Don't Sell People on eBay

A 10-year-old British girl put her grandmother up for sale on eBay reports the U.K.'s Mail Online.

eBay axed the online auction, but only after bidding breached the £20,000 mark.

The news media has been treating this whole event as a hilarious joke, but I'm not sold.  Here is the girl, Zoe Pemberton (Wasn't that one of the kids in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?), in her own words:

"She was annoying me. She was moaning at me. I was on the laptop and suddenly thought I'd put her on eBay."

Um… Ha??

That doesn't sound like a young girl playing a joke: That's sounds like a bratty kid trying to unload her grandmother on eBay.

What's funny about this?  Partaking in the illegal activity of human trafficking?  The possibility of selling a grandparent into a life of servitude or geriatric sexual slavery?  Breaking eBay's terms of service?

The Mail must have had a laugh riot when the U.S. Department of State placed the Thai Government in Tier 2 of their 2007 Trafficking in Persons Report for not fully complying with the Trafficking Victims Protection Act’s minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking.

The government of Thailand later declared these practices to be a "joke."  LOL!