The Sun is such a beautiful place to raise a family! We hear the schools there are great, plus they've really gentrified the dodgy areas.
A Spanish woman who claims to own the Sun is suing eBay because she they've blocked her from selling extraterrestrial real estate on their site.
Maria Duran, 54, has claimed ownership of the fiery, life-giving orb since 2010 when she obtained a notarized public document that declares her to be “the owner of the Sun, a star of spectral type G2, located in the centre of the solar system, located at an average distance from Earth of about 149,600,000 kilometers.” Ever since, the crazy bastard herself been selling square-meter plots on the Sun on eBay for one euro each.
Yes, because the Sun is such a beautiful place to raise a family! We hear the schools there are great, plus they've really gentrified the dodgy areas. We're sure that the value of your property on the Sun will only increase in the coming millennia as it begins to implode as well. Never mind the catastrophic changes in density that follow, nor the resulting black hole which sucks the remainder of our solar system into it and turns it to dust. It'll be in the family for generations! A great place for a weenie roast!
Also … is getting a document notarized all it takes to own something? Because if that's true, we own Chipotle. One million free lunches in our mouths right now.
Anyway, eBay pulled Maria's Sun listing, saying they violated its intangible goods policy. Her account was blocked, effectively ruining her solar real estate aspirations. Prior to her account being terminated, she had racked up about 600 orders. Some people just like warm climates, we guess.
But, being an obviously feisty member of the human race, Maria wasn't gonna go down fighting. She's now launched a lawsuit against eBay and rejected their settlement offer on the basis that the UN's Outer Space Treaty says no nation can stake ownership to a heavenly body … but makes no mention of individual. She was inspired by a U.S. entrepreneur who registered several planets under his own name in 2010 and made more than $10 million selling land on the moon, Mars, Venus and Mercury.
The case will focus on eBay’s seller agreement and whether or not she was in breach of that policy. A trial will take place next month, with Maria demanding around £7,500 for payments she says she has not received.
In the meantime, Maria continues to sell Sun plots on her own website so … if high housing prices are pushing you out of the Denver or Boulder areas, you know where to look. Mmm, toasty.
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