Weirdest thing you've seen for sale at a yard sale?

[mooncalf]

I second this motion. It's so much cleaner using a garrote than a bit of chicken wire.

'Course, there is another way...
If you own a piano.

Nobody with any class would ruin a functioning piano to get piano wire, would they?

 

[mooncalf]

Err. I might get banned if I tell you.
The worst after that would be a weird-o rock - it was just a big rock, nothing special about it.
"How much is that?" I asked.
"£30 You want it?" He said.
"Err...no." I said.

What if it was moonrock?!

 

[New Troll]

An occupied urn. Could just imagine the love in that family.

 

[MagnetoHydroDynamics]

I once came across a guy selling war-time helmets and entrenching tools.

I can now cosplay The Soldier if I have a red jacket.

 

[Circus Ascendant]

Some crazy guy was selling a garaut [Not sure how to spell it] at his garage sale, thankfully the police got to the guy and arrested him.

what is this "Garaut"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrote

It's normally a piece of wire (such as nylon or piano wire) that's used to strangle the victim. It was used as corporeal punishment in Spain for centuries.

Corporeal? As in physical? As in, the opposite of ethereal?

I think you meant to say "corporal", and I think you meant "capital." =]

Weirdest thing at a car boot? ("Boot" is English for "Trunk", Americans)

I dunno really. I've not been to one in years. I'd buy a dried piranha though, and the stuffed badger. Maybe they could be friends.

 

[coldwarkid]

Some crazy guy was selling a garaut [Not sure how to spell it] at his garage sale, thankfully the police got to the guy and arrested him.

what is this "Garaut"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrote

It's normally a piece of wire (such as nylon or piano wire) that's used to strangle the victim. It was used as corporeal punishment in Spain for centuries.

Corporeal? As in physical? As in, the opposite of ethereal?

I think you meant to say "corporal", and I think you meant "capital." =]

Weirdest thing at a car boot? ("Boot" is English for "Trunk", Americans)

I dunno really. I've not been to one in years. I'd buy a dried piranha though, and the stuffed badger. Maybe they could be friends.

That I did, thank you very much, sir. And let this be a lesson to everyone: think before you try and look clever.

 

[konkwastaken]

a cell phone

I sold my mobile phone at a yard sale got an astounding $50 for it.
I was surprised too, especially since it was a piece of crap.

 

[w-Jinksy]

a large selection of games and dvds going sheap that had sign next to them saying these arent copies we know we stole them ourselves..... i dont think they were kidding.

 

[Neotericity]

A dentist chair

 

[RetiarySword]

I saw a baby for sale once. I enquired about it been nice in a stu or soup, the woman gave me a weird look and said the chair it was sitting in was for sale. Shame really.

 

[The Political Gamer]

PS3 with Little Big Planet for $50 No really, $50! Best deal ever!

 

[ThaBenMan]

I saw a baby for sale once. I enquired about it been nice in a stu or soup, the woman gave me a weird look and said the chair it was sitting in was for sale. Shame really.

I lol'd.

Now, you British folk - when you're talking about a "car boot sale", is stuff actually sold out of the trunk (boot) of a car? Do you use the same term for if you set up tables on your lawn and sell stuff there, or does no one do that?

 

[similar.squirrel]

My neighbor collected all the cigarette butts from my yard and was "selling" them at his yard sale... I asked him about it, it was just him making a point that I shouldn't smoke in the front yard where kids can see.

You shouldn't leave them lying around in your yard. They take 6 months to biodegrade and squirrels have a propensity for eating them

 

[The_Chief]

A dried piranha.

He now lives on my shelf, and he is called Chris.

Only that was at a car boot, we don't have 'yard sales'.

should of named it petey

 

[Glerken]

A used thing of bengay.

It was only twenty five cents.

 

[philosophicalbastard]

I saw this guy selling gas masks: one for $20, two for $30, or three for $40. He had a box with about twenty gas masks in it.

"Are you my mommy?"

If you don't understand its from doctor who.

 

[AR34SHOOTER]

i once saw a person selling USED clothe diapers.. o and a couple condoms out of the packet... needless to say i didnt buy either 0_o

 

[The Irrelevant Gamer]

A bucket of red, white, and blue sand.