If you can dream it, you are able to find it on eBay – and that includes Jack Kevorkian’s assisted suicide van. Nevertheless, eBay is planning to crush this dream, says the Associated Press. The online auction depot felt they had no choice but to crush the dreams of those who are within the market for “murderabilia.” Retired auto parts dealer Jack Finn, who owns the 1968 Volkswagen van, was understandably upset. Mr. Finn had hoped to take in at least $3,400 for his spring cleaning efforts, but eBay decided to get involved.
Kevorkian assisted suicide van and eBay’s moral authority
That is, of course, a topic for a larger forum, but it is clear from eBay’s communication with the AP the business considers the Jack Kevorkian assisted suicide van to be an item “closely associated” with a “notorious murderer of the last 100 years.” Whether a user sounded the alarm or not is unclear, but eBay has come forward and claimed that the listed violated their policy. They told Finn in no uncertain terms that “The listing was removed because it violated the eBay murderabilia policy.” ”I do not run eBay, Craigslist or the world,” said Finn, who clearly was smarting but too stoic to let on. Now Kruse Auctions in Indiana can have to look after the sale in mid-May.
Watch out for the assisted suicide van replica in the Kevorkian film
The new HBO Film “You Do not Know Jack,” which stars Al Pacino as Dr. Jack Kevorkian, contains a replica of the 1968 VW van he used to travel to his patients. The copy is in better shape than the original, which Finn says is water-damaged and dangerous. In the eBay listing, Finn explains that “all safety systems on the automobile would have to be totally overhauled. It might move a bit under its own power, but it isn’t safe.
How did Finn come into such “murderabilia?”
Finn told the AP that he bought the van in 1997 when he was still operating his used auto parts business called Recycled Bugs. Kevorkian has released the old warhorse for scrap that year. Instead of scrap it, Kevorkian’s body shop must have sold it. Per Kevorkian’s lawyer Mayer Morganroth, Dr. Jack is quite upset that the van ever went to auction. Finn is lucky that Jack Kevorkian is not interested in pressing charges over this assisted suicide van auction ordeal, says the AP.
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Jack Kevorkian’s assisted suicide van
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