How much would you pay for an old, wooden chair that you can't even sit in? Resident Lou Balducci is hoping at least $25,000.I'll bet he heard angels singing when he thought he could get some sucker to pay $25 grand for that chair. Sadly, no one bid on it. I'm guessing that chipped paint Jesus images just don't go for what they used to. It's part of Obama's recession - there's just not as much desire for Messiahs as there once was.
Balducci has listed an old patio rocking chair, purchased at HomeGoods some 10 years ago, on eBay with a starting bid price of $25,000. But this isn't just any old rocking chair; it's one that bears the image of what Balducci believes to be Jesus Christ.
Balducci first noticed the anomaly in February as he and his wife were preparing to throw away a pair of rocking chairs that had sat in their backyard for years. The chairs' wood was rotting and their supports were broken. White paint flaked off anytime the chair was moved or touched.
His wife had thrown away the chairs' rain-soaked cushions a few days before. Balducci stood outside on the back patio, smoking a cigar and staring at the pair of barren, unusable chairs when something caught his eye. In a paint-chipped, rotting knot of wood near the base of one chair's backrest, Balducci saw the face of Jesus as he knows him to be.
Balducci is not "super religious," he said, though the experience has led him not to doubt the existence of God. But he said he knows there are others out there who might be able to appreciate more than he does what some have come to call "the Jesus chair." Additionally, he said he was hesitant to give it to any of his children, who all have young children of their own.
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