Online auction for ER wheelchair
- 22 Aug 06, 10:15 AM
Fed up with your own non-celebrity wheelchair? Want to be able to tell everyone you meet that, even though you may not have appeared on television yourself, your wheelchair has? Got more money than Lady Bracknell could shake her stick at? Then look no further:
You've got until the 8th of September to place your bid for this "Permobil wheelchair from an ER episode featuring James Woods playing a man stricken with ALS. The wheelchair is signed by Mr. Woods and members of the ER cast." Not only that, but they're including a speech augmentation device as well. All the profits made will go to help people living with Lou Gehrig's disease. Bidding starts at US $2000.
There's something worrying Lady Bracknell, though. As you can see from one of the , all the cast signatures are on the comfy soft leather seat part of the wheelchair. So, if you use the wheelchair, no-one will be able to see them. And you risk rubbing them off, unless they've been signed with some kind of superbly sweat-resilient marker pen.
So does this mean that the organisers are expecting the winning bid to come from someone who wants the chair as part of a collection of TV props, and who will just keep it to look at? And, if so, isn't that rather a waste of a very high spec chair?
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See i thought...why sell it. I mean, if they don't need it, and anyone with that kind of money could buy one anyway if they needed it, just flippin...give it to someone. No misty eyes, no oversized cheques, no press, just hand it over. Am i being a grumpy young woman here?
I have got to sit here and giggle, good gosh, that thing is just funny, A wheelchair being auctioned off with autographs on THE SEAT!, someone was not thinking when they did that.
oh well, at least the money is going to a good cause.
I am glad the funds are going to be sent out for a good cause, but is in it weard that people come up with these weard things? Also, why would anyone want a used wheelchair for that kind of money? Funny people...
Is this what people do when they don't know how to spend their fortune? Or are we all missing something that those people see?