A British radio DJ is mourning the loss of his 25,000 pounds ($48,000) Lotus Esprit Turbo car after his outraged wife sold the car on eBay UK for the grand sum of 50 pence (90 US cents)
Hayley Shaw became outraged after hearing her husband, Tim Shaw, interview model Jodie Marsh on his radio show. She became furious with the flirting but when Tim went too far by joking on-air that he would leave his wife and children for Marsh, Hayley completely snapped. She put his very expensive car on eBay with a buy-now-price of 50 pence (90 cents).
In what will go down as one of the greatest acts of marital revenge in history, Mrs Shaw wrote in the auction description : “I need to get rid of this car immediately - ideally in the next 2-3 hours before my cheating husband gets home to find it gone and all his belongings in the street.”
She finished with : ”I am the registered owner and I have the log book. Please only buy if you can pick up tonight.”
Needless to say, the car was snapped up immediately by eBay user ID “goddamn7” and Mr Shaw came home to find the driveway empty. He is now the unwilling celebrity on news programmes and the butt of jokes everywhere.
The radio station, Kerrang 105.2, based in Birmingham, said Mr Shaw was taking a few days off to talk things over with his wife.
“I am sick of him disrespecting this family for the sake of his act," said Mrs Shaw to the press. "Maybe it was childish but I had had a few drinks that night and I just thought I would get him back the best way I could. The car is his pride and joy but the idiot put my name on the log book so I just sold it. I didn’t care about the money, I just wanted to get him back," she added.
Oh, and to rub salt into the wounds, the buyer has left his positive feedback :
“thank you Hayley the car is excellent thank your hubby for me”
http://feedback.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedbackMemberLeft&memberid=goddamm7&items=-1&item=-1&de=off
A wife who suspected her husband of foul deeds has humiliated him by sending a vitriolic email from his laptop to his entire contact database. Titled “Time to ‘Fess up!”, the email - purporting to come from PR company boss Paul Evans - was not exactly subtle.
“I, Paul Owen Evans, am a snivelling, cheating, lying, arrogant little piece of shit. No, that’s not right - I’m worse than that: I’m a despicable, deceitful, dodgy, DICKHEAD who doesn’t reserve this attitude just for his wife. Oh yes, one more thing - I’ve got an extremely small penis that couldn’t excite a woman’s nostril let alone anything else. Thus endeth my confession. Regards. Paul Evans.”
We understand that Mrs Evans was not in a good mood (and Mr Evans is none-too-pleased either). Unfortunately, among Paul’s contacts were his bosses at Seat, as well those at Volkswagen, industry top-nobs, rally drivers and, of course, contacts and friends.
At the time of the mailing, Paul was attending a big car launch in Barcelona and the first he heard of it was when friends called him up. Mrs Evans was confronted at the family home and admitted she’d sent it to upset him but wouldn’t go into any further details.
Again, the power of email has been clearly demonstrated. It was only last month that Claire Swire and Bradley Chait became Net celebrities thanks to their frank discussion over the merits of Bradley’s love juice. Now half the country has heard about Paul Evans and his wife’s suspicions.
Scary ain’t it?
Incidentally, we were very interested to note the different approaches to this story by the Mirror and the Daily Mail. The Mirror blacked out the words “cheating”, “lying”, “deceitful” and “dodgy”. It also starred-out the word “shit” but had no problem with “dickhead” - even though it was in caps. The Mail, on the other hand, had no problem with the non-swear words, but “shit” and “dickhead” had to be replaced by Xs.
Also, while the Mirror reports that Paul looked as if he “didn’t have care in the world” when he returned to London yesterday, the Mail reckoned he “struck a forlorn, desperate figure”. You could tell he was very upset, apparently. Amazing how a man could be both relaxed and desperate at the same time.
