Spurred by Michael Phelp's bong+residue being pulled from eBay, Wired's got a piece today looking at other items that have been pulled for violating terms of use (of eBay, not the bong). Here's one that registered with my pre-dawn humorometer:

A Benton, Illinois, woman put up her 4- and 8-year-old daughters for auction In 2007. The 31-year-old woman, who suffers from depression, told a local television station she was trying to rent them out for two days so she could get some rest. EBay yanked the auction because human trafficking is illegal.

These must be two ultra-raucous kids if she couldn't farm them out to friends or family for a weekend. No wonder the poor woman's depressed. i'm not sure if eBay's rationale works: is it trafficking when the parent plans to take the kids back? Let's hope someone stepped in to help her out, lest she really lose it and use a gun to solve her babysitting issues, in which case i can easily imagine an industrious relative suing eBay for driving her to extremes.