The wedding dress is no longer on eBay but the story is here:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001915316_brodeur29m.html
I wouldn't be surprised if there was more than some fiction in this pen selling dude's story too. Seems like a copycat to me.
Who knows? Certainly not you. Maybe it would have been the difference between life and death. Maybe not.
Wear your helmet folks.
I have seen what happens to a helmet when a 300lb rock hits it