Jersey man set to make some bread off a piece of toast

NEWTON, N.J. - A local man has made the case of runaway Georgia bride Jennifer Wilbanks the toast of eBay.

Perry Lonzello, 48, of Newton, says he carved a rudimentary drawing of Wilbanks on a piece of toasted Wonder Bread and posted it on eBay on a whim.

"I just carved it on there real quick and put it on there as a joke," Lonzello told the Daily Record of Parsippany for Friday's newspapers.

As of about noon Friday, 102 bids had been made on the toast, which was selling for $600 on the auction Web site. Bidding closes Sunday.

The toast is still a long way from equaling the grilled cheese sandwich with an image of the Virgin Mary that sold for $28,000 on eBay in 2004.

San Jose, Calif.-based eBay says it has no problem with any items sold on its site, as long as they're legal.

Wilbanks' three-day disappearance last week, shortly before her scheduled 600-guest wedding, sparked a nationwide search, with family and friends afraid she was the victim of foul play.

It turned out that Wilbanks had run away on her own, fleeing by bus to Los Vegas and eventually to Albuquerque, N.M.