8 Stupid Things People Try to Get Away With (and some people actually fall for)
OK, sometimes you have to say to yourself “Are you kidding me?” These are 8 of those times.
“Cooking in HD” Someone actually (allegedly) shrinkwrapped old oven doors and was selling them as flat widscreen TVs. OH! and check out his floor tiles…. I mean laptops!
7) “MOMMY! can I have an X-Game 360 AND a PowerStation 3?” The X-Game 360 and the PowerStation 3 have swept the hearts and souls of all the good little children of Mexico. That is if you are OK with actually buying an 8Bit system (and a knockoff of that to boot). Well for only 299 each why not get both? Oh, did I mention that was in Pesos?…… (aprox 26.90 USD)
6) “If I just send money to this Iowa Congressman, I’ll be rich!” I am pretty sure just about all of us have seen those emails about the “Nigerian prince who needs us to cash a check for him”. I would hope that everyone I would want to associate with would have the brains not to fall for this scam. Well then, I obviously do not know the former Iowa Congressman, Ed Mezvinsky. He not only “became the victim of “just about every different kind of African-based scam we’ve ever seen,” federal prosecutor Bob Zauzmer told. But then, says Zauzmer, Mezvinsky began to steal from clients and even his own mother-in-law to raise the money to try yet another scheme.” BTW, he should be out of jail by November 2008. What a piece of work…………
5) “Dead? Again?” Faking your death to avoid traffic charges? And she got away with it too, until she got pulled over again later and reportedly told the officer “But officer, I’m supposed to be dead. Whoops.”. If that was not enough, there was even a guy who did this to get out of his Verizon Wireless contract.
4) “Drugs flying high as a rocket” A 4 foot rocket hidden in the trunk of your car that is meant to “eject” your contraband in the event of you getting pulled over? Oh My God! Leave it to someone on Meth to also think that cops would be stupid enough not to notice a 4ft missle beeing shot out of the back of your car. This was really bad idea, even if it had worked, but they forgot to plug it in.
3) “Forget mobile, this is door to door mammography” I am pretty sure that we have all heard this one, and some have you have even thought about it. Old man with black bag offering door to door breast exams. Let’s face it, if a total stranger gropes you on the train, you pretty much know that they are not a doctor doing a public service. What is the difference between that, and if they knock on your home door first? But, hey! They do not always have to come to you. You can actually go right to their storage shed for a full exam.
2) “But what happens if Nessie eats me and I can’t finish the race?” Yes you heard that right. They are holding a duathlon in Scotland and the organizers have taken out a 1 Million Pound (1.97 Mill USD) insurance policy that “would pay out should “Nessie” emerge from the murky depths of the vast watercourse and/or attack one of the competitors.” Regardless if Nessie is real or not, can you also get “Bigfoot insurance” when you go camping?
1) “Cop, burger, and some really old chicken” A guy claiming to be a police office is going into fast food restautants demanding a refund on his food because he found a hair in it. Dubbed the “burger bandet”, he has hit McDonalds, Wendy’s, Burger King, and Kentucky Fried Chicken, all in the small town of Middlefield, Ohio. He has no uniform, gun or badge, but in all fairness in the Wendy’s he did have on a t-shirt that said “Cleveland Heights Academy Police School”. He would find discarded food and take it inside and make his claim. OK he has only gotten away with $16.17 worth of goods, but I also think he took a little of the employees’ pride with him too.
These are my opinions. If you don’t like them get your own and make them known.
-Cam