Craigslist scam ends with gun to head

nydailynews.com ^ | May 21, 2008 | ETHAN ROUEN

[2ndDivisionVet]

A MAN that graduated from Vassar?! That explains why “he” had never been near a gun before, IMO.

[kbennkc]

Welcome to the ghetto , pigeon .

[kms61]

I bet he’ll never take a job without checking out the “customer” again. Too bad he had to learn the hard way.

[kms61]

it’s been coed since the seventies, IIRC.

[Walkingfeather]

“I had never been close to a gun before.” Business had been picking up for theVassar College graduate,

I would say that was redundant .

[tflabo]

Perhaps he also got converted from liberalism to conservatism. Steal from the productive and transfer to the lazy.

At least the taxman steals a little less and without a gun.

[SF Republican]

My guess, former democrat, now a republican

[editor-surveyor]

There is some kind of poetic justice when it’s a liberal that gets mugged.

[festus]

Oh the tax man has a gun. Trust me. When they conduct a raid they show up with firepower.

[GAB-1955]

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.

[Doohickey]

"I had never been close to a gun before."

Sissy.

[festus]

Well I suppose we’ll let you stay around on the free republic despite having been an IRS agent :-)

[PROCON]

Sissy

Typical lib who may now become a conservative!

BTW, your "Simulating submarine life at home had me ROFLOL!!

Too funny, thanks!

[sushiman]

The guy graduated from Vassar , and has a brother who is a lawyer , but he can’t afford a new camera ??? Duh !

[GovernmentShrinker]

Clearly they don’t teach common sense at Vassar.

[BradyLS]

At least the taxman steals a little less and without a gun.

Oh, no, boss! Gun's still there! :-)

[montag813]

She agreed to pay him when he showed up at her Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, apartment with his equipment,

High crime black area. What a moron.

[Clemenza]

I wouldn't say that. It has seen considerable gentrification over the past 15 years. Its not Park Slope, but it aint Bed Stuy either.

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.

[GAB-1955]

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.