Star Trek actor William Shatner has sold his kidney stone for $25,000 (£14,000) to GoldenPalace.com, an online casino, to raise money for Habitat for Humanity, a housing charity.
“This takes organ donors to a new height, to a new low, maybe. How much is a piece of me worth?” said Shatner, who passed the stone last autumn. The process is said to be excruciatingly painful, and the auction price includes the surgical stint and string used to permit passage of the stone. The whole thing gives a new resonance to the phrase ‘to boldly go’ which Shatner made famous.
The stone was so big, Shatner said, “you’d want to wear it on your finger. If you subjected it to extreme heat, it might turn out to be a diamond.”
“This is a bold new addition to our fleet,” Richard Rowe, GoldenPalace.com chief executive officer said in a statement. GoldenPalace already own a partially eaten cheese sandwich containing the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a Cheeto cheese snack in the shape of Baby Jesus and a VW Beetle once owned by Pope Benedict XVI. Now with the ‘Shatner Stone’ added to this pantheon of holy relics, it would seem the online casino has cornered the market in 20th century cultic items.
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[News source: BBC]
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