Conn. man sells holy hardware on eBay
Let me just state for the record that the whole “The face of Jesus on a [insert name of inanimate object here]” meme has been beaten to death and beyond. It’s almost as old and tired as the “Hot young teacher shtupps her [insert age here]-year-old male student in the back seat of her car (or on her desk)” meme. At least someone is making money off the alleged “face of Jesus”…and how is it that anyone knows what Jesus actually looked like? Beyond the generic “benevolent-looking guy with long hair and a beard” theme, has someone unearthed old photographs of Our Lord and Savior that I haven’t heard about??
People apparently REALLY want to believe in this sort of thing. After all, Jesus has been seen in a frying pan, on the front of a refrigerator, on a grilled cheese sandwich, playing center for the Pittsburgh Penguins (no, wait, that was Mario Lemieux….), on a frosty window…and in other places I couldn’t even begin to imagine. Of course, this being America, someone is going to try to make a few bucks off it, and in this case it’s Thomas DUMB@$$ Haley.
Hmm…Jesus? No…I’m seeing Patrick Swayze…or maybe even Val Kilmer….
MANCHESTER, Conn. (AP) ‚Äö√Ñ√Æ Thomas Haley was unloading supplies for his job at Hardy’s Hardware when he said something odd caught his eye: the face of Jesus Christ on a piece of sheet metal.
Now, Haley and a co-worker are hawking the holy hardware on eBay, hoping potential bidders will agree that the blurry oil stain on the sheet metal does, indeed, resemble Jesus.
“I mean, it hasn’t done anything miraculous as of yet, but seeing it is kind of groovy,” said Haley, 23. “Just seeing it brightens people’s day.”
Haley said he was unloading a supply truck two weeks ago at the Manchester hardware store when he turned a corner and was awe-struck by the holy likeness gazing back at him from the $15.49 piece of sheet metal….
The online eBay auction for the potentially pious sheet of metal started Wednesday, but no potential buyers had placed the minimum $19.95 bid as of Saturday afternoon….
“I feel kind of bad just pawning off Christ,” Haley said….
The auction is scheduled to end March 1 unless someone pays the “buy it now” price: $10,000.
Not so bad that he isn’t trying to make a few bucks off His image. Then again, it’s the American way, no?
Greetings and salivations from the DUMB@$$ Republic…where there really is one born every minute.
