On the auction block...New Zealand?

It is amazing what people will try to auction.  Someone, probably as a practical joke or perhaps in protest against some governmental decision, tried to auction off the entirety of New Zealand.  In May of 2006, Ebay pulled the auction offline after the going bid price had risen to $3000Austrian from a starting bid of .01cents and 22 bids.

The Prime Minister Winston Peters said, "I don't think it's funny. I think that kind of stupidity, I'll leave to the tabloid media."

Well, I could afford to buy an island at that rate. 
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