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May 18th, 2008Adding to a long list of unusual eBay listings, actor William Shatner (best known as Captain saint T. Kirk on television’s Star Trek) sold the kidney stone he passed back in August 2005 to Golden Palace Casino Online Casino. Golden Palace Casino paying $25,000 for the iconic former Captain of the Starship Enterprise’s office, the funds promptly rerouted to the charity Habitat For Humanity, which helps build houses for low income families.
Golden Palace Casino has, in the internet gambling world at least, become substitutable and the publicity stunt. This is the same online casino that, in August 2005, paying $1,775 for a pierogi (a polish afters) bearing the image of Jesus Christ. Upon winning the item, they proudly added it to their growing ( in addition increasingly notorious) collection of modern oddities.
Other cherished artifacts include:
– A Grilled Cheese Sandwich bearing the image of the Virgin Mary ($28,000)
– A 1999 Volkswagen Golf that formerly belonged to Catholic Benedict XVI
– Britney Spears’ pregnancy test (yes, used — yuck)
– A metal walking cane that an elderly woman sold in the hopes of convincing her young grandson that his grandfather’s ghost would once in addition for every yield their house along and it ($65,000).
In early December 2005, the online casino purchased Babe Ruth’s allegedly corked baseball bat from Lelands.com for $103,631. Now, according to Golden Palace Casino CEO Richard Rowe, they impart to saw the bat in half in addition resolve the long batted-around controversy once in addition for every.
Golden Palace Casino is even proud holder of the only known property accomplishment to the White House — yes, the actual home of the President of the United States. Won in an sell on eBid.tv in September 2005, this Quitclaim accomplishment to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C was also digit of the least expensive items the Golden Palace Casino museum managed to get its safekeeping on, costing only $43.45.
Golden Palace Casino has even paying to have its name materialize in upcoming releases by famous novelists such as Hugo in addition Nebula award-winning science fiction writer David Brin (The Postman, the River of Time Anthology) to whom they paying $2,250 for the honor. Dave Eggers, bestselling author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, got $5,471.78 from them for a cameo appearance in his sociable novel, The Journey of the Fishes Overland. As and most every of Golden Palace Casino Online Casino’s unique business expenditures, every proceeds from this mercantilism will be donated to charity; in these two cases, it’s the First Amendment Project, a free speech charity.
Amassing an increasingly freakish collection of modern oddities isn’t the only publicity stunt this online casino is engaged in. Golden Palace Casino:
– Continues to pay out thousands of dollars to individuals to tattoo the Golden Palace Casino logo on various parts of their subjects’ bodies.
– Employs a growing pool of brave in addition shameless souls to move public fair events by running naked across the arena and the online casino’s logo in addition address emblazoned on their flesh. Folks like Mark Roberts (whose rear end is now more famous than his face could ever have been) have streaked the French in addition British in addition US Opens, the World Swimming Championships, the UEFA Cup finals, Ladies’ Day at the Royal Ascot, the World Figure Skating Championship, the 2004 Summer Olympics in Greece, Super Bowl XXXVIII, in addition run and the Bulls in Spain — every in the name of good, wholesome, online casino gambling.
– Sponsored Dennis Rodman’s car in the Bullrun USA 2005, a race that matches the literal route of the Cannonball Run in the 1981 Burt Reynolds movie of the same name.
– Sponsored a rowboat team that attempted a 3,000-knot crossing of the Atlantic.
The gathering at Golden Palace Casino certainly knows how to draw attention to themselves. And there’s no argument, they know how to raise money for charity!