Three-year-old Toddler Buys Earthmover in Online Auction for $12,300

[steven johnson]

Getting toddlers on computers at a younger age is not necessarily a good idea. Maybe a little more human interaction would be beneficial.
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: May 22, 2009
Filed at 9:03 p.m. ET

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- A New Zealand mom made some online bids on toys before napping. Then her 3-year-old daughter took over and bought a bigger plaything than expected -- a huge earth-moving digger for a cool $12,300.

Pipi Quinlan made the winning 20,000 New Zealand dollar ($12,300) bid on the Kobelco digger with a few mouse clicks at the auction site TradeMe while her parents slept, the Rodney Times newspaper reported in northern New Zealand.

''I saw an e-mail from TradeMe saying I had won an auction and another e-mail from the seller saying something like `I think you'll love this digger,''' she was quoted as saying in the paper.

Quinlan said she had made auction bids on several toy sets and assumed she had bought a toy digger.


http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/05/22/world/AP-AS-ODD-New-Zealand-Big-Toy.html

[surrealAmerican]

1. That's even better than a pony.

[Deja Q]

2. Damn. Elliot Spitzer could get two hookers and 46.4% of another for that much NZD.

:shrug: