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A woman who caught a kite released by U2 singer Bono at last Friday night's concert said she was not going to do a "Tana Umaga handbag" deal on it.
Claire Keam, a teacher at Papamoa's Taha Tai school, said she left the concert at Mt Smart stadium early with her husband to beat the masses while U2 were performing their encore song Kite.
"We were just walking out of the stadium during the last song when we saw it come near us ... I couldn't believe it.
"People were just saying 'that's the kite' and we jumped up and caught it. It had these huge helium balloons on it and we had to give a couple of them away because they were too big to fit in the car.
"The people we gave them to were pretty stoked too."
Mrs Keam has since put the kite on Trade Me - but laughed off suggestions she would sell it for personal profit like the handbag Tana Umaga used to wallop team mate Chris Masoe in an early-morning fracas at a Christchurch bar in May.
That was sold on the auction website for $22,750.
"I want to give all of it to Oxfam and don't want to do a Tana Umaga handbag thing on it and cash up," she said.
U2 have been vociferous in their support of the Make Poverty History campaign and lead singer Bono has called on countries throughout the world to pledge their support.
Bono was a nominee for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to eliminate poverty and rallying for the cause.
Mrs Keam said she had not been tempted to take the kite to the park.
Bidding on the kite was a long way off from the thousands paid for the handbag in the Tana Umaga incident with $445 the top offer yesterday afternoon.
The auction closes on Tuesday next week.
