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Buddhism inspires woman to sell all her belongings

Updated Mon. Apr. 16 2007 10:15 AM ET

A woman who is selling virtually all of her possessions online is citing Buddhism as one of the philosophical reasons behind the drastic overhaul to her personal life.

"First of all, was the idea of releasing attachment, related to the Buddhist idea of becoming so attached to possessions that they become the driving force in your life," Perry told CTV's Canada AM. "Another reason was that I just don't want to move and have to carry all this stuff with me again."

Lisa Perry, of St. Paul, Minn., decided to sell more than 300 of her personal items on the web auction site eBay. The items Perry has for sale include women's brand clothing, shoes and various furniture items.

However, the auction also includes refrigerator magnets, mugs from around the world and a milk crate of seashells. Perry is even selling items in boxes she has not opened for years.

"I've got a number of boxes that have got things that I really I'm not sure what's in there," Perry told CTV's Canada AM. "They're things from childhood that seemed too precious to get rid of. But now it's like, you know, do I really, really need to have this?"

Previously, the sale had been listed under the title "Everything Perry Owns!'" on eBay, but this auction ended Sunday and now the items have been divided into smaller lots on the website.

While Perry is selling or giving away most of her possessions, she has decided to keep her pets, photo albums and some of her clothes. She will be donating some of the money she makes to charity and has asked those who buy her possessions to pick them up in person.

Perry's sale has generated an overwhelming response. The media attention her sale has generated has managed to reconnect her with old friends and she has received messages of support from many people who do not know her.

However, the sale hasn't been conducted without its problems. Perry has had to adjust her sale many times to comply with eBay's policies. And on the blog she set up to chronicle the sale, she has indicated another popular website Craigslist will also be used to sell her possessions.

Additionally, her family has expressed surprise over the sale and is concerned about the loss of family heirlooms.

This feeling of regret is one Perry shares over some of the possessions she is selling.

"I have a wind-up Edison record player that I remember listening to as a kid that has World War I records and that's really hard to let go," Perry said. "It needs to be someplace where it can be enjoyed by other people and cared for really better than I could do it."

After the sale, Perry, a legal communications consultant, intends to bring a fresh approach to her life.

She hopes to move to California and pursue writing. But she also plans to change her approach to hoarding possessions.

"I am going to first of all not accumulate so much stuff," Perry said. "There'll be some things that I'll replace, but a lot of it is really to simplify my life."

 


This is hilarious. Apparently this person misunderstood the four noble truths and enlightenment as tought by Siddhartha.

This story was recently clogging the search engines, as I had to wade through DOZENS of pages of identical reports to find any real ebay news.

 



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Woman Finds Her Daughter's Missing Coat On eBay

May 3, 2007 4:53 p.m. EST

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AHN Staff Writer Hillsboro, OR (AHN)
- An Oregon mother looking for a jacket on the online auction site, eBay, found one that looked exactly like the one her daughter lost at school. Why? It was the same jacket.

In January, the mother of a third grade student in Hillsboro, Oregon visited her daughter's school more than once to try and find a missing Columbia Sportswear jacket.

After talking with school administrators and teachers and searching the "lost and found" the mother figured the jacket was lost and went online to try and find a new one for her daughter.

Yet, when she found a seemingly identical jacket on eBay, she was surprised to find the seller listed their address as Hillsboro. As it turns out, the seller's ID matched the name of a teacher at her daughter's school.

 According to The Oregonian, the mother took the issue up with the school and police who arrested 41-year-old first grade teacher Elizabeth Logan.

Logan faces charges of theft and criminal misuse of a computer and is currently pending arraignment.


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Laptop containing Southend children's social services case notes bought on eBay


Machine 'went missing' from disposal contractor

By Tash Shifrin



Southend-on-Sea borough council is reviewing its procedures after a laptop computer containing social services case notes on local children turned up on the eBay auction website.

