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No joke: Oven door passed off as flat-screen TV in scam
The South Bend Tribune ^ | April 1, 2006 | ALICIA GALLEGOS

Posted on 04/02/2006 7:37:38 AM PDT by DJ Taylor

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To: pax_et_bonum

Laugh!

Anyone that buys what they HAVE to assume is stolen merchandise gets what they deserve.


21 posted on 04/02/2006 7:49:02 AM PDT by Flyer (Preserve American Culture)
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To: DJ Taylor
If its too good to be true it usually is... its the rare bargain that's actually as good as it appears.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

22 posted on 04/02/2006 7:49:20 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: DJ Taylor

Adding insult to injury, the oven door was that puke-green color popular during the 70's.


23 posted on 04/02/2006 7:49:31 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: P.O.E.

LOL


24 posted on 04/02/2006 7:49:39 AM PDT by jla
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To: DJ Taylor

Flat-screen TV included, but it only gets The Food Channel.

25 posted on 04/02/2006 7:49:42 AM PDT by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Republicam)
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To: DJ Taylor

Why wasn't this lady charged with "Conspiracy to recieve stolen property", or some such?


26 posted on 04/02/2006 7:49:50 AM PDT by patton (Once you steal a firetruck, there's really not much else you can do except go for a joyride.)
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To: DJ Taylor

I wonder if her reception was good?

The Food Channel and cooking shows probably came in real well.

My Frigidaire "snowboard" works pretty good, although it's a little big, heavy and square for a snowboard.


27 posted on 04/02/2006 7:49:56 AM PDT by garyhope (Simplicity is best in everything)
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To: robertpaulsen

I need to get a new one. Mine is the only one in the house that doesn't work right. I can leave the other tvs on all day. This one though.... Every time I get on FR and forget about it being on , the darn thing starts smelling and smoking.


28 posted on 04/02/2006 7:51:00 AM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: DJ Taylor

Hmmmm...an HDTV in an oven door...this could work.

29 posted on 04/02/2006 7:53:20 AM PDT by Fintan (Hey, you can't make this stuff up.)
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To: CindyDawg

Mine only works around dinner time...


30 posted on 04/02/2006 7:53:32 AM PDT by just me
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To: Flyer

For 300 dollars, wouldn't you make sure it works first? And then to file a report.........


31 posted on 04/02/2006 7:53:56 AM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: DJ Taylor
Something similar actually happened to me back in 1972.

An african american male called me over to his car in a busy mall parking lot...opened his trunk and showed me a brand new portable color television...all wrapped straight from the factory.

We haggled on the price and I "stole" it for $85.

Got home all excited, and unwrapped it.

It was a old B&W with all dials missing and taken right off the junk pile.

I was really angry...for about 30 seconds and then laughed.

$85 was a cheap price never having to fall for anything like that again.

32 posted on 04/02/2006 7:55:22 AM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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To: DJ Taylor

I didn't know Magic Chef made TV's!


33 posted on 04/02/2006 7:56:09 AM PDT by 6SJ7
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34 posted on 04/02/2006 7:57:17 AM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: DJ Taylor
There's only one thing to say to the Vic

35 posted on 04/02/2006 7:58:13 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: K4Harty
high volume

:-P back atcha

I also have access to the Dungeon Castrations and Testicle Replacements ping list and the Naked, Oily Man With Nunchucks ping list, in case you're interested.

:-)

36 posted on 04/02/2006 7:59:09 AM PDT by pax_et_bonum
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To: DJ Taylor

This news is great too, but have you ever seen the news about a flying frozen sausage that broke a driver's nose?


37 posted on 04/02/2006 7:59:18 AM PDT by Wiz
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To: garyhope

I actually responded to one of those once. At the time, I wasn't living too far from Switzerland so I wrote back that the Swiss needed a minimum of $10,000 to open an account of that type and that I would be willing to come up with half. If he'd send me a money-order for the other half, I would handle all of the Swiss banking transactions for him.

Funny that I never heard back from him.


38 posted on 04/02/2006 8:03:21 AM PDT by Philistone (Turning lead into gold...)
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To: 1rudeboy

Oh, you mean Avocado Green. She should have specified Harvest Gold, I did.


39 posted on 04/02/2006 8:04:44 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: pax_et_bonum
That was a great morning laugh for me. It was an even louder laugh becuase I remember the Dungeon castration, but not the testicle replacement. I'm still laughing every time I read the phrase "Naked, oily man with nunchucks ping list"...

Thanks for the laugh.

40 posted on 04/02/2006 8:04:45 AM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (My Pug is On Her War Footing)
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