People have many different ways of spending the week leading up to Christmas, but bidding on an eBay auction for a toilet that belonged to Jerry Garcia is one of the least traditional.
Nevertheless, that’s what will be happening this year – The Sophia Foundation, a nonprofit group, will be auctioning off the dead hippy drug-addict guitarist’s appliances through eBay.
eBay will host the charity auction of appliances from Grateful Dead (CDs)
lead singer Jerry Garcia’s house between December 18-24. That means
that a lucky bidder might end up with Jerry Garcia’s freezer, toilet or
stereo cabinet just in time to see in 2006.
All money raised from the Jerry Garcia online auction will go to The
Sophia Foundation, an organisation which aids children and families
during marital separations and divorces. Buy A Hippy’s Crapper, Help A Kid isn’t the slogan for the auction, but it might as well be.
Henry Koltys, the chairman of The Sophia Foundation, decided upon
the auction after he bought Jerry Garcia’s old Californian house in
1997, two years after Jerry croaked it in a drug treatment centre.
According to Henry, all of Jerry’s stuff has been appraised and valued
at $75,000, but he is hopeful that the eBay auction will reach more:
“There’s a lot of Deadheads out there with money, and they want a piece of Jerry somehow.”
At
least Jerry Garcia is dead, so he won’t have a last minute
change-of-heart and pull his stuff like Britney Spears did with her spangly bra.
Read more:
Your chance to own Jerry Garcia’s toilet – MSNBC
[story by Stuart Heritage]
sue sneddon says
Any follow up to this? Was much money raised on ebay?