Usually the first person to do something gets away with it -- the first train robber, the first skyjacker, the first computer hacker, the first sexual predator President, etc. That's why I know this will never work again.
OTTAWA, July 10, 2006 (AFP) - A slacker with a dream of home ownership turned a red paper clip into a three-bedroom house in western Canada through a series of shrewd Internet trades over the past year, he told AFP on Monday.
Canadian Kyle MacDonald, 26, started with a simple online offer on July 12, 2005 to trade the paper clip, which sat on his desk next to his computer, for something a little bigger and better.
Fourteen online trades later, he becomes this week the proud owner of an unfurnished two-storey house on Main Street in the tiny agricultural town of Kipling in the province of Saskatchewan.
Would anyone like some belly-button lint?
Stern lectures for the logically-challenged. Others have opinions, I have convictions.
Monday, July 10, 2006
This Will Never Work Again
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What'cha want for it?
You have a go-fast boat? Or am I going too fast?
Clip to house in just 14 trades? I'm not buying it.
Hereis the rest of the story. It seems there was some intervention by the town, which wanted publicity. They bought the house expressly to trade to the guy for an acting part in a Corbin Bersen movie.
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