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Bureaucrats get EBay fever Suzanne Herel, February 28, 2003 That pocketknife you surrendered to airport security screeners might now be tucked away in someone else's pocket -- someone who bought it on EBay. Under the handle CaliforniaGold2000, the state is using the Internet auction house to convert scores of confiscated items to cash. So far, $16,281 has been made selling objects taken from passengers at Oakland and Sacramento airports -- the only ones in Northern California to participate in the state program. Among the oddest items confiscated and sold were at least three circular saws, hatchets, curtain rods and a little girl's baton. Also sold: 5,364 pocketknives, 350 pounds of scissors, 594 corkscrews and 309 leatherman tools. In cash-strapped, tech-savvy California, someone in the state's surplus property program thought up the idea of selling the things on EBay. California may be the only state in the country that has employed EBay for the purpose...
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