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DWI Racing Chair Sells for a $30,000 Loss

Posted Nov 6th 2009 3:25AM by TMZ Staff

The famous DWI racing chair just sold for a respectable $10,099.99 on eBay -- but it's a far cry from the $43,000 bid that was placed on Monday ... when the La-Z-Boy corporation busted in and ruined everything.

DWI Chair

The La-Z-Boy head honchos were pissed because the incredible machine was being sold under their trademarked name -- so the company killed the Proctor Minnesota Police Department's first attempt to sell the chair earlier this week.

The chair was re-listed the day after the cancellation without the La-Z-Boy named attached -- but the damage was done ... as the bidding frenzy fizzled out last night a whopping $32,900.01 below the original highest offer.

The proceeds of the sale were going to benefit Proctor taxpayers ... so sucks for them.

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Tags: chair, department, ebay, la-z-boy, motorized, police, proctor minnesota, ProctorMinnesota, recliner, sale

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Posted at 12:29AM on Nov 6th 2009 by Simone

2. La-Z-Boy should make things right and give Proctor $32,900.

Posted at 12:32AM on Nov 6th 2009 by James in San Diego

3. Thanks for ruining everything, La-Z-Boy! I'm gonna go to one of your showrooms and have an accident while sitting in one of your chairs.

Posted at 1:30AM on Nov 6th 2009 by CriticAl

4. The loss isn't to the people of Proctor, nor to the police. The loss is to the industry of motorized furnishings. The loss is that this engineering genius is not being employed to create a motorized love seat, couch, and sectional. Heck even a motorized ottoman would be an improvement over all these Rascal, and Rover, and whatever else these limited mobility people use to putt themselves around on. In Japan they invented the motorized unicycle. Now a segue is par for every security patrol. This is the proletariat's answer to the bourgeoisie! Fight the power!

Posted at 2:41AM on Nov 6th 2009 by Proctor&Gamble

5. Your post gave me more than one giggle. :-)

Posted at 3:51AM on Nov 6th 2009 by To Proctor&Gamble

6. A lot of the time when there are those big frenzied auction bids on eBay, it turns out that not all the bids are sincere and the seller never collects anyway. Anybody with a legitimate interest in the chair could have found the new auction and bid again.

Posted at 7:43AM on Nov 6th 2009 by Judy C.

7. Shame on you corporate greedy Lazy Boy a-holes. The money was going to charity! You were getting free advertising with this chair. BUT NOOOOOOOOO.......you had to yell "trademark infringement". Do you guys feel better now that the name "Lazy Boy" has been removed from the E-bay site. Now the police's fund is down $32,000.00. If Lazy Boy wants to repair this screw-up, they should at least contribute the difference (if not a bit more). The holiday season is coming up, help this police charity Lazy Boy.

Posted at 8:26AM on Nov 6th 2009 by Judy Z

8. The Alkie should have gotten half the money, they screwed the Alkie again, always happens.

Posted at 8:55AM on Nov 6th 2009 by Bill W

9. Your move, La-Z-Boy

Posted at 9:11AM on Nov 6th 2009 by #1 Rides the Short Bus

10. $10.099.98 TOO MUCH.

Posted at 9:34AM on Nov 6th 2009 by Troof

11. Do right and donate the difference, La Z Boy, or at least something substantial to show good sportsmanship.

Posted at 10:36AM on Nov 6th 2009 by SN00PY

12. hey harvey - you're a lawyer. explain this. since when can't you include the brand name of an item in the title of your "for sale" ad?????

Posted at 11:57AM on Nov 6th 2009 by sv

13. how 'bout the po-po donate some of the fine monies they accumulate to the tax payers. I mean what's the difference, they rip this guy off of his chair, or they rip the citizens off for court fees and fines. This guy should have taken the dui and sold the chair on his own. they will just use the money to sit around the donut shop waiting to give him another ticket.

Posted at 12:18PM on Nov 6th 2009 by macheeze27

14. Hey SV, they can't use the name La-Z-Boy to sell a custom made chair because it is not a La-Z-Boy product. La-Z-Boy do not make motorized chairs and I'm tipping don't want their name in the title alongside the word DWI.
Also to all those saying the company should make up the difference; the bids were fake. I know that because some of them were mine. eff the police!

Posted at 3:25PM on Nov 6th 2009 by Allen Ridak

15. THIS STORY IS SO DEAD and a page filler..what is it a slow news week..can you assign paps to George W and let us know what he and Dick C are up to? Oh guess not since that is really interesting and you couldn't track them if you tried

Posted at 3:29PM on Nov 6th 2009 by Tim J