PORTLAND, OR—Local time traveling couple Melvin and Aliza Roberts make headlines again after posting Adolf Hitler on their website, BuyThePast.com.
“We were just tired of the same old same old ‘go back in time and kill Hitler’ routine,” says Aliza Roberts. “So we thought, why don’t we just capture him and sell him into slavery or something?”
The couple has him posted for $1000, a price which local slavery economics expert Budd Sterling says is “very enthusiastic.” He “[doesn’t] expect the couple to get more than two $250” and says “if they’re interested in making a trade for [his] vintage Babe Ruth baseball bat” to let him know.
However, this isn’t the first time the couple has made headlines for one of their postings. Last September they made headlines for posting the severed ear of Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. “It mostly started as a joint hobby to put a little more passion into our marriage,” says Melvin Roberts. “We started with little things like one of Edison’s prototypes of the lightbulb to larger things like severed ears and now, Adolf Hitler.”
As for their next heist, the couple has considered the first draft of the Constitution or the Ark of the Covenant. “But it’s really up in the air,” the couple laughed.