EBay Yanks Auction For Schwarzenegger's DNA

charlzard writes "In the Sacramento Bee, the AP is reporting that a cough drop the governor reputedly sucked on, then tossed half-finished into a trash can, was put up for auction on eBay, listed under the heading 'Schwarzenegger's DNA.' It was just as quickly taken down after eBay decided it fell into the category of "body parts," but an eBay spokesman said the seller, identified only as "AMF814," could put it back up for sale if they reclassified it as a collectible. ...if the successful bidder had the wherewithal, this would give 'I'll be back' a new twist."

Biohazard?

[andreMA]

I'd think eBay would have a policy against selling any item that potentially contains pathogens...

Re:Biohazard?

[Txiasaeia]

"It's not a tumah!"

Re:Biohazard?

[andreMA]

s/potentially contains/has signifigantly greater risk of containing/g

Re:Biohazard?

[MSTCrow5429]

You mean any object that is not enclosed 100% of the time in a sterilized bubble?

I'll have my arnie clone be a gardner

[linzeal]

My Jesus clone will be my chef, Bill Gate's clone my butler, Bill Nye's clone can tutor my future children, and I'll take a Molly Ringwald [amazon.com] clone for erm X_____ use. Maybe boost her brain up a notch with some Jeanette Winterson [jeanettewinterson.com] DNA minus the lesbian, well maybe if I got two Mollies. Damn it all, the future is going to be confusing. I better figure out my harem ahead of time.

Re:I'll have my arnie clone be a gardner

[morcheeba]

I was with you all they way up until you said "harem". I'm totally down with Molly, but you do realize that the first 3 people you listed were jesus, bill gates, and bill nye -- you do realize these people are not typical harem material, right?

Re:I'll have my arnie clone be a gardner

[linzeal]

I need people to play tagteam. Bill Gates would be a cool guy if he was just a megalomaniacal wierdo that I knew down from the local bar. I would totally listen to his rants about world domination, he would have some pretty tall tales about himself if he was not the person he is today, right? Jesus would be the pussy guy that would handle all the day to day interaction with the female of the species. Me and bill nye could build crazy machines like that other guy on 'Home Improvement', Tim maybe? Whatev

Re:I'll have my arnie clone be a gardner

[SnoBall]

How about we just get all the arnie clones to take over the world?

Ummmmm

[tiny69]

If the seller fished it out of a garbage can, then how does he know it actually belongs to Arnold Schwarzenegger? Half eating a cough drop sounds like something a kid would do.

Re:Ummmmm

[andreMA]

I could see that; Ahhnold is about to make a speech, and right before he takes the podium he disposes of the coughdrop, which he had been using to soothe a throat sore from too many campaign speeches. Someone (with too much free time) sees this and retrieves it.

Re:Ummmmm

[AnwerB]

> I could see that; Ahhnold is about to make a speech, and right before he takes the podium he disposes of the coughdrop, which he had been using to soothe a throat sore from too many campaign speeches. Someone (with too much free time) sees this and retrieves it.

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Re:Ummmmm

[tiny69]

The seller indicated she or he had seen Schwarzenegger discard the lozenge at a recent public event and had retrieved it.

Nevermind, I should have read the article first. This sounds like something that happened to Marilyn Manson. He cut himself during a concert and cleaned up the bloody mess backstage. The president of one of his fan clubs grabbed the bloody paper towels (or whatever they were) and kept them.

Sick people....

Re:Ummmmm

[linzeal]

We must find those paper towels and DESTROY them!

To the geekmobiles!

Arnold the InsourcerArnold the Insourcer

[sybert]

Arnold goes on a trip and brings 800 new "insourced" jobs [yahoo.com] to Kahleeforneea and all slashdot cares about is that he "outsources" one cough drop?

DNA Programming

[simon13]

I thought there was something fishy about this... Look what else they're selling on eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item =4215498621 [ebay.com]