Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 22, 2019

’Better read the HOA rules about craters.

Sivan Aurez

They saw that guy coming.

I’ll pass on buying an acre of land on one of those three places. Why should I buy land if I can’t live on the land with my snake Jewel?

They didn’t say which moon, and there are a lot of them in the solar system.

It has been a month since Suarez bought that cheese. Is he still using it, but on special occasions?

Hey! Who cut the cheese? Ivan? That’s terrible…

buy an acre from whom?

“If I promised you the moon right now, would you believe it?—” Alan Parsons Project.

But it’s not worth it because aliens encroach that land.

I recall when I was a youngster I sent-in three boxtops of Quaker Oats and I got a deed for one square inch of the moon.

Heck, for $25, I can have a star named after me!

And then Suarez noisily ate all 5.78 pounds in front of all the losing bidders at the auction, commenting in a sing-song voice on how good it was and how it was too bad there wasn’t enough to share.

Cheese scam, property scam and a scamming crab

Back in the ’50s I bought (I think) 1 square inch of the moon for 25 or 50 cents. It was through a cereal company and involved several boxtops. I may still have the deed around somewhere. As I said, it was the ’50s and the details are fuzzy now. Maybe someone else can fill in the blanks…

A treaty was signed by every country in 1969 where no country can own a part of the moon.

For details on the cheese, including the original photo which was “reproduced” above, click here:https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/commercial/2019/6/most-expensive-cheese-sold-at-auction-578083

For approximately 29$ you can be scammed out of approximately 29$ by a guy who pretends to have the right to sell you something he doesn’t own. It’s a very expensive sheet of bad quality A4 paper printed by a cheap old printer low on toner. If you’re really interested in having a deed for one acre of other world’s land, call me and I’ll be more than willing to take you for 20$ and throw an extra acre to sweeten the deal :D

Well, pom-pom crabs does seem more appropriate.

Sure, at $29 an acre, the land is cheap, but the moving expenses will ruin you.

I wonder what made that particular cheese so expensive?

The first question that came to mind on buying extraterrestrial land was, “from whom?”. The second was “how did they come up with a $29 price tag?”.

my word, i have read Ripley’s for over 65 years. my how time flies when you are having fun !!

Cheeze, Señor Suarez, that’s a lot to pay!

Anyone else remember when a certain cereal had a deed to one square inch of Alaska?

You don’t expect anyone so crabby to be leading a cheer.

“Say hello to my little friends!”

No cheese is worth that much!!

I’m pretty sure it’s illegal to try and claim ownership of any part of the moon, at least for governments, but I’m damn sure if a government can’t own any of the moon they aren’t gonna let some piss-ant company do it.

All that money and I bet it still smells like old gym socks…

The price is right, but collecting rent is a bi*ch…

when I was in the Navy, I traded a Greek gentleman 4 of our ship’s t-shirts for a kilo of fresh feta cheese…I think I got the better deal (I gave it to the cooks so everyone got some) oh and I spoke no Greek, and he spoke no English, French or Spanish

Was the cheese purchase an auction for charity? I mean in Nov 2018 during Australian cheery season, the first box of cherries sold for $100,000.

I have called several surveying companies, but nobody seems to want to go mark off my outer space property. My next call will be to a lawyer to represent the sea anemones, who have not agreed to be used arbitrarily as pom-poms by other sea creatures, no matter how “crabby” they may be!

An acre of a massive black hole is the genuine bargain!

To which governing body do you have to pay property tax for land owned on Venus, Mars, or Earth’s Moon?