Woman buys wood block she thought was iPad

A US woman thought she had snared a bargain when she forked out $168 for what she believed was an iPad, only to discover she had just purchased a very expensive piece of wood.

Ashley McDowell, 22, bought the item from two men in the parking lot of a McDonald's restaurant in Spartanburg county, South Carolina overnight.

The men said they had bought the iPads in bulk and were selling them for only $280, a sharp reduction from the $465 US retail price.

Ms McDowell told the men she only had $168, which they accepted, giving her a FedEx box which they assured her had an iPad inside.

It was not until Ms McDowell was driving home that she opened the package and realised she had just bought a block of wood with a painted on Apple logo.

The screen was also painted on, framed with black tape and had stickers attached representing a web browser, email inbox and iPhoto.

"Basically what they'd done is taken a screenshot of an iPad screen turned on, with a copy of a Best Buy sales ticket on front. On the back they'd pasted a cut-out of the Apple logo," Lieutenant Tony Ivey, a public information officer at the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office said, The Smoking Gun reports

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/technology/8292296/woman-buys-wood-block-she-thought-was-ipad

Reminds me of a story on the news a few years back when some guys got busted selling newborn lambs to Japanese as $400 toy poodles fu,cin funny

Ha Ha Felix
The japs are so high maintenence and gullible when the catch- a crab boat docked on the Tweed River where we were for smoko some lunchtimes 5 or 6 of us would all stand and stare up a big gumtree lookin at nothin they would all stop and stand staring sometimes 10-20 of them even taking photos pointing convinced that Kylie minogue or a koala was up the tree

I'm not sure, I ask myself how dumb can people get every day.
I really don't understand how some people can feed themselves.

It's like 9/11; how dumb do you have to be to believe 2 planes hit 2 buildings and 3 buildings implode with office fires, then sign away all your freedoms.

It's like yesterday I was expecting a delivery so I call up the delivery guy who had just sms'd me. Hi my name is John Doe, from 1 Kirabilly house, your delivering a fridge... who Jame Boag, no John, oh John from Hampden road, no John from 1 Kirabilly, oh Mr Wong.... WTF dude!


I reckon there's a deliberate attempt to make people as dumb as possible.
Make dumb cool with kids.
Make dumb the school curriculum.
Make people vote for dumb or dumber.
Put dumb people on TV.



PS: Dumb is relative.

felixdcat said...

boofy said...

Reminds me of a story on the news a few years back when some guys got busted selling newborn lambs to Japanese as $400 toy poodles fu,cin funny

Classic!

One guy I know, when he was a teen, was selling "lucky koala poo" to tourists (mostly japs), he could not go in the koala enclosure so he was just picking roos dropping that were all around the national park where he was working and placing them in little plastic bags. The idiots were buying truck load of it! The souvenir shop owner in the park got pissed of and dobbed him in and he lost his job!

german tourists buy packaged moose crap in sweden. its a huge industry.

jbshack said...

$168 thats cheap, i wonder if i could get one posted to me?

of course you can. send me the $168 and i'll post you an ipad for free!!!

act now and take advantage of our special seabreeze offer: you send me the $168, and i send you the timber ipad, plus refund you $100!!! (simply include your bank account details, including password, when you pay and i will direct debit the refund)

I just won USD$2M in the Canada lottery!!!!!

....I just gotta send some withholding tax to a South African gentlemen to collect my riches!!!

Here's another one for how farking dumb can you get.

Banks gone bust, give them some more money...