30 pieces of silver on E-bay

Clearly, the dude offering a consecrated host on E-bay is ignorant and arrogant to the extreme. (Not that God would hold that against him, of course: as Paul said, "because I did not know what I was doing in my unbelief, I have been treated mercifully.") Actually, I am more concerned about that guy's friends. I mean, you think he was at a Papal Mass alone? Is it possible that there were no Catholics with him on that occasion? Did they not have the guts--or, more critically, the faith--to let E-bay dude know that what he was doing was, at the very least, unacceptable? Did they try asking him for the host so as to consume it? It is not entirely unheard of for the Eucharist to end up in the hands of tourists who do now know what they are doing.
I heard of a situation in Rome where a Japanese tourist who had followed the example of those at the Mass to go up in the communion line was then confronted by an Italian who blocked the way and gestured that it was to be consumed on the spot. I had an experience myself at Chicago's Holy Name Cathedral: a young woman, about 19 or 20, who clearly was just following the crowd (and, it turned out, her Dad), slouched toward an extraordinary minister of Communion. She didn't even put her hands forward in the usual gesture of receiving, but stood there a minute, and then opened her left hand. The minister placed the Eucharist in the girl's hand, and the girl moved on, depositing the Blessed Sacrament in her pocket. I practically fell across the many sets of knees between my place and the side aisle as I scrambled to the meet the girl. "Did you just put the Eucharist in your pocket?" I asked. She was embarrassed, but tried to indicate that it was nothing; she was just trying to make her Dad happy. "Just give it to me," I told her. Her Dad came over and I gave him a glance that told him he needed to move on. (Poor Dad didn't need to know what was going on.) The girl dug in her pocket and came out with gum, a ticket of some sort, and--on the second attempt--Jesus, whom I received into my hands. "Next time, just don't come up in the Communion line. Your Dad will be happy enough that you came to Mass." I gave her a kind of blessing and let her go. Then I received a second communion.
Now, I rather doubt that E-bay would permit that a Torah scroll be put up for sale, but in the end this is not about E-bay. It comes down on one hand to our right as Catholics to be respected in our relgious beliefs and practices by those who do not share them. (E-bay dude was quick, suspiciously quick, to take refute in his not being Catholic, as if that exonerated him from the human obligation of reverence for others in what they hold sacred.) And on the other hand, it comes down to us Catholics having the faith and the guts to hold people to intervene when such obvious sacrileges take place.