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Old 08-22-2007, 02:03 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by Burninator View Post
The 21-year-old New York man said Tuesday he had no choice but to sell the ball — several people told him he would be taxed on the souvenir just for holding on to it.

"It wasn't hard. It was simple math. I'm upset by the decision I had to make," Murphy said. "I wanted to keep it. I'm young. I don't have the bank account. ... It would have cost me a lot more to keep it."

What a groin cash grab by the government.
yeah, sounds like a bunch of crap to me. How can they arbitrarily assign any value to the ball whatsoever?
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