The council disposes of its used computers through not-for-profit organisation Revitalise, which employs disabled people who work with IT technicians to recondition used computer equipment for cheap resale to schools and voluntary groups.

A council spokesperson said the laptop had gone missing from Revitalise, but the council had not been aware of the loss until the individual who bought the machine on eBay found the social services information and reported the matter to the council. The data found on the machine is understood to include fostering, adoption and child protection information dating from between 1999 and 2003,

The laptop is now in the possession of Essex and Surrey Police.

The spokesperson confirmed that Revitalise was supposed to wipe hard disk drives before reselling the machines. He added that the council did not know how many other computers had gone missing from the organisation.

The council is contacting the families of the children whose details were found on the recovered laptop and has also set up a helpline.

Paul Greenhalgh, corporate director of children and learning at the council, said: "We are taking this matter very seriously. We are working with the police and have conducted a full investigation and review of our IT disposal procedure. As a further safeguard we have commissioned the Society of IT Management (Socitm) to undertake a further audit of our procedures.

The council said this was the first incident to have come to light in the five years since Revitalise began handling its used computers and it was in dialogue with the organisation to find out how the problem occurred.

The loss of the Southend machine follows a string of other recent data security breaches involving laptops. Earlier this week Marks & Spencer warned 26,000 staff that their personal data was at risk following theft of a laptop computer containing pension information from a printing firm contracted to produce pensions correspondence.

Last week a laptop holding payroll data on 10,000 NHS staff was stolen from locked and alarmed premises at the Royal Cornwall Hospitals trust. And in March, police recovered another NHS laptop, containing the names, addresses and dates of birth of 11,500 children, which had been stolen from Nottinghamshire Teaching primary care trust.




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A man from Newport is selling his imaginary friend on eBay - and has attracted bids of more than 1 550 pounds (about R21 300).

The sales pitch reads: "My imaginary friend Jon Malipieman is getting too old for me now. I am now 27 and I feel I am growing out of him.

"He is very friendly. Along with him, I will send you what he likes and dislikes, his favourite things to do and his personal self portrait."

The seller, who calls himself "thewildandcrazyoli" has received more than 20 questions from would-be buyers.

They include:

Q: I'm tempted to bid but, if I won the auction, how would I know if he showed up? I just don't want to get ripped off here. I hope you understand.

A: Yes, I understand. But I will not send you nothing, I will send you Jon conveniently folded in an envelope, with him will be written down his likes, his dislikes, his favourite things to do and his own personal self portrait.

Q: Last time I bought someone's imaginary friend, the friendship between us never materialised ... in fact, he rarely came around and hardly spoke to me at all !!! Can you assure me Jon will be different?

A: Jon says: Yes I will be different. I love making new friends and would talk to you so much you would get sick of me! I would tell you all my hobbies, interests, likes, dislikes etc...

Q: If we don't get along can I return him?

A: I'm sorry there are no refunds, but i can send you a new friend if he does not satisfy you.

Q: I'm quite musical but have no friends...does he play air guitar?

A: Yes, he's a professional air guitar player, and he would love to be your friend.

Q: Is he single?

A: Yes, he is single at the moment. He used to be a bit of a player (well, a lot of one) but he has out grown that phase and is looking to settle down in a nice relationship. - Ananova.com



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Tool have added several new dates to their touring schedule. The band will make stops in Cape Girardeau, Missouri (June 16); Evansville, Indiana (June 17); Sioux City, Iowa (June 25); Cincinnati (June 29); Youngstown, Ohio (July 1); Grand Rapids, Michigan (July 5); Huntington, West Virginia (July 7); and Mansfield, Massachusetts (July 12). ... Chevelle have been forced to postpone their current tour until further notice following the theft of the band's equipment trailer. Containing all the band's gear, the trailer was stolen Wednesday from the Clarion Dallas Park Central Hotel in Dallas. Most of the stolen goods were labeled "Chevelle," and the band has asked that anyone who notices the gear being sold on eBay report the matter to police. ...



