Posted on 05/21/2008 4:09:57 PM PDT by PROCON
Videographer Tom Morgan placed an ad on Craigslist to drum up business - but ended up getting mugged and losing his livelihood.
Morgan, 22, was robbed at gunpoint of his wallet and $4,000 worth of equipment after showing up to what he thought would be a $200 job shooting a two-hour bachelorette party in Brooklyn.
"The only thing I saw was the gun," he said. "I had never been close to a gun before."
Business had been picking up for theVassar College graduate, who has been freelancing full time since December.
He had two jobs booked for the weekend when a woman named Angela called him last Thursday, asking if he could record her party on Sunday.
She said she was responding to an advertisement he posted on the classifieds Web site Craigslist.
"I usually meet with people two or three weeks in advance to get a deposit," he said. "I didn't have time to meet with her."
She agreed to pay him when he showed up at her Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, apartment with his equipment, but when "I knocked on the door, a middle-age man opened the door," he said. "He had no idea what I was talking about
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A MAN that graduated from Vassar?! That explains why “he” had never been near a gun before, IMO.
Welcome to the ghetto , pigeon .
I bet he’ll never take a job without checking out the “customer” again. Too bad he had to learn the hard way.
it’s been coed since the seventies, IIRC.
“I had never been close to a gun before.” Business had been picking up for theVassar College graduate,
I would say that was redundant .
At least the taxman steals a little less and without a gun.
My guess, former democrat, now a republican
There is some kind of poetic justice when it’s a liberal that gets mugged.
Oh the tax man has a gun. Trust me. When they conduct a raid they show up with firepower.
I never used a gun when I was an IRS Revenue Officer. The only ones who use guns are the Criminal Investigators, and they are real jerks. Trust me. I’m glad not to have worked for them these 15 years.
Sissy.
Well I suppose we’ll let you stay around on the free republic despite having been an IRS agent :-)
Typical lib who may now become a conservative!
BTW, your "Simulating submarine life at home had me ROFLOL!!
Too funny, thanks!
The guy graduated from Vassar , and has a brother who is a lawyer , but he can’t afford a new camera ??? Duh !
Clearly they don’t teach common sense at Vassar.
Oh, no, boss! Gun's still there! :-)
High crime black area. What a moron.
My guess is this idiot is another whitebread transplant from another part of the country who believes that "all people are good and decent." God, I wish these Skippies would go back to where they came from!
Nevertheless, I am a million times more upset at the scumbag who did this. There is a good reason why I "profile" my prospective clients when I advertise on Craigslist to sell something.
Thanks. I was a Revenue Officer — the collections guy — not a Revenue Agent — the auditor. And I hated the job and it literally drove me insane for years. It is not a job for a person with ADD to have.
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