Motorized Recliner Fetches Over $10,000

Would you pay over $10,000 for a recliner? Somebody did. Yep, a hefty $10,099 on eBay, according to the New York Daily News. But this wasn't any ridiculously souped up recliner. The "DWI Chair" belonged to 62-year-old Minnesota resident Dennis LeRoy Anderson, the man who recently pled guilty to driving the recliner while drunk and crashing it into a parked car last year. Anderson is serving 2 years probation for the incident and, apparently, didn't get his vehicle back. Instead, it had been in police custody since the incident and ended up on eBay where it sold last Thursday for just over $10k.

Walter Wobig, the police chief in Proctor, Minnesota, told the Duluth News Tribune, "We've had this vehicle in holding since Aug. 31, 2008, and if you would have told me then that it would sell for more than $10,000, I would have said you were nuts." Believe it or not, the department had attempted to sell it on eBay before, with bids reaching up to $43,000, but it remained unsold due to a technicality.

The chair's new lucky owner will be able to take advantage of its pleather exterior, lawn mower engine, stereo, cupholders, headlights, a nitro­us oxide power boost system (use with caution!), drag racing style steering wheel and a parachute. Just one word of advice for the new owner: Don't drink and drive!

Anderson told the Duluth News Tribune that he already has plans drawn up for his next concoction, and it includes a love seat and a snowmobile undercarriage. I wonder if he'd come over and clear my driveway?