Monday, July 22, 2002

The Vast eBay Conspiracy
The San Diego Union Tribune reveals that while the San Diego County Treasurer/Tax Collector rarely shows up at the County office building, he is a Power Seller of computer games on eBay with 22,000 positive feedbacks.

Meanwhile, according to an LA Times report, lawyers are bidding against each other for evidence on eBay. Anybody want an unopened pack of Kents with asbestos filters?

And then there is the suspended Baltimore priest
who served as youth minister at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen (and) pleaded guilty to a Internet pornography charge yesterday, admitting that he received graphic images of children on his computer in the church rectory.

Court records released yesterday also showed that authorities moved to arrest the Rev. Thomas A. Rydzewski last year after an eBay seller grew suspicious of Rydzewski's online purchases, which included anatomically correct dolls, photos of altar boys and adult "baby briefs" - men's underwear decorated with dinosaurs, trucks and tractors.

It seems that the mailing address he used for his more than $6000 worth of purchases was that of the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen.