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Here, wanna buy a wii thing from me van.....

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 66 ✭✭Bob1970


    Naos wrote: »
    My wee bro was getting a sweet factory set or some such for Christmas one year, you get a mix of different 1p sweets(dolly mixture and the like) included in the box.

    Some d1ckhead from the toystore had opened the box and robbed all the sweets. Way to fcuk up a kids present.


    thats fcuking sh*t


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,378 ✭✭✭Krieg


    Dr ashens does reviews of these rip off's. The "wii" he reviews is probably not what the scumbags are turning but you get the idea


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,772 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    I had a wii in a pikey van once.. took a sh*t while I was there too


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,231 ✭✭✭Fad


    jhegarty wrote: »

    I want one of those:o


    I'd say it'd be good craic for an hour or so.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,457 ✭✭✭giggsy664


    He switched them when he said 250.

    E.P.I.C P.H.A.I.L


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,457 ✭✭✭giggsy664


    Saint_Mel wrote: »
    So it was only the shops drills that went missing :D

    On a similar note, I was watching Road Wars or something last night and a cop pulled over a car/van and found lawnmowers in the back. Closer inspection showed that one of the mowers actually belonged to the cop! Had a name/address tag on it. Pure coincidence!

    Cop:"Hey. Look at this. See this name tag; Smith?"
    Crim:"Yeah"
    Cop:"Well. I'm Smith. This Is my lawnmower"
    Crim:"No, no its not!!!"
    Cop:"I has pwned you. You are teh under a rest for stealinged my lawnmower!!!"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,467 ✭✭✭shenanigans1982


    Just got offered one of these today, I was filling up the car in a garage on the Naas road when a creamer came over and asked me if I wanted to buy a "Wii thing". He said said he was on his way to City West to deliver them to some shops but thought he would ask me first if I wanted to buy one before they sold out.

    Luckily for me I spotted the one mistake he made in his story....he had already driven by City West.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Luckily for me I spotted the one mistake he made in his story....he had already driven by City West.

    He was probably after robbing the place.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,587 ✭✭✭✭Frisbee


    giggsy664 wrote: »
    Cop:"Hey. Look at this. See this name tag; Smith?"
    Crim:"Yeah"
    Cop:"Well. I'm Smith. This Is my lawnmower"
    Crim:"No, no its not!!!"
    Cop:"I has pwned you. You are teh under a rest for stealinged my lawnmower!!!"

    Saw that last night aswell. Was Quality. Road Wars is one of my favourite shows..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,669 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    I'd never buy anything from anyone who wasn't a sales clerk in a shop or something. The fact that people would actually buy crap from some random bloke who sells things out of his car is stupid tbh, it's the worst thing you could do with these people


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,457 ✭✭✭giggsy664


    Frisbee wrote: »
    Saw that last night aswell. Was Quality. Road Wars is one of my favourite shows..

    Yeah. I laughed at it. Someone try and get a clip of it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 422 ✭✭RAFC


    +1

    Rule of thumb, if it sounds to good to be true, then it is too good to be true :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,224 ✭✭✭✭Kinetic^


    I was in the square in Tallaght a couple of years back when a few lads stopped me in my car asking did I want to buy a few phones, and he showed me some top of the range phones, 3 in total. He said he'd let us have them for €200 the lot. It was pretty obvoius that these were real top end phones, each selling for €200 min each, so we said we were interested and he said pull in and he'd chat to us.
    We pulled in and about a minute later a car pulled up, a northern reg VW and a guy got out, this was a different guy than we were talking to and he came on got in the back of my car. There was 4 of us in the car so I wasn't worried about him doing anything. He showed us the phone, made a phone call from each to prove they worked. We were happy they were good and said we'd buy them. He asked for €250. I said "no way, the other guy said 200" to which he replied he'd have to go check with the other guy about that, which was ok with us. He got out and went to up to their car adn stayed chatting to the guy for a minute. He then came back and said 200 was fine but he thought someone was watching us so we needed to hurry up, we gave him the money and he gave us the back with the phones, and then ran back to their car. I thought this looked suspicious, so I threw the bag to my mate and told him to check it was ok and then started my car and followed their car.

    When my mate looked in the bag their was no phones, nothing only a few stones to make it heavy. I was following him at this stage and I kept on his tail. He started speeding up and I kept with him. I chased him for about 5 minutes, driving up on roundabouts and through red lights and he wasn't getting away, at one stage there was a guy hanging outta the back door throwing wheelbraces and all sorts back at our car, but I never let up. He eventually pulled over and gave us our money back, but not before we gave him back his bag of stones.

    I often wondered did someone else get caught with that exact same bag later that day.


