Ronald Reagan's blood for sale at online auction house

[DiscoBerry]

Thirty-one years after Ronald Reagan was shot and nearly killed by a would-be assassin, an online auction house on the island of Guernsey (an autonomous British protectorate and controversial tax haven just off the northern coast of France) is making available to the highest bidder a glass vial it says once held the president’s blood.
Sixty-nine days after being sworn in, Reagan was attacked outside a Hilton Hotel in Washington by John Hinckley, Jr., a schizophrenic young man who later said he was trying to impress the actress Jodie Foster. The Secret Service rushed the president to George Washington University Hospital, where he underwent emergency surgery. Despite significant internal injuries and bleeding, Reagan recovered and was back at work at the White House only weeks later.

I would like to apologize to the people of Britain, for our ridiculousness rubbing of on you guys.   

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/ronald-reagans-blood-for-sale-bid-now/

[SpaceProg]

I uh... yeah...   
I've been known to collect some weird stuff, but I draw the line at bodily fluids and excretions... or actually just about anything 'body part' related.

[Art Vandelay]

Thirty-one years after Ronald Reagan was shot and nearly killed by a would-be assassin, an online auction house on the island of Guernsey (an autonomous British protectorate and controversial tax haven just off the northern coast of France) is making available to the highest bidder a glass vial it says once held the president’s blood.

They're not selling Reagan's blood, they're selling a vial that at one point supposedly contained his blood.

Do try to actually read news articles before commenting on them.

[ThunderWulf]

Whether or not it's his blood or the vial, still, WTF?  And I will not be surprised if people fall for this scheme either.

[SpaceProg]

I don't like touching things that even held blood unless they're sterilized.  Call it an OCD thing.

[Shane for Wax]

Ewwwwww. Even if it isn't actually blood. It's still a bio-hazard.

[Smurfette Principle]

How is that something you can prove? I could literally just pick up any random glass vial and say that it once contained magical fairy jizz and it would have the same amount of proof behind it.

[Osama bin Bambi]

How is that something you can prove? I could literally just pick up any random glass vial and say that it once contained magical fairy jizz and it would have the same amount of proof behind it.

I think once a guy tried to sell a ghost in a jar on eBay. Someone was actually going to buy it, but then the offer got taken down because it was bullshit. It's amazing that someone actually fell for it, though.

[DiscoBerry]

How is that something you can prove? I could literally just pick up any random glass vial and say that it once contained magical fairy jizz and it would have the same amount of proof behind it.

I think once a guy tried to sell a ghost in a jar on eBay. Someone was actually going to buy it, but then the offer got taken down because it was bullshit. It's amazing that someone actually fell for it, though.

Or the famous N'sync pancake. 

[The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist]

How is that something you can prove? I could literally just pick up any random glass vial and say that it once contained magical fairy jizz and it would have the same amount of proof behind it.

I think once a guy tried to sell a ghost in a jar on eBay. Someone was actually going to buy it, but then the offer got taken down because it was bullshit. It's amazing that someone actually fell for it, though.

It would be funny if some fundie politician came along and tried to charge both of them with human trafficking.

[MadCatTLX]

I believe this is relevant.

[Barbarella]

Yeesh! I could clip my toenails, keep them in the jar, then sell it on ebay for a ton of bucks just by saying, "COOL VINTAGE CLASSIC ROCK MEMORABILIA OFFER!: A YEARS WORTH OF TOENAIL CLIPPINGS FROM ALL THE MEMBERS OF LED ZEPPELIN!"?

No thanks....tempting as it is!

REAL ROGER WATERS LOOGIE! - Carefully Swiped From My Face & Kept In Jar Since The 1977 "Animals" Concert I Attended!

RINGO STARR'S BOOGERS - An Epic Sneeze From A Very Epic Nose!

SHARON STONE'S USED TAMPON!

MARLON BRANDO'S FACE MIRACULOUSLY ON A SOCK - This Is An Offer YOU CAN'T REFUUUUSE!!

MICK JAGGER'S FART IN A JAR! It's A Gas Gas Gaaaass!

[Thejebusfire]

That would be like taking a shit and saying it's the shit that Elvis died taking. I know I'm probably going to get a lot of fuck no's for that, but that's how I see it.

[Osama bin Bambi]

It's obvious that the government is going to "acquire" Ronald Reagan's blood in some way or another and use it to complete their master-race alien-robot breeding clone project.

[MadCatTLX]

It's obvious that the government is going to "acquire" Ronald Reagan's blood in some way or another and use it to complete their master-race alien-robot breeding clone project.

I'm curious to hear your dad's take on this, if that isn't actually it.