Some people are SOOOOOOoooooooo gullible, they even believe "gullible" isn't even in the dictionary!! The level of STUPIDITY of some people STILL amazes me!!! You have to wonder if they would have survived if they didn't have someone wiping their ass until they almost graduated high school!
Woman Duped Into Buying Wooden iPad Police: Wooden Block Painted Black, Decorated With Apple Logo
POSTED: 10:27 am PDT August 31, 2011
UPDATED: 10:35 am PDT August 31, 2011
A South Carolina woman told police she was scammed into buying an Apple iPad made of wood by two men in a McDonald's parking lot.
According to a police report obtained by the Smoking Gun, 22-year-old Ashley Mcdowell claimed she was buying food at the restaurant when the men approached her. They claimed to have bought iPads in bulk and were selling them for $300.
Retail price for the gadgets normally begins at $499.
Mcdowell told the men she only had $180 and they went for the deal, and she was given a FedEx box with the assumed iPad inside.
On the drive home, Mcdowell discovered "a piece of wood painted black with an Apple logo" in the box and called police, the report stated.
The fake iPad came complete with a Best Buy price tag and pasted-on app icons.
The Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office is searching for the two men.
POLITICIANS & DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
That sort of thing used to be common here, and probably still are. Used to be in the classified ads in the papers, now I guess it's on the net. I don't know about the US laws, but around here they give people some sort of merchandize for legal reasons. As long as the buyer got something, it's hard to prove fraud. So they'll sell you a cheap "watch" with painted on hands, a "bug zapper" that consists of two pieces of wood, or an ipod made of wood. As long as they don't claim something that's untrue, it's no false advertising and no fraud. They never claimed the watch actually worked or that the "bug zapper" was electric. And they only said the ipod would look good on your nightstand, not that it actually worked...
My personal favorite was a guy that bought wholesale algae meant for animal feed in a 50lbs sack, repackaged it into pound bags and sold it as weight loss diet. He couldn't be prosecuted because no one could prove that it actually didn't help people loose weight. And he never gave any promises of how much weight the buyer would loose.
Caveat emptor...
"Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid."
John Wayne
Read a story years ago about a guy in NYC who saw Sumdood selling telephones on the street. Some of the phones were without boxes, just wrapped in plastic, other phones (same models) were in boxes. Being a "smart" New Yorker, he bought one of the ones in the box. When he got home he found a brick in the box.
Uh-oh!
When my son graduated this past July I got him an iPad as a gift. It had not arrived by graduation day so I made one out of cardboard. I printed out a picture of the front from the internet, and glued some foil on the back with the "Apple" etched with a pencil.
No one told me it was illegal!
If time, chance and random process can produce a platypus why not an ammo tree?
