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World’s most expensive piece of junk?

// January 27th, 2010 // p2p

p2pnet view Cool:- The Bugatti Veyron on the right has been called the most expensive car in the world. At close to $2,000,000 per, that’s probably pretty accurate. That being so, the Bugatti on  the left might be described at the most expensive piece of junk in the world. Because after spending 73 years at the bottom of Lake Maggiore in Switzerland, it was auctioned off in Paris, the weekend gone, for €260,500 (about $390,254 CAD). But the money is for a good cause. Jens Boerlin and other members of the Ascona sub-aqua club retrieved it in July, 2009, “prompted by the murder of a member of the diving club, one Damiano Tamagi, who was attacked by three youths in February 2008″, says the Independent . The proceeds will go to the Damiano Tamagi Foundation, a charity dedicated to the prevention of youth violence, it says. - … .. … and identi.ca More First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi Independent – Money to go to foundation against youth violence, January 28, 2010 Use free p2pnet newsfeeds for your site. Subscribe to - | | rss feed: http://-/feed -? -