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I talk to people all the time and Guess What they say about ebay?



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Human Skulls Found In Apartment After Police Investigate Tip From Drag Queen

Man Claims Skulls Were Inventory For Online Business

By Adam Shrum

Copyright 2007 ApartmentWIZ

Selling human skulls turns big profits. Well, at least one man in Chicago, IL believes so. Brian Sloan, 26, was boiling five skulls on his stove in order to prepare them for his eBay customers.

A local artist and part-time drag queen, named Jojo Baby, walked in on Brian and was shocked when he thought he saw flesh along the gum line of one of the skulls boiling on the stove. Baby, who is in the final stages of officially changing his name to Jojo Baby, called the police.
Police Find Human Skulls In Apartment
A store called the Bone Room in California has been selling human skulls for about 15 years. Sloan refutes claims of being unusual by saying, There are thousands of anthropologists, medical professionals and interested people who want to study anatomy through human bones"

FBI and Food and Drug Administration officials say they could find no laws that Brian Sloan has broken. The future of the five skulls remains uncertain as they remain in possession of the Cook County medical examiners office.

Mr. Sloan has declined to say where the skulls came from, but police have said the skulls came from China. I wonder if UPS or FedEx charges extra for shipping body parts.
The entire video newscast of this story can be seen by clicking Human Skulls Found in Apartment.


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(the picture in the story alone makes it worth clicking.)

Buy Michael Jacksons used sex toys?

Eeew. Richard Altomare, ex-partner of Wacko Jacko, is in possession of a herd of Jackson personal memorabilia, and has decided to put it up for auction. He has claimed that, if Jackson pisses him off, hell sell the whole kaboodle including his used sex toys, paintings he did of little boys naked and copies of his sealed records from the molestation case that was settled out of court.

All of which, apart from raising bile into your mouth, brings up a rather gross but interesting question. How do famous people dispose of their recreational materials? Dinguses, Buzzyboingers, Doinkydiddlers, old dog-eared copies of Bigguns magazines - you know theyve got em. But how do you get those DNA drenched nasties off their property without having some trash-picker selling it on Ebay the next day?

Is there a bonded pick-up service? Throw it out the car window at a hair-pin turn? Is there some poor, confused rube on Mullholland Drive picking battery-operated delights out of his hedgerow all summer?

I have always maintained that life is vastly more interesting if you just peek under the surface now and then. I offer you this as an example to ponder.

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Morbid Merchandise: JFK hearse to be auctioned


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The JFK assassination was one of the most memorable moments in American history, and as of yesterday, a very large part of that history will be up for grabs on eBay. The 1964 Cadillac Miller & Meteor Hearse that carried President Kennedy's body was seen by of millions of people when JFK was driven to Love field, and now your neighbors can see it in your front yard. Included in the eBay auction is what is said to be the last known remaining original death certificate, which had errors that were later corrected and resulted in another certificate being issued. The hearse failed to sell in a May 5th auction, but bidding did go as high as $900,000.

We could see why an item like this would be a big draw at a museum or car show, but why an individual would want a hearse is beyond us. What's the selling point? "Hey, check out my hearse. Do you want to lay in the same spot as JFK's dead body?" Maybe we'd think differently if we had $1,000,000 to throw at a piece of Americana, but we don't.



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Proof you can buy anything on eBay


Dumping your boyfriend can be a costly business in the cosmetic surgery world

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eBay - the online marketplace where you can get rid of all your unwanted tat - and, of course, sell your breast implants. One young lady called Francesca is doing just that, flogging her current chest buffers in order to pay for a bigger pair after her breaking up with her boyfriend who had agreed to pay for them. Single and flatter chested than she'd like to be, the Essex girl is using every trick in the book to get the cash together for her new op, adding this little teaser, "If you are interested in football then there's a little history with these implants - they have been enjoyed by a couple of famous footballers who may well be bidding too!" Paddy Power have been tickled sufficiently enough by the story to put up a market on how much they will go for when the auction closes at 1.59pm on September 17. Currently attracting a solitary bid at £50, under £1000 is 2/1 favourite, followed by £2501-3000 and over £4000 at 4/1. The question on chicken dinner's lips is - who are the likely lads who have had their mitts on Francesca's prized assets - did Leroy Lita have a crack, or did Kieron Dyer cop a feel?

