So...this is how to stop a hurricane?

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So...this is how to stop a hurricane?

#1 Postby GalvestonDuck » Wed Oct 19, 2005 2:37 pm

Auction it off in the same way people have done for diseases and ghosts? Now why didn't I think of that! :lol:

http://cgi.ebay.com/HURRICANE-WILMA_W0Q ... dZViewItem
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#2 Postby O Town » Wed Oct 19, 2005 2:40 pm

No way, that is it, now I have seen everything on E Bay.
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#3 Postby tronbunny » Wed Oct 19, 2005 2:41 pm

of course!
voodoo meterology :D
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#4 Postby JuliannaMKH » Wed Oct 19, 2005 2:42 pm

Hmm. But wherever would I keep it? :)
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#5 Postby 100feettstormsurge » Wed Oct 19, 2005 2:44 pm

:roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:
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#6 Postby Brent » Wed Oct 19, 2005 2:46 pm

OMG...

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#7 Postby MiamiensisWx » Wed Oct 19, 2005 2:52 pm

:lol:

Yes, they don't make the best pets!

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#8 Postby gpickett00 » Wed Oct 19, 2005 3:02 pm

haha check out this guy, he is selling a phone call since he lives where it is supposed to hit

http://cgi.ebay.com/I-will-call-you-dur ... dZViewItem
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#9 Postby jim09091 » Wed Oct 19, 2005 7:07 pm

gpickett00 wrote:haha check out this guy, he is selling a phone call since he lives where it is supposed to hit

http://cgi.ebay.com/I-will-call-you-dur ... dZViewItem


since this idiot "lives" in Jensen Beach, maybe he would realize IT IS ON THE EAST COAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


From ebay listing:

"Hello I live in Jensen Beach on the west coast of Florida. I will call, providing my cell phone works, the wining bidder during hurricane Wilma. The call will come during the the most eventful moment. I live about 300 ft from the water and last year there was a much flooding. This is a picture taken during one of last years hurricanes. You can see the frustration I endure"
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#10 Postby jim09091 » Wed Oct 19, 2005 7:13 pm

people are already selling domain names for hurricane wilma.... anything for a buck. :roll:
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#11 Postby greeng13 » Wed Oct 19, 2005 7:14 pm

i like that it says "for local pick up only...will not deliver"
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#12 Postby greeng13 » Wed Oct 19, 2005 7:20 pm

i just had a thought. if no one buys it and this e-bay user "owns" it and it does several billion dollars worth of damage would the seller be responsible to insurance companies,FEMA, etc.? (since it is a "liability" being sold)
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#13 Postby tallywx » Wed Oct 19, 2005 7:25 pm

greeng13 wrote:i just had a thought. if no one buys it and this e-bay user "owns" it and it does several billion dollars worth of damage would the seller be responsible to insurance companies,FEMA, etc.? (since it is a "liability" being sold)



Only if God doesn't "engage in litigation" vis-a-vis an intellectual property rights violation first, if you know what I mean.
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#14 Postby greeng13 » Wed Oct 19, 2005 7:29 pm

tallywx wrote:
greeng13 wrote:i just had a thought. if no one buys it and this e-bay user "owns" it and it does several billion dollars worth of damage would the seller be responsible to insurance companies,FEMA, etc.? (since it is a "liability" being sold)



Only if God doesn't "engage in litigation" vis-a-vis an intellectual property rights violation first, if you know what I mean.


That's awesome. I am rolling on the floor!

I guess it might get Hannah/Barbera (sp?) in a roar too as that is Fred Filnstone's wife involved!
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#15 Postby WindRunner » Wed Oct 19, 2005 7:53 pm

Wow . . . someone actually bid a penny. :lol:
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#16 Postby kranki » Wed Oct 19, 2005 8:25 pm

I guess that you, people, missed the report of the miami guy/company that wants to seed the storms with their powder which converts the water in the clouds to a gooe which would fall from the sky, but then break up in the salt water below. Supposedly, completely environmentially ok.

That was on Fox News about a week ago. Sounded ridiculous at the time. Considering how close I am to Wilma's future path, it sounds pretty good right now! ;)
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#17 Postby Coredesat » Wed Oct 19, 2005 8:27 pm

The penny is the starting bid. :lol:
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#18 Postby greeng13 » Wed Oct 19, 2005 8:30 pm

kranki wrote:I guess that you, people, missed the report of the miami guy/company that wants to seed the storms with their powder which converts the water in the clouds to a gooe which would fall from the sky, but then break up in the salt water below. Supposedly, completely environmentially ok.

That was on Fox News about a week ago. Sounded ridiculous at the time. Considering how close I am to Wilma's future path, it sounds pretty good right now! ;)


Dyno-Mat?

That was around last year too. :D
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#19 Postby crazycajuncane » Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:24 am

Let's say the Hurricane didn't hit Florida (maybe dodged just south or went somewhere else) someone would be without a penny! :lol:

Can we somehow get this guy to promise us to stand by a tree during the worst gust and take a picture? It'd be something I'd like to own.
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#20 Postby NFLnut » Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:32 am

kranki wrote:I guess that you, people, missed the report of the miami guy/company that wants to seed the storms with their powder which converts the water in the clouds to a gooe which would fall from the sky, but then break up in the salt water below. Supposedly, completely environmentially ok.

That was on Fox News about a week ago. Sounded ridiculous at the time. Considering how close I am to Wilma's future path, it sounds pretty good right now! ;)



Ah, yes. The DynoMat dude. He's been trying to sell his snake oil for the last few years. No one believes him.
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