German parents post baby on eBay for 1 euro

Authorities in southern Germany said Saturday they have taken custody of a 7-month-old boy after his parents posted an ad on eBay offering to sell him for one euro, the equivalent of $1.57. Peter Hieber, a ...

[oiram ifnab]

Glad to see European CPS folks are as stupid as ours.

[Headline Writer 631]

They were just kidding!

[liner]

Oh cmon, this has to be a joke.

[Blue Devil]

This is why you should need a license to have a child.

[unknown]

people are crazy today and would do anything for money. wake up people this is a crazy world we are living in

[cappella]

I wish more folks would fess up and admit that they weren't prepared for parenthood.
No, they weren't simply joking.

[puhlease]

While I certainly wouldn't have done it, I think the copy makes it very clear that this was a joke.
Their mistake was posting this in a place where serious commerce is done.

Along with a million other joke ads though.

[OR YOU SHOULD NEED]

Blue Devil wrote:

This is why you should need a license to have a child.

A license to post here!
Explain genius how you would go about qualifying people for a "baby makers license"?
I need a good laugh!

[Crazy World We Live In]

unknown wrote:

people are crazy today and would do anything for money. wake up people this is a crazy world we are living in

You got that right!

You sometimes wonder what goes through the minds of people when they do such stupid things like this.

Guess these two (23 and 24) weren't aware of life's changes when children come along.

The time to grow up and become responsible adults began 7-months ago for them when their infant son popped out and began depending on them, demanding their attention and consuming most of their time.

[Tijuana Mama]

It was obviously a joke! They probably did it to give a few pals a chuckle.(it costs money to post an ad so they probably wanted the 49 cents worth)(To get a phone call saying "OH NO YOU DID'NT!!!!")
Sad that anyone was stupid enough to take it seriously......
And the child licence commenter....It would be nice if they took away some MORE human rights...heh heh....

[Stroller Roller]

They should have asked for more. The infertile Liberal d-bags up here in Westchester or in Manhattan have all settled for these inferior bred Chinese and Honduran babies for adoption.

They wield their adopted foreigners like social superiority badges of honor. They say "look at me, I am so educated and tolerant I adopted a Oriental baby", however after the novelty wears off and they have to deal with the cultural and emotion issues of having a fish out of water, the experience turns sour. Both baby and mom end up on meds and in therapy. In the end they really just wanted a white baby and would have paid big bucks to get one. That German baby would have been a hot commodity and made one hell of a engineer.

[WOODY from ST JAMES]

OR YOU SHOULD NEED wrote:

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A license to post here!
Explain genius how you would go about qualifying people for a "baby makers license"?
I need a good laugh!

There are many qualities both parents must have before bringing a child into this world.....Many parents are just breeders....bearing children with little to no parenting skills...then those children have children....it"s a down hill slide....If you can"t see this, & ask what qualifies a parent, then PLEASE DON'T HAVE CHILDREN!!!!

[Death Race]

This had to be a joke. Pretty funny if it is. If it's not then they must have moved from Mastic.

[Bill]

The real joke is the child protective services whacko's who now seem to be imcompetent all over the globe. Anyone wanting to know how screwed up this gang is look for a front line documentary titled "what ever happened to Adam Mann". It will make your head spin watching how their arrogance is the only thing stronger than their incompetence. In the coming months you will see that the Nazis in Texas will have no eveidence or case against the nuts on that compound yet their children were all kidnaped by the State of Texas Nazi's.

[anonymous]

unknown wrote:

people are crazy today and would do anything for money. wake up people this is a crazy world we are living in

But for 1.57

[Bill]

Blue Devil wrote:

This is why you should need a license to have a child.

ok so now we make a baby license, the government charges a fee to insure you are competent. You have to attend a course given by a pack of lesbian liberals at a certain cost to you. They instruct you on how you must raise the kid according to their ideas. Now genius what is the punishment for "parenting without a license? Do they take the kid away and put him in the overburdened foster system? Maybe your insurance company does not have to pay because for the birth sice you were unlicensed? Do you have to be married to get this license? After all from what I see gays are the only ones looking to get married these days. The Newsday posters are a mob of morons waiting to institute new fees and license for every thing we do in this "free "country. The only thing you folks like more than a new fee or license is a jail sentence for someone. If they ever bring back public stoning I am sure this crew will be there with bells on.

[Spike]

They're Germans - what do you expect? At least they didn't eat the baby.

[Bite Me]

anonymous wrote:

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But for 1.57

Lots of people post high end expensive items on e-Bay with a starting bid of .99 because they know there item will fetch what they're looking for.

The .99 starting bid saves them from having to pay the extra $$ for the listing fee.

Then there are those sellers who list a 20.00 item for .99 on a BIN auction but charge 21.95 for shipping that costs about 3-bucks.

[Duh]

It was only a joke - get real people...they are too stupid to have kids though, so in the end its best to keep the kid in foster homes the rest of his/her life.

[lindenhurst]

Clearly a joke. Actually, as a sleep deprived new mom myself, I think its very funny. Stop thinking with 'American Humor' and think in terms of European/English type of humor and it will be more in context.
Nothing bad was done to the child, so child protective services needs to relax and go after the real bad guys.
Ebay has a right to file charges for misuse of service. But one of the posters here has a good defense - there are a lot of other jokes on ebay. Simply find a bunch of them and use them to show that didn't intend harm.