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Cigarette Butt on Auction for $5,400
Reuters ^
| Apr 13, 2005
Posted on 04/13/2005 8:10:21 AM PDT by kingattax
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A cigarette smoked in the dying seconds before New Zealand smoke-free laws came into effect last year is set to fetch more than NZ$7,500 ($5,400) in an Internet auction.
The butt, witnessed as smoked at 11:59 p.m. on Dec. 9 by the owners of an Auckland bar, has exceeded its NZ$1 reserve price by NZ$7,574 on New Zealand-based Internet web auction site TradeMe (www.trademe.co.nz).
It costs about NZ$10 to buy a packet of cigarettes in New Zealand.
The successful bidder when the auction closes Thursday will also get a certificate of authenticity and a mounted display case. The partially smoked cigarette was described on the Web site as a "priceless Kiwiana collector's item." New Zealand extended its smoke-free laws on Dec. 10, 2004, to ban smoking in most indoor venues, sparking complaints from smokers and bar and cafe owners.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cigarettes; newzealand
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posted on
04/13/2005 8:10:21 AM PDT
by
kingattax
To: SheLion
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posted on
04/13/2005 8:10:54 AM PDT
by
kingattax
To: kingattax
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Heck, they can have the one I just put our for free. |
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posted on
04/13/2005 8:14:42 AM PDT
by
Fintan
(Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.)
To: kingattax
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posted on
04/13/2005 8:18:12 AM PDT
by
NaughtiusMaximus
(What this country needs is dirtier hands and cleaner minds.)
To: kingattax
--think what it would fetch if it looked like the face of Jesus--
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posted on
04/13/2005 8:18:48 AM PDT
by
rellimpank
(urban dwellers don' t understand the cultural deprivation of not being raised on a farm)
To: rellimpank
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posted on
04/13/2005 8:19:44 AM PDT
by
kingattax
To: SheLion
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posted on
04/13/2005 8:20:26 AM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: Fintan
If there is a market for used butts....we may have just found our calling!
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posted on
04/13/2005 8:21:09 AM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: kingattax
Whatever idiot moron discriminating person is paying that much for an extinguished piece of formerly burning garbage otta' be my favorite uncle!
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posted on
04/13/2005 8:28:27 AM PDT
by
MarineBrat
(Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They need changing often, and for the same reason!)
To: MarineBrat
right you are, "cuz"...lol
To: Calpernia
ROFL!!!!!!!!
We can save all the ones the nannys complain fly into their car windows and sell them to them!!!!
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posted on
04/13/2005 8:33:56 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(John Paul II, pray for us.)
To: kingattax
I thought for sure the article was going to state that it was the last cigarette smoked by the Pope.
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posted on
04/13/2005 8:44:56 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
( .:: Johannes Paulus Magnus: "Well done, good and faithful servant!" ::.)
To: kingattax
Lovely picture of Janeane Garofalo.
To: Liberator
To: kingattax
Some people have too much money and too little brain.
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posted on
04/13/2005 9:35:09 AM PDT
by
DustyMoment
(FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
To: kingattax
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posted on
04/13/2005 9:39:25 AM PDT
by
Ciexyz
(Let us always remember, the Lord is in control.)
To: Calpernia
If there is a market for used butts....we may have just found our calling!
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We are talking about cigarettes, right??? |
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posted on
04/13/2005 10:26:34 AM PDT
by
Fintan
(Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.)
To: Fintan
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posted on
04/13/2005 10:29:02 AM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
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