Would you pay $2,500 for an Autographed Picture of Bill Wilson?

True it's not Bill Wilson, but it is Mel Sembler of Straight Inc. fame and his Pump for $300,000. At first i though this was spam and I was going to flame you for it.... but oh my GAWD...........

After Bradbury's ad for Sembler's penis pump appeared in the St. Petersburg Times, attorneys for Sembler demanded that Bradbury stop the ad and return the items he had taken.

They claim that Bradbury demanded $700,000 which they refused to pay.

So, Bradbury advertised the pump on eBay later in 2003, with a price tag of $300,000.

Using the letter from Sembler's attorneys as verification that the penis pump belonged to Sembler, Bradbury's eBay offer read "Pump, one of a kind formerly owned by current United States Ambassador to Italy, who also happens to be the founder of Straight Inc. I am a victim of child exploitation, abuse and fraud by the Ambassador's organization, Straight".

Bradbury, now 41, said that he was offering the device for sale to help defray his medical expenses he says are the result of abuse he suffered while at Straight. He said he would donate 25% of the sale price to "three nonprofit organizations which provide services to the thousands of victims of Straight". He said he also did it to bring attention to Straight survivors.

The Semblers didn't see it that way though. They said that Bradbury had done it to embarrass and humiliate them. Sembler says that the penis pump had been prescribed for him by his doctor as part of his treatment for prostate cancer. Sembler underwent surgery for prostate cancer in 1990.

The Semblers' response was to sue Bradbury in 2004 for intentional infliction of emotional abuse and violation of privacy for publishing a private fact. The case, now known as "Pumpgate" is dragging through the courts.
http://www.thestraights.com/pumpgate/index.htm