Unabomber Ted Kaczynski's personal possessions set for creepy online auction

[YosemiteSam]

Get Some!

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Ok this is kind of creepy. The US Marshalls Office today said it will hold an online auction of the personal effects of the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski.

The auction will run until June 2 and includes personal documents, such as driver's licenses, birth certificates, deeds, checks, academic transcripts, photos, and his handwritten codes; typewriters; tools; clothing; watches; several hundred books; and more than 20,000 pages of written documents, including the original handwritten and typewritten versions of the "Unabom Manifesto."

Proceeds from the auction will be used to compensate Kaczynski's victims.

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[ZeroClub]

Geeze ... this is a tough one for me.

On the one hand, it is difficult not to be in favor of compensating victims.

On the other hand, the celebrity auction for a criminal seems distasteful.

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How about this?

Would it be o.k. with you if Kaczynski were required to autograph an 8 X 10 glossies of himself and then have the Feds sell the autographs online to compensate victims?

(Is it worth trading on a criminal's celebrity if it raises money for his/her victims?)