Posted on 07/11/2012 7:24:57 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
In another age, loaning your car to complete strangers and telling them to just bring it back the next day would have had a happy ending. Doing it recently at the Hooters restaurant in Fairfax City? Not so much
A 46-year-old Burke man reported to police that he was inside the Hooters on Route 50 on a Saturday evening last month when a couple came in and asked him for directions. The couple further revealed the heartbreaking development that they were on their way to a wedding when their vehicle broke down, Fairfax City Sgt. Joe Johnson said.
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I hope he enjoyed the wings and beer.
They’re usually satisfied if you just give them twenty bucks for a cab.
Mouth breather. He is one.
I recently ran to a store in the next city. ‘Bout an hour drive each way. Got home around 10 and, at the intersection in front of our home, got flagged down by a young lady who said she had ran out of gas and needed to get back to Mentor OH (We’re in Cleveland OH).
Felt bad for her, but I didn’t have any cash on me. Since I grew up about 20 minutes from Mentor, I knew the area and knew it was a fair drive. She was gone by the time I got settled in as I was considering running to the ATM, or at least letting her have what was in the lawnmower gas can.
Turns out she was out in the intersection the next night, and the next day. My wife observed her getting into a few cars. Turns out she had a little “side business” that probably included the oldest profession.
My wife finally told her to get out of our neighborhood or her next visitor would be the police. Seen her around since, but not close to our house.
I don’t help out anyone anymore. I’ve heard just about every sob story, and they always turn out to be a scam if you drive back and check up on the scammmer. It’s sad really - I’d be quite willing to help out someone in need, but the scammers are so convincing that you can’t tell who’s in need and who’s trying to get money for drugs.
ummm.... Mentor, Ohio? neo, is she a friend of your’s....?
i happened to be directly across the street from this Hooters yesterday, having my oil changed at the Toyota dealership. cannot believe that anyone would be so gullible in this day and age as to do this.
You out that way Neo?
I grew up in Chardon. Mentor was the closest spot back then to go on Friday/Saturday night if you wanted to do anything besides cow-tipping. Chardon was still a largely rural town in the 80s, not the yuppiplex it is today.
You run across the street for an oil change when you have a break in your shift?
I have known many men who can’t think clearly in the presence of scantily clad women. I don’t know this fool, but............
Just a “redistribution of wealth.” Occupiers should love this story.
Well that is my neck of the woods but no, I’ve never met the person in question. Sounds like she has trouble making it out of Cleveland.
Ha Ha! I hope that the car donor was a lefty Obamabot!
I used to fall for the stories myself. Once I was leaving my church after a deacons meeting and there at the door was a woman who claimed she needed money to get the bus home, since she lived in a town some 15 miles away. So I gave her a few dollars.
About two weeks later, the same woman approached me near the church with a slightly different tale. It was only then it dawned on me that she was probably a drug addict.
I’m a lot less helpful now; a little jaded, actually.
I was approached by a woman at the gas station a few weeks ago. She was begging for money to buy some gas. (I forget what her hard luck story was — something ridiculous like needing the money to go visit her sick kid in the hospital). Anyway, I’m driving a 5 yr old econo-car and she’s driving a practically brand new custom pickup truck. I told her I couldn’t help her and drove off. She sure had the sad face thing down pat though.
I have known many men who can’t think clearly in the presence of scantily clad women. I don’t know this fool, but............
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Well, this fool was more than likely mesmersized by the ‘scantily clad maidens in his presence’.
While I can see him giving his wheels to one of the “SCM’s”, giving it to ‘complete strangers’ is quite idiotic.
One must wonder how long this ‘couple’ worked the fool and how much it cost him to be relieved of his car.
Further proof that the tests to allow one on the road definitely are not stringent enough, at least we may have removed another texting fool (he definitely fits the profile) from the highways and byways.
It's a scammer's take on begging. Just last week a guy approached me at 4th and South, Philly. He was opening his wallet as explaining that he needed "$5.80" for a ticked for the train to get home.
Do I look like a tourist? I thought.
I politely turned him away and later on saw him a few blocks away, pulling the same theatrics on a couple.
I have known many men who can’t think clearly in the presence of scantily clad women. I don’t know this fool, but............
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Well, this fool was more than likely mesmersized by the ‘scantily clad maidens in his presence’.
While I can see him giving his wheels to one of the “SCM’s”, giving it to ‘complete strangers’ is quite idiotic.
One must wonder how long this ‘couple’ worked the fool and how much it cost him to be relieved of his car.
Further proof that the tests to allow one on the road definitely are not stringent enough, at least we may have removed another texting fool (he definitely fits the profile) from the highways and byways.
“I’ve heard just about every sob story, and they always turn out to be a scam...”
Same here. I hate to be unkind to someone actually in need, but I don’t like the idea of supporting the drug trade even once-removed.
A fool and his Beemer are soon parted.
funny honey ; )
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