http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/08/30/2565836/sc-womans-180-ipad-turns-out-to.html

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"SPARTANBURG, S.C. There probably isn't an app for this. A Spartanburg woman told deputies that the iPad she bought from two men in a McDonald's restaurant parking lot turned out to be a block of wood painted black with an Apple logo. The 22-year-old woman told authorities the men first told her they were selling the iPads they bought in bulk for $300, but agreed to sell her one for $180 when she said that was all the money she had. Authorities say the men gave her a closed FedEx box, and she didn't discover she had bought a block of wood until she got home. Deputies are investigating the swindle."

8/31/2011 10:44:43 AM

they laid her to the swindle pretty hard

at that point why even paint it black with an Apple logo

[Edited on August 31, 2011 at 10:46 AM. Reason : pretty sure you could hold it and be all "this is wood"]

8/31/2011 10:45:51 AM

Parking lot purchases are always legit.

8/31/2011 10:45:53 AM

nothing in this story surprises me except for the fact these guys actually tried to make it look like an ipad...it was sealed in a box, and its not like if someone opened it to examine it they'd be convinced

8/31/2011 10:49:27 AM

8/31/2011 10:50:34 AM

LOL

8/31/2011 10:50:56 AM

8/31/2011 10:59:04 AM

^good work, citizen!

8/31/2011 10:59:54 AM

I'd rather take the $180 hit to the pocket than admit to anyone that I was that fucking stupid.

8/31/2011 11:02:16 AM

i need to invest in some wood

8/31/2011 11:06:29 AM

^^ this

8/31/2011 11:08:31 AM

how in the fuck would anyone believe that is real?

8/31/2011 11:09:29 AM

^^^^!

[Edited on August 31, 2011 at 11:10 AM. Reason : d]

8/31/2011 11:09:52 AM

Hahah...

oh there's an iPad in this box you say? here's $180

8/31/2011 11:30:46 AM

Should've employed the services of R. Bruce Hoadley



[Edited on August 31, 2011 at 11:36 AM. Reason : Fuck your red X, Slave]

8/31/2011 11:34:56 AM

Fuck your face, Ernie

8/31/2011 11:36:52 AM

i have 2 yepitswoods loading on this page for me

8/31/2011 11:38:29 AM

Slave Famous found a hat made out of dog shit this morning

8/31/2011 11:38:34 AM

Ernie with apt jpg itt

8/31/2011 11:40:30 AM

Quote :

"nothing in this story surprises me except for the fact these guys actually tried to make it look like an ipad"

lol yeah that's the one thing in the story that made me go wtf. Maybe one of the criminals has artistic flair

8/31/2011 1:28:37 PM

ahahahahaha

they put it in a sealed box. why bother to make it look like a shitty wad of duct tape?

8/31/2011 1:32:30 PM

that shit was probably hand cut by a skilled carpenter and then contracted to an artisan painter to finish this work of art.

8/31/2011 1:35:21 PM

how is this even newsworthy

8/31/2011 1:36:00 PM

because its shows craftsmanship still rules this land

8/31/2011 1:36:31 PM

She should have put it on etsy, called it art, and sold it for 200

8/31/2011 1:43:06 PM

how can you actually prove that that wasnt what you were intent on purchasing though?

who is to say a scam actually occured at all.

what if it were as ^says and what was advertised as art, and her husband beat her ass when she got home for spending his hardearned money on that "crap" and she changes her tune.

8/31/2011 1:45:10 PM

i bet she initially wondered why it wouldn't turn on

8/31/2011 1:46:57 PM

larry david would be appalled at this lack of respect for wood

8/31/2011 1:48:08 PM

more like turn off

8/31/2011 1:48:09 PM

ha
white van scam 2.0

8/31/2011 2:11:05 PM

Did they use fingerpaint to paint it black?

[Edited on August 31, 2011 at 2:31 PM. Reason : t]

8/31/2011 2:30:00 PM

looks like a demons claws in the first image

8/31/2011 2:31:06 PM

Quote :

"larry david would be appalled at this lack of respect for wood"

8/31/2011 2:42:39 PM