According to this, they suggest it was a prank. The owner is a UK
Shock Jock on the radio:
http://www.snopes.com/love/revenge/porsche.asp
it s a good story nonetheless!!
Cheers,
Alan
'53 BN1 '64 BJ8
On 6/24/05, scott willis <ahpowered@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Real or urban legend? You decide. Enjoy.
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> Angry Wife Gets Revenge on Ebay
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> Tim Shaw has gotten in trouble again and this time it counts.
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> In February, as previously reported in Out There, the obnoxious British
> shock jock was suspended "indefinitely" from his radio DJ job for the on-air
> trashing of his boss' house.
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> Last Thursday night, he was doing his usual 10 p.m.-to-1 a.m. shift at
> Birmingham-based Kerrang! 105.2 FM here's his bio page when he told
> pin-up girl Jodie Marsh (search) on air that he'd be willing to leave his
> wife and two kids for her.
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> Unfortunately, his long-suffering wife was listening and quickly put up
> his Lotus Esprit Turbo sports car for sale on eBay.
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> "I need to get rid of this car immediately ideally in the next 2-3 hours
> before my cheating [jerk] husband gets home to find it gone and all his
> belongings in the street," Hayley Shaw wrote on the eBay description page,
> which as of Wednesday afternoon was still up.
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> "I am the registered owner and I have the log book. Please only buy if you
> can pick up tonight," she added.
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> The auction lasted exactly five minutes and three seconds. The car,
> estimated to be worth $45,000, sold for 50 pence (90 cents) and was soon
> driven away by a buyer who wishes to remain anonymous.
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> "I am sick of him disrespecting this family for the sake of his act," Hayley
> Shaw told a Birmingham newspaper. "The car is his pride and joy, but the
> idiot put my name on the log book [registration], so I just sold it. I
> didn't care about the money. I just wanted to get him back."
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> Last July, according to The Independent of London, Shaw upset his
> then-pregnant wife by saying on-air that he fantasized about sex with her
> sister. When she tearfully called to complain, he put her on air as well.
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> A month later, he nearly choked to death when a sausage he was simulating a
> sex act on broke in half.
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> A Kerrang! 105.2 spokesman said Tuesday that Shaw had taken a few days off
> to try to patch things up with his wife, who told newspapers "there is no
> hope for a reconciliation."
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> Then the revenge...
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>http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=2192&item=4556985749&rd=1
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