A man suffering from Tourette’s Syndrome accidentally walked into an auction house this week, and unintentionally bought several items. Timothy Bauer, a Sioux Falls, SD, truck driver, walked into Sampson’s Auction Sales on the city’s east side. Suddenly realizing he was in the wrong place, Bauer nervously began spewing a series of vocal tics, which were misconstrued by the auctioneers as bids. Before he could make it out the door Bauer inadvertently bought two brass table lamps, a snowmobile trailer, and a crate of ball-peen hammers.

“I thought I was in a…SHIT!…in a hardware store,” said the confused Bauer. “All of a sudden these auction guys were pointing at me and telling me I just bought some crap. SLUT! WHORE BITCH! I didn’t mean to buy that stuff, but now I owe them…JERKOFF! JERKOFF! BIG DADDY! YEAH!…I owe them more than a thousand dollars!”

Management at Sampson’s has been sympathetic, offering Bauer a no-interest, one-year payment plan for the merchandise.