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Soldier 'sold bearskin hats on eBay'

A soldier is in trouble for allegedly selling the Queen's guards' famous bearskin hats on eBay.

The staff sergeant is also accused of trying to sell guardsmen's red tunics and weapon parts, reports The Sun.

An investigation was launched after bearskin hats, worth £650 each, started showing up on the auction website.

The 38-year-old who works in the armoury at Victoria Barracks in Windsor Castle, was held and items were found in his house.

He faces losing his £35,000 salary and his pension if charged and convicted.

The Sun quoted a Royal Military Police insider as saying: "The allegations are extremely serious.

"A large number of items of kits including bearskins, boots and scarlet tunics had been stolen from men's lockers which had been broken into, usually after dark.

"It's a very long and complex investigation. Officers are going through eBay archives tracing what was up for auction. His computer is also being looked at."

The MoD confirmed the investigation into "allegations of theft and fraud".



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Prostate of Dame Edna's ex-hubby on eBay


17th September 2007, 11:50 WST

A glass urn purporting to contain the "used" prostate of Dame Edna Everage's late husband has been put up for sale on eBay, with a starting price of $100.

Comedian Barry Humphries' alter ego Dame Edna surprised guests at a Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (PCFA) fundraising dinner last week when she donated Norm Stoddard Everage's prostate as an auction prize.

It sold for $7,000, but the winning bidder listed the item on internet auction site eBay, with all proceeds from the sale going back to the PCFA.

The winning bidder will also receive a signed letter from Dame Edna and a DVD of her video message.

"When I learnt my husband had a prostate I tried to find out where it was - where is this Cinderella organ - but no-one would tell me," Dame Edna says in the video.

"My husband soon after our marriage developed a prostate murmur which turned into a rumbling so loud it woke the neighbours. They asked me if I could keep the noise down - I said there is a knob but I'm not touching that.

"And here it is now here in this jar. I've treasured it, talked to it and it is in better condition that ever before."

In its eBay listing the prostate is described as being in "used" condition.

With a starting price of $100 plus $50 postage, the item has so far attracted one bid.

It has been listed for 10 days, ending just before midnight on September 26.

"It's a unique item that for years has been a treasured personal possession for one of the world's most glamorous woman - Australian megastar entertainer and housewife, Dame Edna Everage," the listing reads.

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Pol Pot's Mercedes for Sale on EBay

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He was one of the most brutal dictators of the 20th century Now Pol Pot's car is up for grabs on eBay. A Brit is offering the 1973 Mercedes Limousine that is said to have once belonged to Cambodian dictator for 35,000 pounds.

"For Sale - one classic 1973 Mercedes Benz Stretch Limousine (short-wheel base stretch) -- previously used by one infamous owner -- Pol Pot who led the Khmer Rouge during its genocidal regime in Cambodia from 1975-1979." This is the tantalizing, if morally dubious, offer to car shoppers on eBay. The going price is 35,000 pounds (about 50,000 or $72,000).

It's not likely to go much higher than that. Whether the black luxury car actually belonged to the blood-thirsty dictator, who died in 1998, has yet to be confirmed. Paul Freer, the British banker who has put the car up for sale, was not to be reached for comment.

According to the eBay ad, the car was discovered while being used to transport water melon to the central market of Phnom Penh by the former editor of the Phnom Penh Post. Freer bought it in 2001, restored it and used it "for Sunday drives around Phnom Penh and the outskirts." He claims that Hollywood star Matt Dillon used it while shooting "City of Ghosts" in Cambodia in 2001. The car is currently on display at the French colonial Renakse Hotel, opposite the King's Palace.

