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SYDNEY (Reuters) - A man who put his life up for auction on eBay found it wasn't worth quite as much as he thought when he settled for around A$100,000 less than his target price.
Ian Usher, 44, held the seven-day auction of all his belongings, including his three-bedroom home in the west Australian city of Perth and a trial for his job at a rug store, after the break-up of his five-year marriage.
Bids had reached as high as A$2.2 million, only for Usher to discover there had been a glitch on eBay's system which allowed the participation of non-registered bidders who had put in bogus offers.
In the end, the winning bidder agreed to pay A$399,300 ($380,286) for all of Usher's worldly goods, which also include his friends, a motorcycle and a jetski. According to the eBay website, the mystery buyer, whose user name is "mslmcc," is in Australia and has a 100 percent feedback score.
Usher, who gave regular updates on the auction on his Web site www.alife4sale.com, now plans to travel in search of a new life.
He's not the first person to put his life on the block.
American John Freyer started All My Life For Sale (www.allmylifeforsale.com) in 2001 and sold everything he owned on eBay, later visiting the people who bought his things.
Adam Burtle, a 20-year-old U.S. university student, offered his soul for sale on eBay in 2001, with bidding hitting $400 before eBay called it off, saying there had to be something tangible to sell. Burtle later admitted he was a bored geek.
(Reporting by James Thornhill; Editing by David Fogarty)
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Stranger than Fiction
Escaped thief asks police to open handcuffs
A man caught breaking into a German supermarket late at night escaped only to be arrested after he ran to a nearby police station to get the handcuffs removed.
A security guard had cuffed the man and held three others after spotting the break-in.
But by the time officers arrived, the man had managed to escape. Arriving at the police station, the 19-year-old told officers he had been locked up by a friend as a joke, and asked for their help.
The officers at first went along with the ruse and removed the cuffs. However, suspecting he was the missing man from the break-in, they pressed him for details.
The man then confessed his role and was promptly re-united with his three accomplices in the station's prison cell.
A man caught breaking into a German supermarket late at night escaped only to be arrested after he ran to a nearby police station to get the handcuffs removed.
A security guard had cuffed the man and held three others after spotting the break-in.
But by the time officers arrived, the man had managed to escape. Arriving at the police station, the 19-year-old told officers he had been locked up by a friend as a joke, and asked for their help.
The officers at first went along with the ruse and removed the cuffs. However, suspecting he was the missing man from the break-in, they pressed him for details.
The man then confessed his role and was promptly re-united with his three accomplices in the station's prison cell.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Stranger than Fiction...
Fredric J. Baur, of Cincinnati, died May 4 at Vitas Hospice in Cincinnati, his family said. He was 89.
Baur's children said they honored his request to bury him in one of the cans by placing part of his cremated remains in a Pringles container in his grave in suburban Springfield Township.
The rest of his remains were placed in an urn buried along with the can, with some placed in another urn and given to a grandson, said Baur's daughter, Linda Baur of Diamondhead, Miss.
Baur requested the burial arrangement because he was proud of his design of the Pringles container, a son, Lawrence Baur of Stevensville, Mich., said Monday.
Baur was an organic chemist and food storage technician who specialized in research and development and quality control for Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble Co.
Baur filed for a patent for the tubular Pringles container and for the method of packaging the curved, stacked chips in the container in 1966, and it was granted in 1970, P&G archivist Ed Rider said.
Baur's children said they honored his request to bury him in one of the cans by placing part of his cremated remains in a Pringles container in his grave in suburban Springfield Township.
The rest of his remains were placed in an urn buried along with the can, with some placed in another urn and given to a grandson, said Baur's daughter, Linda Baur of Diamondhead, Miss.
Baur requested the burial arrangement because he was proud of his design of the Pringles container, a son, Lawrence Baur of Stevensville, Mich., said Monday.
Baur was an organic chemist and food storage technician who specialized in research and development and quality control for Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble Co.
Baur filed for a patent for the tubular Pringles container and for the method of packaging the curved, stacked chips in the container in 1966, and it was granted in 1970, P&G archivist Ed Rider said.
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