South Texas snowball goes for $92 on eBay
Proving that P.T. Barnum’s theory of human stupidity was spot-on, someone has agreed to pay $92 for a $&#^*@& snowball. You have GOT to be kidding….
BROWNSVILLE - An unidentified eBay bidder has agreed to pay $92 for a chunk of what may have been the Rio Grande Valley’s first-ever white Christmas.
Bids closed Saturday for the basketball-sized snowball now waiting next to the ice cream in 23-year-old Oscar J. Garza’s kitchen freezer.
Eighteen people bid on the ball of “Miracle Snow” between Jan. 3 and Jan. 7, starting at a few dollars. Some bids, including one for $99 million, were canceled or retracted before closing.
Garza, a student at Texas A&M University, told The Brownsville Herald he was surprised the snowball actually sold.
“I kind of did it as a joke and I ended up getting local and national coverage,” Garza said.
Brownsville got several inches of snow in the pre-dawn hours of Dec. 25, the area’s first snow accumulation in 109 years.
Silly me; I spent my Christmas Eve enjoying myself and marvelling at the snowfall when I should have been trying to figure our how to capitalize on our good fortune. I suppose this is why Donald Trump is fabulously wealthy and I’m…well, just fabulous.
We likely will never again see snow on Christmas Eve in our lifetime. I suppose I’ll just have to look for another opportunity to make a quick buck….
