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March 11, 2005
The “Ridiculous eBay Auction” Oscar Winner
Well, folks, the Golden Palace Casino has done it again ... won another foolish auction. This time it was the breast implants of former stripper “Tawny Peaks”.
In 1998, Peaks made news headlines when she was accused of assaulting a man by hitting him with her breasts. The victim claimed to have suffered whiplash injury because her implants were like “two cement blocks". The People's Court later rejected the suit after former NY Mayor Ed Koch ruled the assets soft and therefore non-lethal.
In 1999 the stripper married and had her implants removed. On February 26th, she put her implants for sale on eBay and the Golden Palace Casino bought them for $16,766.00.
We have reported in the past that the Golden Casino bought the now-legendary Virgin Mary toasted cheese sandwich for $28,000 and a haunted walking cane for $65,000.
In the same month, the casino bought the “Mystery Envelope” for $7,600.
This all seems pretty nutty – but is it? Look at the publicity gained for the GP Casino. They're so famous now that people most likely expect them to bid on nutty eBay auctions. Does all this attention translate into more visitors to their casino. We have no way of knowing, but I'll give anyone 100-1 odds that it does (sorry, a little gambling analogy there). Any even halfway decent PR representative would be proud!
Posted by SydneyJohnston at March 11, 2005 1:05 PM
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