Reminder: Selling Babies on eBay Isn't Cool

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Well, no one ascended to heaven this weekend, and no one ever will if we keep putting up contraband on eBay as a goof. This time, an Allendale, Mich., woman jokingly put the 2-year-old she was babysitting up for sale. And when a bidder's $1,000 offer was accepted, police were called. This has happened before. Naturally, the woman who posted this listing was contrite. "You are all taking it way too seriously and blowing it way out of proportion," she said.

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