Trusty Pig

Days ago I wrote an entry about a travesty in the web world. The travesty I speak of is a company's website. This company is Trusty Pig. They are a Romanian ad outfit and they are responsible for web theft, stealing their beautiful new web design from a local Des Moines Bank, Smarty Pig.
I learned of this crime on Twitter. Because Smarty Pig is a great Des Moines company that the local web 2.0 community respects, within 1 hour many people on the web community were outraged. Their website was completely original, created by Happy Cog, and Trusty Pig had ripped it off and claimed the design as their own. Below I have included comparison screen shots compliments of Troy Rutter.

  

Within only two days TrustyPig.com figured out we had caught on and replaced their web design. 

My original post was taken down because I noticed the design change, however, when Trusty Pig's apology blog was posted I immediately re-wrote this post. Their blog has an apology letter for using Smarty Pig's design. But then it goes on to shift responsibility off of themselves. They start to blame others and Trusty Pig even has the nerve to attack and insult the blogging community who was responsible for this quick resolution, even stooping so low as to call them "uneducated".
If they would have taken responsibility for their actions, I would have erased my post all together, but they have not. Because of their highly defensive blog, I am led to wonder what designs they have stolen and will steal in the future. Please beware of this dishonest, "Trusty Pig".