Bridge for Sale

[NanceGreggs]

Opened in 1883, this beautiful expanse that connects the NYC boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn was designed by John Augustus Roebling, and is still seen as being an iconic symbol of NYC itself.

To say the structure has withstood the test of time would be an understatement. Over a century after its opening, the bridge still accommodates over 100,000 vehicle crossings on a daily basis.

The bridge is currently toll-free - but a wise investor can quickly see the obvious income-generating potential of outright ownership.

Price: $15,000 - but no reasonable offer refused. Payment terms negotiable.

Some may wonder why I am offering to sell this national treasure at such a ridiculously low price, and on terms that even the most cautious purchaser can feel comfortable with.

The reason is obvious. As long as there are people who still think Trump won the 2020 election, as long as there are people who still think COVID-19 is a hoax, as long as there are people who still think the insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol on January 6th were simply tourists, I know there are people out there who will believe absolutely anything, and I don't see any reason why I shouldn't take advantage of their stupidity - the same way their Republican leaders do.

[DFW]

1. A word of caution, there, Nance

Republican trolls lurking on DU will think you're serious, and will be bombarding you for the deed transfer paperwork, date and place of signing.

The least you can do is provide them with a bank account in the Cayman Islands where they can send a good faith 50% deposit...........

[NanceGreggs]

3. I've done the research.

What I am offering is perfectly legal, as confirmed in the precedent-setting Bialystock/Bloom case.

[DFW]

4. Max and Leo definitely set a standard for Republican accounting practices

No question about it

It's the only reason Donald Trump isn't begging for spare change on some 7th Avenue corner.

[leftieNanner]

2. And who says

You can only sell it to one person?

Gotta maximize the profit.

74 million people voted for the man!

Go for it Nance!

[lpbk2713]

6. That's it! A GoFundMe.

Hype it up on the Freepworld website.

[BeckyDem]

5. lol +1 Go for it.

I mean come on, who else but Trump & company fits the bill?

In writing his book "Hustlers and Con Men: An Anecdotal History of the Confidence Man and His Games,"
Jay Robert Nash interviewed an elderly swindler named Joseph "Yellow Kid" Weil, who said he had known several criminal vendors of the bridge. Mr. Weil, whom Mr. Nash visited in a Chicago nursing home and described as "probably the greatest con man of the 20th century," recalled a swindler named Reed C. Waddell, who worked the bridge swindle in the 1880's and 1890's. Mr. Weil also claimed to know Waddell's successors in that trade, the notorious Charles and Fred Gondorf.

More here:

For You, Half Price


By Gabriel Cohen
Nov. 27, 2005
THE year is 1899, and a saucy con artist named Peaches O'Day is trying to sell the Brooklyn Bridge. She succeeds, too, passing it off to a gullible fellow who pays her $200 and receives a bill of sale reading, "One bridge in good condition." As punishment, she is run out of town, but she returns in triumph, disguised in a black wig as the French entertainer Mademoiselle Fifi, and goes on to be elected mayor of the city.

So it went in the 1937 comedy "Every Day's a Holiday," a Mae West film that made merry with one of the most cherished notions about New York and the gullibility to be found there: that someone would be foolish enough to buy one of the city's iconic landmarks.

Since the bridge was completed in 1883, the idea of illegally selling it has become the ultimate example of the power of persuasion. A good salesman could sell it, a great swindler would sell it, and the perfect sucker would fall for the scam.

But this was not just a rhetorical or a fictional conceit. A turn-of-the-century confidence man named George C. Parker actually sold the Brooklyn Bridge more than once. According to Carl Sifakis, who tells his story in "Hoaxes and Scams: A Compendium of Deceptions, Ruses and Swindles," Parker -- who was also adept at selling the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Statue of Liberty and Grant's Tomb -- produced impressive forged documents to prove that he was the bridge's owner, then convinced his buyers that they could make a fortune by controlling access to the roadway. "Several times," Mr. Sifakis wrote, "Parker's victims had to be rousted from the bridge by police when they tried to erect toll barriers."

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/nyregion/thecity/for-you-half-price.html

[malaise]

7. K & R

Go for it!

[spanone]

8. K&R

[packman]

10. I got some Florida swampland for a anti-vax town to be built

No hospitals, no taxes, no masks - make your own rules in your own town on prime swampland (gators included)

[keithbvadu2]

11. But won't Christie's fat ass block the bridge?

But won't Christie's fat ass block the bridge?

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[Evolve Dammit]

17. well done. Disgusting, but well done.

[GopherGal]

24. My eyes! My eyes!

get me some eye-bleach, pronto!

[IronLionZion]

12. Venmo me $20 for the truth about crisis actors and COVID

[ffr]

13. I want to cash in on them too!

Every day I'm trying to come up with a grift as good as the ones the QOP offer, but they have all the marketing that I don't.

[Escurumbele]

14. And...Nance does it again...I am still laughing

Beautiful, brilliant.

[AllaN01Bear]

15. then there was a certain cartoon rabbit who tried to sell a certain bridge to a famous bridge jumper

yea , lots of suckers out there . welcome back. i use a approved resperator.

[twodogsbarking]

16. OPEN the bidding at $15k. Put it on ebay.

[pandr32]

18. You're bound to get at least a bite or two

Could go bigger.

[Pobeka]

19. The check is in the mail!

Boy I hope I get it. It's a steal at that price.

[aggiesal]

20. I have some land ...

just west of the Golden Gate Bridge. Maybe I can do the same!

[gratuitous]

21. Okay, it seems the money's all here

I'll go get the deed. It's in my car around the corner. Wait here, I'll be right back.

[George II]

22. When they were dating my mother and father walked across that bridge on Friday night...

....to Chinatown or Little Italy for dinner.

Must have been so cute.

[IrishEyes]

23. I have some ocean front property in Arizona for sale as well.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

25. Be careful: a bridge is a big deal. Just putting a chair out for bids ...

... got Rod Blogojevich a stretch in prison.