I saw an article where there was an auction of the Personal Belongings of Ted Kaczynski the Unabomber. There are a lot of things I don’t understand and this is one of them.
Before I move on with this Blog Posting allow me to tell you how stupid we (not me) are...
In total 58 items were sold for $232,246
Why would anyone want anything that once belonged to an acknowledged bad guy and this bad guy is one really bad guy...
- The span of his crimes was 1978 to 1995.
- He killed 3 people.
- He wounded 23 people.
- He was convicted of 10 counts of transportation, mailing, and use of bombs and 3 counts of murder.
- He has been sentenced to serve 8 consecutive life sentences with no possibility of parole.
What are the people who end up acquiring his stuff going to do with his stuff? Let’s say that Sidney Sillyperson is now the proud owner of the Unabomber’s Shoes. How is he going to go about enjoying his new old shoes?
Here are some circumstances where Sidney might convince his silly self that he has made a wise purchase...
- Sidney might put them on and wear them to grocery store but this might not work because the people he came in contact with would not know that he was wearing a really special pair of shoes.
- He might have to resort to wearing a sandwich board that called the other shopper’s attention to the fact that they were in the presence of something really special.
- Maybe he could partner with the grocery store proprietor and an announcement could be made over the store’s PA System along these lines, “At this very moment in the canned meat aisle one of your fellow shoppers is proudly wearing the Unabomber’s Actual Shoes. Get 25% off on canned corned beef while the Proud Unabomber Shoe Owner shops in the canned meat aisle. This is a limited time offer. Better get there quickly because once he makes his turn into the pasta aisle this savings opportunity is null and void.”
As for me, I would not want to own the Unabomber’s Shoes. There are things I would pay big bucks to own. For example, I would jump at the chance to acquire Jack be Nimble’s Candlestick! What a treasure that would be!
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
Lagniappe: Here is more than you ever wanted to know about Jack
be Nimble...
Jack the Pirate:
The nursery rhyme Jack be Nimble refers to an English
privateer (later pirate) named Black
Jack Smatt. Black Jack lived on Jamaica, in Port Royal, which during
the Golden Age of Piracy was
known as “The Wickedest City on Earth.” Black Jack was one of the most famous
pirates of the Caribbean, particularly for the reason of being notoriously smart
(and quick and nimble) to escape from authorities,
who in his later pirate years wanted to capture and hang him.
Jack the Jumper:
Jumping over the candlestick was an old medieval game. It originated from an
ancient pagan tradition of jumping over fires. A person was supposed to jump
over a burning candle so that the flame was not extinguished. This was seen as
a good luck forecast.
