Shatner sells his stone on eBay
Filed under: Awards, Celebrities and Controversy, Fandom
Quick – off the top of your head – what's the ultimate piece of Star Trek memorabilia? Times up – and whatever you came up with, you were wrong. William Shatner is selling his kidney stone on eBay, and he promises that it's going to be – wait for it – "the ultimate piece of Star Trek memorabilia". This is my favorite part of the WENN story: "Shatner plans to give the proceeds of the sale to charity, but he has
to cut through eBay red tape first - the website's rules are strict
about the sale of body parts." Uh, as well they probably should be. Shatner passed the stone last month after a battle with "excruiciating pain" that he had wrongly assumed was back related. The 74-year-old probably doesn't need the money – after all, he's got a job – so what's in it for him? Does he really care about the fans *that* much? Or is he just a crazy old coot?
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11-19-2005 @ 1:21AM
News VRRRM said...
Trafficking in human organs is indeed a federal felony in America, but a kidney stone is no more an organ of the human body than a pearl is the organ of an oyster.
Did WENN skew the facts? It wasn't Shatner who claimed that his kidney stone is "the ultimate Star Trek collectible."
Here's the straight dope: a complete transcript of Shatner's interview on Jimmel Kimmel Live, with a video clip, via VRRRM...
http://vrrrm.com/tv/Kimmel/05/ShatnerKimmel51114.php
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11-19-2005 @ 1:32AM
bertram said...
in response to your querey, karina, i'm going to go with crazy old coot on this one. seems to me he's gone from admiral to space cadet.
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