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Don't buy electronic goods from the back of a car!

eyelinerprincess
eyelinerprincess Posts: 4,679 Forumite
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in Praise, vent & warnings
I would have thought that was obvious advice, but still people are falling for it:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3393471.html
"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

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  • Meepster
    Meepster Posts: 5,955 Forumite
    And don't eat yellow snow...
    If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands

  • vikingaero
    vikingaero Posts: 10,921 Forumite
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    Try pouring lemon cordial on snow. Tastes great! :D

    Usual buy a laptop, end up with a laptop bag with 2 bottles of water in it stuff.
    The man without a signature.
  • tomwakefield
    tomwakefield Posts: 8,036 Forumite
    Police say they are hunting for three British men as witnesses said they spoke with spoke perfect English and were driving a British registered car.
    More likely to be foreign then :D
    Competition wins: Where's Wally Goody Bag, Club badge branded football, Nivea for Men Goody Bag
  • hollydays
    hollydays Posts: 19,812 Forumite
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    A hoard of ipods-is that the collective term?
  • Brooker_Dave
    Brooker_Dave Posts: 5,196 Forumite
    tomwakefield wrote: »
    More likely to be foreign then :D

    "Police say they are hunting for three British men as witnesses said they spoke with spoke perfect English and were driving a British registered car"

    Perfect English with an Irish accent, and drove a (stolen) near brand new british registered transit van with a towbar?

    (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=!!!!!)
    "Love you Dave Brooker! x"

    "i sent a letter headded sales of god act 1979"
  • dealer_wins
    dealer_wins Posts: 7,334 Forumite
    I cant say I have much sympathy either. These people were prepared to buy stolen goods but they got stolen from. Now they know how people who have heir Ipods stolen feel like.
  • SpammyTheSpammer
    SpammyTheSpammer Posts: 1,773 Forumite
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    IF they were Jersey Royals
    (Yum Yum Yum!)
    I am a cow so cannot speak Bullshine but I do recognise its smell when I come upon it.
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