Pricey bike, but money well spent; WMI pays $800,100 for 'Tonight Show' motorcycle.(Waste Management Inc.)
Waste News, February, 2005 by Johnson, Jim
Byline: Jim Johnson Waste Management Inc. employees are used to being on the ground and helping clean up after disaster strikes. But when the Indian Ocean tsunami hit in December, there was no way they could roll out their trucks to help with the overseas devastation. So Waste Management did the next best thing.
The company bought a motorcycle. But not just any motorcycle. Waste Management CEO David Steiner, on behalf of the company, was the winning bidder for a celebrity-autographed Harley-Davidson bike auctioned off by Jay Leno on "The Tonight Show'' to raise money to benefit tsunami victims. The winning bid for the $22,000 motorcycle was $800,100. "Any time there's a disaster, we're the first people on the scene,'' Steiner...
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