in your skin.
On the other hand, I suppose it makes that layer of skin quite anti-bacterial...
@crnk: Would he have turned blue without the "odd gadget"?
And as to it not being "consumer related news" -- how's your consumer website doing these days?
I think this man is a reincarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu (who is blue)!
@Maude Buttons:
Ha! I love you.
1) He say's it's from rubbing that shit on his face, is he only blue there? [No minds in the gutter, please.
2) "Paul Kerason's skin is a deep,... purple color" Perhaps he should try coming out to Montreux
On the Lake Geneva shoreline? /loves DP, sorry had to pick this song for its recognicibility purposes.
I just found out with this post that I can use my Gizmodo account to post on sites like this and LifeHacker.
Here I thought I had to create multiple accounts.
*checks silver prices*
dibs on his cremated remains
hmmm...billed as something that'll cure anything that ails you eh? I think I have something I want to sell to that guy, it's called gold plating your body. It is wonderful at keeping germs out and preventing communicable diseases. It also looks better than blue skin!
Gum chewing's fine when it's once in a while
It stops you from smoking and brightens your smile
But it's repulsive, revolting, and wrong
Chewing and chewing all day long
The way that a cow does
correction... it cures everything but blue skin
@crnk: *bludgeons your comment with a large mallet*
Maybe it wasn't from an infomercial but something that yanks silver from a metal source into water qualifies as "an odd gadget".
Also, it's BECAUSE it's allowed as a legal health supplement by the FDA that this is a consumer issue. He didn't come up with this on his own. He bought a product (making him a consumer) that turned his skin blue when he used it.
Paul moved to Madera about six months ago after living in Oregon. He says too many folks there weren't nice to him.
People gave him shit because his skin turned blue? Damn.
it must suck to have blue balls permanantly
Once the kids get a hold of this it could be the new "Goth".
i think the color of the video is jacked. not saying he's not blue, but the low grade camera just makes it look worse.
I for one am ready to donate big bucks to the NAABP (National Association for the Advancement of Blue People).
@Jordan Lund:
ROFL.
Bravo, sir.
someone get this man a blanket and a space heater.
is it just me, or does the camera add to his blue-ness. i'm just thinkin they turned up the blue on the camera to make it look more dramatic. this guy claims no one noticed? with the way it looks on camera, he must have never left the house. how could you not see it? unless like i said, the camera makes it look worse.
But what color does he turn when you choke him?
So people are selling toxic heavy metals as a health suppliment these days? What a time to be alive.
Where do I get one?
La la lalalala....
hi Papa Smurf!
@kc-guy: lol. if i was him i'd sit really still on my lawn chair in the front yard during winter, and see how many people i could freak out.
Never like them Blue Coloreds. Always shuffling around, lazy, with their blue music and their blue language...having kids all the time....
football fans everywhere are going to ditch paint and move for this.
on a different note, paul karason is being sued by the blue-man group.
Specialized silver molecules do actually act as fantastic anti-bacterials, anti-fungis and anti-virals. Not sure if it works the same as drinking it but I don't think anyone can say 100%.
Also, silver is not toxic to humans, even in large quantities, unless you get shot with a silver bullet or drink a bunch of Silver Bullets.
@num1skeptic: i'm pretty sure the folks at abc news would have pro gear; not quite "low grade." these aren't handi-cams they use for this stuff. and look at the rest of the colours in there. nothing else looks blue-tinged.
@testsicles: great name, also, my question is since he has obviously overdosed (overtime) on this, wouldn't that be like taking antibiotics for 14 years? i mean your body will most likely build up a tolerance for it, making it that much worse if you do get sick.
Does he drive a blue Corvette and live in a blue house.
Da ba de, da ba die....
@nbenko: actually i thought they did look more blue during the interview. and i'm sure the camera costs more than my house, and therefore if they wanted to turn up the blue (only when he was on the screen) they could.
@num1skeptic: Did you see the video?
He's freakin' blue.
What an absolute retard. And he dare complain that people stare at him? He's blue! By his own fault! For drinking a WOO WOO PRODUCT. I seriously doubt that his little cure is as much of a cure-all than he claims.
Someone get Randi!
@num1skeptic: as far as I understand, the silver ions basically "shred" bacteria, fungi, virus, and maybe even cancer cells. The silver ions, if provided in sufficient quantity create something like 4 or 5 different reactions and processes in the cells. Therefore it's almost impossible to build up a resistance to it. A random mutation may get around 2 processes, or even 3 but a random mutation that perfectly adapts to 5 different processes the silver creates has almost a zero probability.
@m0unds: So you'd be depressed if you turned blue? :P
@gokor: i'm not arguing that he's blue, tard, just how blue is he really. that how could even he not notice, overtime or not, let alone friends, or clerks at stores he frequents.
i know its hard to let someone be a skeptic, and even harder to be on a thread without bashing someone, but quit looking for an arguement.
i'll save you some time, i win you lose, i'm right you wrong, my dad can beat up your dad, and no amount of insults you could hurl will ever change the way i feel. happy?