Man spends $4000 at public sale to purchase and destroy Taylor Swift-signed guitar
A person has spent USD $4000 at an public sale to purchase a guitar signed by Taylor Swift, solely to destroy it with a hammer seconds later.
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The public sale happened at an occasion referred to as the Ellis County Wild Sport Dinner held outdoors Dallas, Texas on Sunday evening. Throughout the occasion, an Eras Tour-themed guitar that was signed by Taylor Swift was put up for public sale.
An unidentified aged man bought the guitar for $4000 earlier than taking a hammer to it nearly instantly, hitting it a number of instances earlier than seemingly turning to smash the instrument on the bottom earlier than being stopped by the public sale’s host. All through the smashing, the person laughed as he was cheered on by an viewers.
Watch the clip beneath.
A person destroyed a signed Taylor Swift guitar after paying $4000 on the public sale
— Dexerto (@Dexerto) September 30, 2024
The clip started going viral on social media final evening (September 30), with folks speculating that it was a transfer pushed by Taylor Swift’s latest endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris as the following President of america.
TMZ has since seemingly confirmed with the occasion that the Swift-signed guitar had been donated to the public sale earlier than Swift’s endorsement of Harris, and that the guitar was not meant to be destroyed.
The singer final month introduced her endorsement for Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential candidacy, championing her as “a steady-handed, gifted chief”. Swift added: “She fights for the rights and causes I imagine want a warrior to champion them… I imagine we will accomplish a lot extra on this nation if we’re led by calm and never chaos.”
Swift wrapped up the UK and European leg of her Eras Tour in August with 5 last dates at Wembley Stadium. To commemorate, the stadium gifted her together with her personal personalised Wembley guitar. It has additionally been instructed that Swift ought to be awarded the London Freedom of the Metropolis for her record-breaking residency.
She is subsequent resulting from re-commence the ultimate stretch of her ongoing tour in Miami’s Onerous Rock Stadium on October 18, earlier than ending the mammoth ‘Eras Tour’ run in Vancouver, Canada in early December.