Historians are debating the authenticity of the story. Youk Chhang, director of the Documentation Centre of Cambodia, which archives and researches the crimes of the Pol Pot regime -- which killed some two million people during its regime of terror -- explains that the infamous dictator owned several black Mercedes limousines. "It's impossible to determine which of the cars belonged to him," he says.

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Music lover downloaded CDs to sell on eBay site


COUNTERFEITER Clive Kinsey sold copied music discs on eBay but claims he wasnt in it for the money.

Cardiff Crown Court heard he was actually doing it because he was passionate about the songs.

Barrister David Elias told a judge: Hes just a lover of music he actually enjoyed what he was doing.

Perhaps ego took over and he thought he was part of the music industry.

As a driver for the out-of-hours doctors service, he earns up to £1,000 a month and his wife has a good salary.

He didnt need to do it for money.

Trading standards investigators found more than 10,787 different pieces downloaded onto a laptop computer they found at the Valleys home Kinsey, 47, shares with his wife.

But although he had half a dozen different eBay accounts offering CDs for around £4 a time, not all of those 10,000 were there for copying, Kinsey claimed.

Mr Elias said: Thousands of them were just downloaded for his own enjoyment.

Police and officers from an anti-piracy agency raided the family home in John Street, Hirwaun, in December 2005 after making sample purchases over the internet and finding what Kinsey sent out were fakes.

Inside the house, along with the computer, they found a printer, blank discs, packaging material and 292 counterfeit CDs ready for posting out.

Checks with eBay revealed the several accounts he had set up using different names and in one case his mothers address in Aberdare which also had to be searched.

In court, Kinsey admitted seven charges of selling or possessing the CDs.

He was given a four-month jail sentence suspended for 12 months, with 120 hours unpaid community work.

He was also ordered to hand over the £13,600 he was said to have made from his illegal trade over an 18-month period.

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Friday, November 16, 2007Boxes of energy-saving lightbulbs that California utilities are supposed to distribute within the state to save power are instead turning up on eBay, where anyone in the country can buy them, a watchdog group reported Thursday.

As a result, California may not be saving as much power as it planned.

The Utility Reform Network bought from eBay several boxes of compact fluorescent lightbulbs that bore stickers saying they were subsidized by the utilities, in some cases Pacific Gas and Electric Co., in others, Southern California Edison.

A few errant bulbs may not seem like a big deal.

But each bulb was subsidized with money gleaned from the electricity bills Californians pay every month. In return, state energy regulators expected those bulbs to be installed in California, where they would help the state use less electricity.

But buyers on eBay can be anywhere. TURN also received word that some of the PG&E bulbs were being sold in a Reno hardware store.

"If Californians are going to be paying for it, the benefits should go to California consumers," said Bob Finkelstein, the group's executive director. "It's going to be the equivalent of if the state built a power plant in California, but they only plugged three-fourths of it in."

Finkelstein said his group didn't know the extent of the problem. Nor did the group know how the bulbs ended up on the resale market.

Keely Wachs, a spokesman for San Francisco's PG&E, said the company already takes into account the possibility that not all of the bulbs will be used. In the company's planning, PG&E assumes that it will only get the energy savings from about 80 percent of the bulbs distributed.

PG&E also has its own program to check out online lightbulb sales and see if they are using bulbs that came from the utility. The company estimates that 5,000 or fewer bulbs for sale online originally came from PG&E. The company will distribute or subsidize between 25 million and 30 million compact fluorescent lightbulbs this year, Wachs said.

"From PG&E's perspective, it's disappointing to see a group that claims to represent customer interest undermining programs that have great benefits for our customers," he said.

