Pear shaped investment

wendell borton

Pear shaped resources, investment opportunity offering 20% interest on your money after 40 days! Shut up and take my money!!!
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/pear-shaped-fraudster-given-112-years-in-jail-but-hell-be-free-in-five-3174216.html

MrStuffins

Concurrent sentences make me a sad panda!

Hande hoche!

Nice to see the court is more lenient with this than with importing garlic labelled as apples.

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

Wouldn't you think the name "Pear Shaped Resources" would have set some alarm bells ringing?

mconigol

jar_of_coins wrote: »

Wouldn't you think the name "Pear Shaped Resources" would have set some alarm bells ringing?

or that the fact that the guy was a farmer working off his computer

Lando Griffin

"He knew that the two men could not do this one their own, but needed "the wisdom of God"."

Maybe that Norn Irish lad in Oz is right, his is the right religion after all.
A proper Catholic God would not allow this happen.

Boombastic

Once it's not a pyramid scheme, I'm in!

Stinicker

Boombastic wrote: »

Once it's not a pyramid scheme, I'm in!

Ponzi Scheme ftw!

Capt'n Midnight

Might as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb
is the message I keep hearing


also not really 'religious' is he ?
if lying and stealing and breaking laws and not rendering unto Caesar etc.

humbert

What in good jesus is the justification in charging him for 30 different crimes, all warranting gaol time, and having all of the time running concurrently..

He was sentenced to ten years for one crime, yet the article says he will server five in total.

Either I've misread this or the indo has misreported it or the legal system is barking mad.


Also. "literally went pear shaped", eh...

upandcumming

The Indo is such a fucking rag.