The grassy knoll fence

If you collect items under the category politics>conspiracy>memorabilia>homes and gardens, then Lelands, an auction site focused on memorabilia, has just the item for you.

They are selling the fence from the grassy knoll that CIA operatives/Mafia hitmen/Fidel Castro/absolutely nobody (delete as appropriate) hid behind when they assassinated/did not assassinate JFK.

With a quote that will surely be among the first entries into any dictionary of crap superlatives*, a Lelands director calls it 'probably the most famous fence in the world'.

I'm sure, if we put our minds to it, we could think of many more famous bits of fence. After all, this fence is only famous by association - it's the grassy knoll that gets all the attention. The fence is somewhat by the by. In fact, a  fence near a knoll behind which assassins may or may not have once lurked isn't really all that famous.

A desperate attempt to 'big up' the fence (as I believe the young people say), leads to this lovely paragraph of hack journalism:

Some of the conspiracy theories that linger more than 40 years after the assassination involve the fence. Some films show people rushing toward the fence in pursuit of a second gunman, according to one theory

I would suggest the fence outside the White House is more famous. Or the Berlin Wall, if you want to stretch the definition of a fence.

I digress.

Bids for this wholly unremarkable piece of fence are expected to reach thousands of pounds. Bidders (assuming Golden Palace doesn't snaffle it) are expected to be ardent JFK conspiracists, with arguably more money than sense.

*There is, as far as I know, no Dictionary of Crap Superlatives. I would be happy to write one, though. It would be the most stunning dictionary of unimpressive superlatives that the world had ever seen.