California is desperate to save electricity, both to fight global warming and to cut the number of new power plants built in the state. California utilities can receive financial rewards - possibly worth hundreds of millions of dollars paid by their customers - if they meet energy savings goals set by state regulators. The utilities are relying heavily on compact fluorescent bulbs to meet those goals.

If some of the bulbs disappear into the online market, the state and the utilities may not save all the power expected.

"There's a challenge there in figuring out how much we save versus what we were promised," Finkelstein said.

 

E-mail David R. Baker at dbaker@sfchronicle.com.

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Killers make money from collectors paying for art, letters


 
GAINESVILLE, Fla. - The Cross-Country Killer has received $330 since January 2005. The Killer Baby Sitter received $207. The leader of a vampire cult received $120.


Despite a law banning felons from profiting from their crimes, some of Florida's most notorious inmates are receiving deposits in their prison accounts from collectors of their art, letters and personal items.

Collectors sell the items, called "murderabilia," for prices that can reach thousands of dollars. Lawmakers have banned the sales in five states and are now pushing for a federal law.

Florida bans felons from using their notoriety for profit, but violations are hard to prove and rarely enforced. While the state successfully prevented Gainesville student killer Danny Rolling for profiting from a book on his crimes, it failed to stem the sale of his art and letters through online auction sites.

Collectors benefit from a Florida system in which inmates can get money mailed from virtually anyone. Other states limit the number of people who can send money, do background checks on them and place caps on the amount of money in prison accounts.

Prison records show five Florida inmates whose items are being sold online received at least $767 from collectors since January 2005. The figure represents just money from well-known collectors and not family members, who officials say can serve as conduits for selling items.

Tod Bohannon said the figure validates his argument that inmates are not making big profits on selling items. The Georgia-based collector runs a Web site, Murderauction.com, where murderabilia items are offered in eBay-style auctions.

Bohannon said inmates often have to pay restitution to victims, spending the rest on toiletries, snacks and other small items bought through prisons.

"The real people that are profiting from murderabilia is the Department of Corrections," he said.

Andy Kahan, a victims' advocate in Houston, has been leading the fight against murderabilia sites. He said inmates should be prevented from receiving any money for items, no matter what the amount.

"Whether it's one cent or a couple hundred dollars, it's blood money," he said.

He said Bohannon's site is one of five major Web sites where murderabilia is sold. The sites list items from some of the nation's best-known criminals, including Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy and Charles Manson.

A self-portrait of Rolling, who was executed last year for killing five college students in Gainesville, was being offered recently for $350.

But most items come from lesser-known criminals. Collectors say if a murderer committed crimes notorious enough to earn them a nickname in the media, there's usually a market for their letters or art.

Glen Rogers was dubbed the Cross-Country Killer for being convicted of murders in two states and suspected of killings in two others. He's on Florida's Death Row for stabbing a 34-year-old mother of two and leaving her to die in a motel bathroom after meeting her at a Tampa bar in November 1995.

Records show at least three collectors deposited a total of $330 in his account from January 2005 to October 2007. At the same time, items from him were being sold online such as a jail canteen order for $15 and a signed card for $45.

Florida prisons ban inmates from conducting business behind bars. But the Florida Department of Corrections has no active investigations against inmates for selling murderabilia, spokeswoman Gretl Plessinger said.

She said the department investigates complaints, but wasn't aware of inmates getting money for items.

"We don't know what we don't know," she said.

The Florida Attorney General's Office is not prosecuting any cases under a law banning felons from profiting from their crimes, said spokeswoman Sandi Copes. She said the corrections department has not provided any information showing such incidents are occurring.

"Our office was assured that this was not in fact happening," she said.

But collectors freely admit that they give money to inmates who provide art.

William Smyers, a collector who recently moved to New York from Florida, said inmates typically don't ask for outright payment and often get nothing for items.

"Most inmates are lucky to see one person send them anything," he said.

Smyers said he has written to more than 40 inmates, including Rolling before he was executed. He became interested in writing serial killers to learn more about what leads them to commit heinous crimes.

