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By Associated Press
POSTED: 03:10 p.m. EST, Nov 06, 2009
DULUTH, Minnesota: The motorized chair belonging to a man arrested for driving it into a parked car last year while drunk has sold for $10,099.99.
Proctor Police Chief Walter Wobig didn't immediately know the winning bidder's name or hometown after it was sold at a eBay auction Thursday, according to the Duluth News Tribune.
Wobig says international media attention helped fuel the bidding.
The chair was built by Dennis LeRoy Anderson. He had pleaded guilty to driving the motorized chair with a blood-alcohol level nearly four times the legal limit.
Anderson says he expected the chair would fetch only $2,000 to $3,000.
The recliner is powered by a lawnmower engine. It comes equipped with a stereo, cup holders and lights.
DULUTH, Minnesota: The motorized chair belonging to a man arrested for driving it into a parked car last year while drunk has sold for $10,099.99.
Proctor Police Chief Walter Wobig didn't immediately know the winning bidder's name or hometown after it was sold at a eBay auction Thursday, according to the Duluth News Tribune.
Wobig says international media attention helped fuel the bidding.
The chair was built by Dennis LeRoy Anderson. He had pleaded guilty to driving the motorized chair with a blood-alcohol level nearly four times the legal limit.
Anderson says he expected the chair would fetch only $2,000 to $3,000.
The recliner is powered by a lawnmower engine. It comes equipped with a stereo, cup holders and lights.
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Norka, Oh
Posted 03:27 PM, 11/06/2009
Caveat Emptor....this chair will lead you down the road to ruin......
Barnum & Baily were right......
Posted 03:27 PM, 11/06/2009
Now that is funny.
ɥo 'uoɹʞɐ, ㎯
Posted 03:31 PM, 11/06/2009
somewhere near you, OH
Posted 04:29 PM, 11/06/2009
Good for Anderson!
I wonder why the Duluth newspaper thinks it's any business of the proctor who bought the chair or where they live? Are they expecting him to let the local police know such a danger to society will now be in their jurisdiction?
akron, oh
Posted 05:45 PM, 11/06/2009
that ugly free enterprise at work.
Posted 06:45 PM, 11/06/2009
it just goes to show what people thrive on this day & age as well as alot of other good things in life?:"{ _">??
Posted 07:48 PM, 11/06/2009
well, you see sheila, despite this situation turning out all well and good, it is just a one in a million type story. Mr Anderson souldn't have had the opportunity to create such a thing. Thus preventing him from getting in trouble in the first place.
Some day we will all be happy and holding hands and healthy and free and the government will take care of everything for us and events like what led to the sale of this chair.
Im appalled that someone would have that much disposable income to spend on a such a useless novelty.
But there is change in the air, and we all are in for better days of economic equality.
Funtown, OH
Posted 09:52 PM, 11/06/2009
Am I the only one that followed the story? I looked it up on ebay after I watched it on the news two days prior to ending. The going bid was over $25,000 on ebay. They even interviewed the Po-Po in Minnesota, and he said it was over $20,000. Where'd the money go? Who's the fake???
