Wife for Sale

Surfers of Brazil's Mercado Livre site - Ebay for the rest of us - could have bid on the vintage yellow beach cruiser or the bin of secondhand ipods. Or one Breno Bonin's wife.

That's right. Apparently a little short of cash, Mr. Bonin listed his wife for sale on ebay - for fifty bucks.

What will $50 get you?

Apparently she is in "almost mint condition" and among other glowing attributes I'm too grumpy to mention, "hasn't reached menopause and is 35 years old." But before you consign Mr. Bonin to one of the lower circles of husband hell, he very generously offered to buy his wife back once his financial situation improved.

I really hope this is an April Fool's Day prank still popping up in the news, or Mr. Bonin's financial situation may really be in dire straits when he wakes up not only to find his wife missing, but the um, pair it took to write the listing in the first place.

As a bonus, I couldn't help but notice the links listed below the article. If only randonly generated ebay links was aware of its clever comic timing:

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