He Madoff With a Lot

For starters, giving your money to a guy named Madoff is just asking for trouble. Is there a more spot-on name? [editor's note- The answer is yes. The doctor where I'm from that used to specialize in Vasectomies was named...wait for it...Dr. Stoppe. Not kidding, and after he retired he passed that mantle to a more caring less old school specialist, Dr. Gentile. It's true you can look it up]

A friend of mine called me up and said that if I was bored watching the Purdue-Michigan State game, like THAT's possible, I should check out the Bernie Madoff Auction. If you are interested you can find it here.

A couple things I'm left with after checking this government run auction out. First, anything that looks like this => can't REALLY be considered a "Gents" watch can it? And what's with that word? Gents. That word can only be used on a bathroom door, and only when it says "Dames" on  the door next to it.

And second, Bernie Madoff needs to be beaten to death with the rest of his watch collection. This guy's collection of chronographs is worth more than Haiti. In fact, there's one that just sold for $20,000. I mean sure it was hand made in Zimbabwe with a Platinum bevel encrusted with Narwal Tusk, 12 princess cut Blood Diamonds and a leather strap made from a baby Albino Seal, with certificate of authenticity. So, of course the value's there, but it just seems excessive.

Everybody can agree that this guy deserves to be locked up for a long long time, but lets not lose sight of the fact that many of the people that are the most outraged are the same people that made up this ponzi scheme. And they wearing making off like bandits. Sure they eventually lost big but nobody was wanting him to go to jail when they were seeing 150% returns.

I guess there really are no free lunches...but some of these watches are a steal.