"It's the fascination of what makes them tick," he said.

He said he valued items from Rolling and was hesitant to sell them, but recent financial problems led him to offer a letter and thumbprint online. He said he's deposited small amounts of money in Rolling's account and those of other inmates.

"There wasn't a financial agreement that I send them anything," he said.

Deposits are easier to make in Florida than other states, he said. In Florida, inmates receive deposit slips that they can send to anyone. Collectors fill out limited personal information on the slips and send them with a money order to the corrections department, which puts the money in inmate accounts.

The deposit slips themselves are even collectibles: a slip from Rolling was being sold online last week. Bohannon said he sometimes puts his Web site address on the back of slips and distributes them at horror shows.

Other states have more restrictive systems for depositing money in inmate accounts. In Alabama, inmates are limited to eight people who can make deposits. Each person must give a name, date of birth and Social Security number to an inmate, who then provides the information to prison officials for a background check.

Five states - California, Michigan, New Jersey, Texas and Utah - have taken additional steps to stop murderabilia. The states ban the sale of the items, but Kahan said enforcement has been limited and the constitutionality of the laws has not been tested.

He said a federal law could provide the best way to regulate an Internet trade that crosses state boundaries. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, introduced legislation in May to bar federal and state prisoners from placing almost any item in the mail for the purpose of selling it.

Criminals would face fines and a minimum of three years in prison to be served consecutively with any other sentence.

But the law likely wouldn't pass constitutional muster, said Jim Tucker, policy counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union's Washington office.

After a publisher offered to pay "Son of Sam" killer David Berkowitz to tell his story in 1977, New York became the first of about 40 states to prohibit criminals from profiting from crimes. But the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1991 that the laws violated the First Amendment.

The court has not ruled on the constitutionality of subsequent laws focused on murderabilia.

Tucker said the efforts might be well intentioned, but speech cannot be restricted based on content.

"That's what the First Amendment is all about - we've got to protect the good with the bad," he said.



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"Murderabilia": Profit Behind Bars

"Murderabilia" Items Are Offered On Internet Auction Sites

MIAMI (CBS4) Despite a law banning felons from profiting from their crimes, some of Florida's most notorious inmates are receiving deposits in their prison accounts from collectors of their art, letters and personal items in a report by CBS4 news partners The Miami Herald.

Collectors sell the items, called ''murderabilia,'' for prices that can reach thousands of dollars. Lawmakers have banned the sales in five states and are pushing for a federal law.

Florida bans felons from using their notoriety for profit. While the state successfully prevented Gainesville student killer Danny Rolling from profiting from a book about his crimes, it failed to stem the sale of his art and letters through online auction sites.

Collectors benefit from a Florida system in which inmates can get money mailed from virtually anyone. Other states limit the number of people who can send money, do background checks on them and place caps on the amount of money in prison accounts.

Prison records show five Florida inmates whose items were being sold online received at least $767 from collectors since January 2005. The figure represents just money from well-known collectors and not family members, who officials say can serve as conduits for selling items.

Tod Bohannon said the figure validates his argument that inmates are not making big profits on selling items. The Georgia-based collector runs a website, Murder auction.com, where murderabilia items are offered in eBay-style auctions.

Bohannon's site is one of five major websites where murderabilia is sold. The sites list items from some of the nation's most notorious criminals, including Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy and Charles Manson.

A self-portrait of Rolling, who was executed last year for killing five college students in Gainesville, was being offered recently for $350.

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Tue Dec 4, 2007 3:49pm EST


By Dan Whitcomb

LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) - Porn star Mary Carey, who shot to fame by running for California governor against Arnold Schwarzenegger, unveiled plans on Tuesday to auction off her autographed, recently removed breast implants for charity.

Carey said the size 36-D implants were taken out two weeks ago and replaced with larger 36-DDDs and while under anesthesia she realized they could be used to raise money for breast cancer research.

