Snow Job?

Well Christmas is over and on top of the usual expenses this time of year, there were some additional car repairs, a quick flight to B.C. for some family matters and a few other things that all told drained the bank account pretty good!

That's why this story I find not only hard to believe myself, but shows me how stupid and unjust the world really is.

(In spite of my thoughts, our research staff checked it out and it's absolutely true! This story got extensive coverage over the last few days here is Canada but I'm not sure how extensively it was covered in the States, Europe or the rest of the World because a lot of people probably thought it was a bunch of crap!)

Are you ready???? Here it is! A guy in Quebec (where they got a few snowstorms over the past few weeks) shoveled out his driveway and had a big snowbank which was then made even bigger by city plows cleaning the roads.

So, this guy has a big snowbank and it blocks his view when he wants to pull out of the driveway, but he doesn't want to have to shovel the whole thing again to clear his line of sight for oncoming traffic. With me so far?

OK, like I said a few sentences ago, here I am facing a few extra bills and what's the best way to pay them, and on the other hand here is a guy with a huge snowbank and he doesn't know how to move it!

That, in a nutshell is our problem.

The solution?

I decide I will have to bear down and just pay off the bills as fast as I can and that's that!

The guy in Quebec with the snowbank decides that rather than move it again....... HE'S GOING TO SELL IT ON E-BAY!

Now this is hard enough to believe but, the real stunner is that HE GOT $3500.00 FOR IT. (That's thirty five hundred bucks)

Don't believe me?

If I'm lyin, I'm dyin! It's nowhere near April 1st and here's the story from Canadian Press!!

After sifting through a couple of phoney offers, a Quebec man found a buyer willing to snap up his snowbank for a cool $3,550.

Michel Levesque, who put his snowbank up for auction on EBay, thought he had unloaded the imposing mound on Saturday.

But the top bid turned out to be a prank, said Levesque, who planned to donate his earnings to a local youth organization.

When the second-highest bidder also declined to buy the pile, he called Sophie Rouillier, whose $3,000 offer was No. 3.

Rouillier and husband, Claude Fraser, jumped at the chance, and, with the help of their three children, dug up another $550.

"It's a snowbank like any other one, but it's the fact of giving a donation ... it's not really for the snowbank," Rouillier said on Sunday, as she stood next to her frosty heap in front of Levesque's house.

She said her family was so thrilled with the purchase that her children decided to break their piggy banks to match the top bid.

The Longueuil, Que., family donates money to different organizations every year, but never more than a few hundred dollars, she said.

But Rouillier said they got caught up in the flurry of media excitement that followed the auction, and kept increasing their offer until it hit $3,000.

"If other people can be encouraged by all of this enthusiasm, it will be great," she said.

Rouillier and her family will be in front of Levesque's house on Monday, selling lumps of the snowbank by the shovel to raise more money for the charity.

The rest will be carted away in a neighbour's trailer. It will be put to good use, she said.

"We're going to bring our shovels and bring the snow home," she said. "We're going to put it on our lawn so the kids can play in it. Of course, we have a snowbank also, but it's not as high as this one."

The Montreal area was pounded by two snowstorms in recent weeks, which helped build the giant bank on Levesque's front yard, in Saint-Eustache, just north of the city.

Levesque said the snowbank auction started off as a joke, but interest in the heap quickly snowballed.

He was shocked to see the bids roll in.

"It's good news, everyone's happy," Levesque said. "All's well that ends well."

On Sunday, he said the snowbank was dirtier than when he first photographed it a couple of weeks ago, but contends the Rouillier family has made a quality purchase.

"It melted a bit, but it's still at a noticeable height," Levesque said of the two-metre mound.

"It's not an extraordinary snowbank, but it's a nice snowbank."

Ain't life a pisser?

Allan W Janssen is the author of the book The Plain Truth About God (What the mainstream religions don't want you to know!) and is available at the web site www.God-101.com

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