The wise follower of the force asked Han Solo, "who is more foolish, the fool or the one who follows him?" That's what I'm asking right now.
Two geniuses were arrested on a tip for selling "eco-friendly" laptops in the parking lot of a hotel. How eco-friendly were they? They didn't use any electricity at all and were made from completely bio-degradeable materials. The secret? they were painted blocks of wood in bubble wrap. The budding entrepreneurs threw in some bonus cell phone chargers too. Just to make it more plausible. Brilliant!
My point: if you see some dude selling merchandise in a parking lot, chances are it's either 1) stolen, 2) fake, 3) not what it's represented to be. These two crooks set up a real decoy laptop and sold the bubble-wrapped wood blocks for $799.99 a piece. You heard right! $800 for a chunk of painted wood. Apparently a few dupes bought these things before the police were tipped. My oh my...
PT Barnum was right... there is a sucker born every minute. And thanks to the over-abundance of rubes, we've got scams-a-plenty to rope 'em in. It astounds me that there is a daily regurgitation of idiots out there who try to either get something for nothing, or give nothing for something. I remember as a young policemen taking a report for a kid getting scammed out of $1200 from a dude who used the old- newspaper in a bandanna trick.
C'mon, people. Think!
By the way, I'm selling my UFO, autographed by Big Foot and Elvis on E-Bay... bid often.
Chip Grefski
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