"The doctors asked me what I wanted to do with them and I said, 'You know what, I'm going to keep them and try to sell them. Because my grandmother had breast cancer," Carey told Reuters in an interview.

The 27-year-old star of such adult films as "Boobsville Sorority Girls" and "Big Breasted Beauties" will be seen in the upcoming VH1 reality show "Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew" and said that during taping she kicked addictions to the anti-anxiety drug Xanax and alcohol.

"Now that I'm sober I wanted a new physical state to go along with my new mental state," Carey said. "I thought the auction would be a great way to spread some holiday cheer and make sure someone out there would have a Mary Mary Christmas."

The autographed implants have been placed on eBay and Carey, whose real name is Mary Cook, said she planned to donate some 90 percent of the proceeds to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.

She intends to use the rest of the money on medical bills for her mother, who suffered major injuries after jumping off a four-story building in 2006.

"I'm actually overall very anti-plastic surgery," Carey said. "I watched my mom go through 11 surgeries (for her injuries) and it's like, for me to voluntarily put myself through that, the only right thing to do is make money and donate it to charity."

Carey gained international fame in 2003 with her quixotic gubernatorial campaign against eventual winner Schwarzenegger. She abandoned a second run for governor against Schwarzenegger to be with her ailing mother and said it was then that she turned to Xanax, taking three times the prescribed dose

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Attorney Calls Listing 'Disgusting, Despicable, Ultimate In Greed'

POSTED: 8:20 am EST December 5,
2007 (video at link)

A
memento from the funeral of Washington Redskins safety and former
University of Miami Hurricanes star Sean Taylor is for sale on the
Internet auction Web site eBay.Type in a search of Taylor's name
on eBay and more than 1,600 items come up, everything from his rookie
trading card and signed helmets and jerseys to memorial ribbons and the
white towels with the No. 21 that were distributed at Sunday's
Washington Redskins game.But buried in the strand of Taylor
memorabilia is the program from Monday's funeral at Florida
International University's Pharmed Arena. It's unclear who the seller
is -- his listing name is "sharkonwheels" from Hollywood, and he writes
that it is going to be a really rare item.

The listing features three pictures of the handout and boasts that his
is a real one and not a copy. At the end of his full-page sales pitch,
the seller writes, "Sean, rest in peace. You will be sorely missed in
this world."

As of Local 10's first report, 11 people had bid on the item. The price was $102.50.Richard Sharpstein, Taylor's attorney and family friend, was shocked when Local 10 showed him the eBay listing.

"It's a horrible, horrible lack of respect for a family that's just buried their incredible son," he said.

Sharpstein
said the family had no idea of the listing but would be outraged to
learn that someone is trying to profit from Taylor's death."

This
case is an example of an epidemic in America of greed and violence, and
to sell the programs from someone's funeral is just disgusting,
despicable and the ultimate in greed," he said.

Sharpstein said
the seller should donate the proceeds to the scholarship fund for
Taylor's daughter, but believed eBay should remove the listing.A representative for eBay told Local 10 the company was looking into it.

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Oh look, winner at the sheep fair. Sheep farming? There is a joke in there somwhere.



Plea over ebay silver cup

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By Dick Bellringer

A STERLING silver cup dating from 1920s Andover has been given to the town's museum and curators are appealing for anyone who knows more about it to contact them.

The hallmarked five inch-high cup was spotted for sale on ebay by an eagle-eyed member of Andover History and Archaeology Society who bought it and donated it to the care of the museum.

The cup is the McDougall Cup presented to H B Crane in 1927 who was a winner at the sheep fair.

As well as these details the cup bears the traditional Andover emblem of the lion and the oak tree.

Museum curator Jenny Stevens, said: "The cup is one item which will be included in a small exhibition of recently acquired items and we would very much like to learn more about it.

"If anyone has any knowledge of the cup or of a Crane family involved in sheep farming then we would like to hear more."

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