I was going to say the same, but brevity prevailed. <g>
Cheers
At 22:24 25/04/01, Shel wrote:
>After reading several messages about how "sick" it is to sell these
>negs and pics on eBay, I've come to wonder why that is. If the
>seller had offered these same items to a sports or racing magazine,
>a newspaper or tabloid, I don't think there'd be a question about
>his "sickness". Rather, I suspect many people would be commenting
>about how lucky he was to get a "money" shot and how clever he was
>to be able to have found a buyer.
>
>Is this any sicker than the Zapruder film, or the documentary
>footage of the Hindenberg disaster - or the thousands of frames
>exposed in Viet Nam during the war, or the prize winning photo of a
>baby being thrown from a burning building?
>
>So, could someone please tell me why it's any sicker to offer this
>on eBay than to Motor racing News, Sports Illustrated, or USA Today,
>or why it's sicker than the above photos.
Jon
Relax! Take life as it comes, you can't chase the sun, you can't race the wind
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