MUGI – My Unique Gift Idea

Some guys are just lucky. They go to some concert, smush into one of the front rows where the rock star or rock startette seems able and willing to discard some piece of clothing – sunglasses, a sock, maybe even a jockstrap, a guitar pick (try to find that sort of thing – maybe the should change “needle in a haystack” to “discarded guitar pick at a sold-out concert) or, in this case, a bejeweled white glove worn by the glove wearer himself, Michael Jackson.
I don’t think one of his jockstraps would sell for that much anyway.

13 years ago, Jacko was in Australia as part of his HIStory tour and screened an Australian flick entitled “Ghosts” which MJ actually starred in, as freaky as that sounds. (Now everybody go to IMDB to check it out.) At the end of the movie, he tossed a glove to audience member Bill Hibble. Unfortunately, Bill has since died, (the glove was not implicated) but the glove that was thrown at him netted $50,000 at an Australian auction.

If the glove does not fit, you must acquit. Sad, Johnny Cochrane has died of late as well. Shouldn’t the glove be in the Rock and Roll hall of fame? And wouldn’t it be nice to know that simply by putting on an article of clothing, that article may then become worth $50,000? I wish I could do that sort of thing with my articles of clothing. Mine just depreciate and get nubby and such.

MELBOURNE, Australia — A bejeweled white glove Michael Jackson tossed to an Australian fan more than a decade ago sold at auction Sunday for $48,400, almost twice the estimated selling price.
Warwick Stone, a buyer for the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, beat out five other bidders for the late King of Pop’s glove, said Charlotte Stanes, spokeswoman for the Melbourne auction house Bonhams and Goodman.
“We are very happy with the result,” Stanes said. “It’s the first glove we know about in Australia.”
Bonhams and Goodman said it was the first auction of a Michael Jackson glove since his death on June 25 this year at age 50.

Jackson visited Australia in 1996 as part of his HIStory world tour. While in Sydney, he attended the Australian premiere for the film “Ghosts,” in which he had a starring role. At the end of the screening, he tossed the glove at audience member Bill Hibble, who has since died, said national head of collectables Giles Moon.