Ebay rocket launcher sale stopped

A british bloke who tried to flog a deactivated Soviet FROG missile on Ebay has fallen foul of one of the auction site's more bizarre rules.

Richard Moore, from Cambridgeshire, was told to remove the missile offer, because he broke eBay regulations. According to Reuters, it was not the fact that he was selling a missile which could have once been used to deliver a weapon of mass destruction that broke the rules.

Ebay was miffed that he had chosen to sell the missile in the same auction as its fully functional rocket launcher. Ebay said that the missile should have appeared as a separate item. This is because the auctioneer bans the sale of any ammunition, replica guns or firearms on its sites. If missile and launcher were put together they become a complete 'weapon' said Ebay.