FOR SALE: One Slightly Used Soul
Living in these trying economic times, sometimes one who's strapped for cash has to resort to more...unorthodox methods to make a quick buck. In fact, one only need to browse the website BizarreBids to find such amusing items for sale as a phallic cheese puff and a haunted paper clip.
But a New Zealand man has decided to take a page from the ever-popular "Simpsons Did It" files and sell his soul to the highest bidder.
Walter Scott, 24, put his soul up for sale on New Zealand Internet auction site TradeMe, and so far has received more than 100 expressions of interest.
Bids in the auction, which was to close Thursday, had reached $189 late Wednesday.
With the winner receiving a framed deed of "soul ownership," Scott sees no need to hold onto the one thing keeping him from an eternity in purgatory with bills to be paid. Gas isn't getting any cheaper, folks!
"I can't see it, touch it or feel it, but I can sell it, so I'm going to palm it off to the highest bidder," he said.
It was in "pretty good nick" except for a rough patch six years ago when he reached the legal drinking age, he said
Now, for those of you looking to buy your very own soulless minion to cater to your every evil whim, you're going to be disappointed. He's lawyered up.
Advice from a lawyer was that the winning bidder would not be entitled to anything but Scott's soul and would not be able to own or control him in any way, he said.
Now, the financial outlook in the South Pacific must be pretty bleak, as just last month an Australian man decided to go on eBay and sell his life.
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.
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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.
I mean, what's next? Trying to sell your infant child as a joke? Oh, wait.
thefreak once sold his body and all he got was a mugshot and herpes. One complaint to the Better Business Bureau later, and all is well.
