Woman sold laptop but got Sack of Potatoes

wnb · 5 Oct 2010 at 14:17

http://www.lep.co.uk/news/local/sack_of_potatoes_cost_woman_750_1_783369

Idiot women! got what she deserved as she was abviously trying to buy stolen goods.

ordinaryjoe · 5 Oct 2010 at 14:21

Your post title implies that she sold the laptop - not that she was sold a laptop

AtreuS · 5 Oct 2010 at 14:24

Ahhh the old polish guy/girl bag switch-a-roo routine.

sanaxe1 · 5 Oct 2010 at 14:26

I bet she wouldn't be complaining if she purchased some potatoes but got a laptop!

tb2000 · 5 Oct 2010 at 14:28

The easiest way to avoid it is just not to buy of someone who comes out of nowhere and offers you cheap stuff!

Efour · 5 Oct 2010 at 14:28

idiot robs idiot.

perfect balance restored

GravyMonster · 5 Oct 2010 at 14:31

The horrified potential handler of stolen property, from Ribbleton, Preston, believed she was paying a bargain price for two laptops and three mobile phones.

Fixed.

Victim my arse.

jack.mitchell · 5 Oct 2010 at 14:34

How has this made it into the paper....

Next up, man sues coke dealer over talcum powder content.

bsoltan · 5 Oct 2010 at 14:37

I wish people would stop writing iPhone as i-Phone.

Dewotter · 5 Oct 2010 at 14:37

he had bought an i-Phone and laptop.

Oh that hurts me, it's iPhone.

markweatherill · 5 Oct 2010 at 14:39

RKO said:
Oh that hurts me, it's iPhone.

What if the 'laptop' was actually a macbook, then? SHOCK

Tefal · 5 Oct 2010 at 14:40

jack.mitchell said:
How has this made it into the paper....

it's the Lancashire evening post

Sp00n · 5 Oct 2010 at 14:40

Old tricks, I've seen it done with water bottles.

Stromatolites · 5 Oct 2010 at 14:42

I would actually like some potato's

Durzel · 5 Oct 2010 at 14:46

Had to laugh at this..

A man was approached by a group of three men as he was gardening in the front garden of his home on Dixon Avenue, in Deepdale.

They offered to sell him a laptop and i-Phone for £220.

Yeah definitely not a scam that. 3 blokes come up to me trying to flog cheap electronics stuff when I'm watering the lawn all the time.

Hard to have sympathy for people who clearly get into transactions where it is assumed what they are receiving is stolen goods.

Cosimo · 5 Oct 2010 at 14:49

The first offender was of a large build with cropped hair and drove a Vauxhall vehicle

Well he'll be easy to recognise.

steve-h · 5 Oct 2010 at 14:50

She got what she deserved... plus haven't I seen that con on the real hustle?

TangoSixteen · 5 Oct 2010 at 14:53

Thread title made me lol my flaps off.

antijoke · 5 Oct 2010 at 14:54

Cheap as chips!

Cosimo · 5 Oct 2010 at 14:55

In Latvia they would offered her potatoes and given her the laptop.