Someone paid way too much for an old Toronto street sign

$3,210

—The winning bid for a decommissioned Yonge Street sign bearing Rob Ford’s autograph, scrawled in what appears to be gold Sharpie. It’s by far the most extravagant purchase (so far) in the city’s online street-sign auction, which will continue happening in waves over the course of the next year (over 1000 signs will eventually hit the virtual block). By the time it’s all over, the person who dropped three grand on this particular piece of scrap metal will probably be feeling kind of silly.