Gift to Royal Baby is Kim Dotcom – NZ Prime Minister John Key
"We're giving them Kim Dotcom" Prime Minister John Key joked with the press as they flocked him while descending the lectern after the post-Cabinet conference today.
Obviously kidding, reporters press the prime minister for more information about New Zealand's gift to the Royal baby reportedly due on Saturday.
The press then asks Mr Key if NZ's gift will be a Buzzy Bee pull-along toy. Mr Key stopped walking, looked at the press dumbfounded and tells them that it is not the gift the government intends to gift the Royal baby.
Kim Dotcom as widely known faces U.S charges of criminal copyright infringement committed through his file-sharing Megaupload site. It was reported that Megaupload has cost the entertainment industry $500 million because of pirated content uploaded to the site. The Megaupload site has 150 million members. Kim Dotcom is still battling the court against these charges and fighting the attempt for extradition into the United States.
Mr Dotcom had immediately responded to Mr Key's joke through his tweeter account. His tweet went, "First the Prime Minister sold me to Hollywood. Now he's gifting me to the royal family. I'll pick palace over prison."
Meanwhile Mr Key shared that the government has already an idea what to give the Royal baby. He said that the Cabinet Office already pitch the gift idea to him as well as to the royal household.
According to Mr Key he will reject the gift if he thinks that the gift fell short as an impressive gift to the Royal baby.
He was then asked if it was as flashy as a rattle with pearl embellishment. He commented, "Well, it's not that... and it's a step up from a stuffed Kiwi."
Mr Key put a strong foot forward not to give any clue as to what the gift was. He said that it will be inappropriate to announce any gift with the bay still not out.
Gifts to all born Royal babies in the past were always talked of the town.
New Zealand Herald recalled that Prince William received a fine lace shawl in his christening in 1982 which was created by craft artist Margaret stove.
Back in New Zealand when he was already a toddler, New Zealand then gave Prince William a Buzzy Bee pull-along toy.
Sudocrem, an antiseptic company, paid jewellery designer Theo Fennel to create an 18-carat white gold charm bracelet embellished with jewels and designed with nappy rash-cream holder. The gift was worth NZ$19, 000.
Just before being ousted, Julia Gillard made the headline as she poses knitting a baby Kangaroo for a cover of a women's magazine. The people still waits for news if the ousted prime minister will still be giving the toy Kangaroo to the Royal baby.
Since the baby was due on Saturday and speculations that the baby will come earlier than expected, media and photographers were already in queue outside the Lindo Wind of St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, London.
Reports said that the Queen has already readied a cratered helicopter at Prince William's RAF base in Anglesey for him to conveniently fly to the hospital as soon as his son was born.