We’ve been avoiding this story like the plague, but since it rose to the top of Digg’s main page yesterday, we’ve been getting a lot of e-mails about it.

(Also things we ignored from tipsters yesterday: in case you weren’t paying attention, that Star Trek picture was not from the new JJ Trek.)

Anyway, you know that Uwe Boll petition to get him to stop making movies? The one you guys should have signed already and can still sign here?

Stride gum has now decided to back the petition. If one million signatories can be mobilized by the time Boll’s newest, Postal, comes out on May 23rd, everyone who signed the petition will get a downloadable coupon for a free pack of gum.

We’re already on the petition, joining the ranks of the other 262,772 potential free gum winners who now must motivate 737, 227 other people to sign a petition in 14 days, lest we go gum-less.

If you haven’t, join the undersigned.