    The exact same thing happened to a mate out in Liffey Valley a few years back. We always laugh at how he got ripped off by VodaSTONE!!!!!!! :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,587 ✭✭✭✭Frisbee


    Kinetic^ wrote: »
    The exact same thing happened to a mate out in Liffey Valley a few years back. We always laugh at how he got ripped off by VodaSTONE!!!!!!! :pac:

    Oh dear Lord.... ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,292 ✭✭✭jiltloop


    smokingman wrote: »
    Hi all,

    I was going to put this in the gaming forum but this got my goat at the weekend and I need to spread the word.

    I'm sure some of you already heard about the fake chinese Wiis being sold by tinkers across the country by now, but spread the word a bit if you know of any impressionable parents in search of one for their kids at chrimbo.

    I was approached by one in Athy this weekend and asked over to his big white van to check out "da wii thing".

    "Wanna buy a wii thing for yer kids? sure d'ya know how much these are in the shops sure"

    "er, that's not a wii"

    "Sure it tis, it's a wii, dya want one for the kiddies for christmas"....

    "Where does it say Nintendo then"

    "Whatya on about? Sure it's a wii game thing, all the kiddies are wantin wan of 'em this year"

    "It's not a Wii and weren't a load of these confiscated a week or two ago by the Guards by bastards selling fake ones just like this and destroying kids christmas' - what's the reg on the van of yours...."

    "No need to be like dat now..."
    <throws fake wii back into van, slams door and drives off shouting "ya "c*nt" out the window at me>

    Now I don't really give two cr@ps about being PC here as scum like that, that want to destroy a kids christmas day for illegal profit, should be put against the wall and shot. If you see them, report them, and fingers crossed there won't be many tears on chrimbo morning this year.
    If anybody invited me over to a back of a van to show me "da wii thing" emmm I don't think I would accept the invitation.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,027 ✭✭✭The_B_Man
    Something about sandwiches


    ye he might show ya his willy!


  • Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    gazzer wrote: »
    Last month I had parked my car in the Tesco Car Park in Cavan and was heading back to it when a guy sitting in a car beside mine said to me "Here Boss do you want a great bargain". I hadnt any money (cos I had just got my hair cut) so told him that I wasnt interested.

    Then he calls me over to the car window and says "Ah you will want this.. sure you can swap me something for it". Again I said no but he still took what he wanted to sell me out of a paper bag and showed me the front of it.

    It was a DVD with a picture of a naked woman, a horse with a massive slong which said women had her hands and mouth on... As the Sunday World reporters say.. I made my excuses and left.

    I'd get a different haircut next time, especially if he thought you looked the type to buy horse porn. :D


  • Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Frisbee wrote: »
    Saw that last night aswell. Was Quality. Road Wars is one of my favourite shows..


    There was in another episode where 2 litre "laptops" were being sold form a driveby shop! right in front of an unmarked car (well the police just saw the car leaving and sussed it!).

    The mug with a bag of water bottles chased the car, followed by the bill, as they stopped the crook threw the money back in the victims face (all on camera) the case never got to court though, lack of evidence (the victim withdrew his statement):rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,102 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    You'd really be surprised how stupid people can be. I'm sure it still happens but I haven't heard of it in a while:

    I work for an electronics company in dublin city centre. One of the things we sell are laptops and on many occasions in the past people have walked into the shop to moan that they've just been duped by some bloke with a briefcase full of water/bricks/whatever. They thought they were buying a laptop on the cheap but ended up getting stung.

    You'd be surprised how frequently this happened, so much so that we just kept an eye out for it on the path outside the shop. No-one has come in to moan in a good while but I'm sure it still happens.
    There was in another episode where 2 litre "laptops" were being sold form a driveby shop! right in front of an unmarked car (well the police just saw the car leaving and sussed it!).

    The mug with a bag of water bottles chased the car, followed by the bill, as they stopped the crook threw the money back in the victims face (all on camera) the case never got to court though, lack of evidence (the victim withdrew his statement):rolleyes:

    I remember that episode, the victim was a complete wuss. I love Road Wars/Street Wars but they don't have terribly many new shows and they repeat the others far too often.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    binhead wrote: »
    Oldest trick in the book man!

    the eh, book of dodgy stuff.

    It's simple - If a van pulls up and offers to sell you anything other than Ice cream or chips, run away.
    Buy ice cream from someone in a van drives around all day handling change without washing his hands and then pi**es into a bottle because he is too lazy get out of his van and use a jacks. :eek:

    I would only send kids out to get Ice cream from someone that uses disposable gloves.

    Back on topic, anyone who buys anything from a low roof Ford Transit or Hiace deserves what they get. Everything is either counterfeit or ripped off.


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  • Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I built a house three years ago, while digging the foundations, this van turns up on site...
    the driver then tries to sell me a fireplace surround WTF, where the hell was I supposed to put that! :rolleyes:

    The house was nothing but a hole in the ground!

    Whe I refused, he then offered a s/h generator plus an assortment of tools... I just showed him where the road was!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    I built a house three years ago, while digging the foundations, this van turns up on site...
    the driver then tries to sell me a fireplace surround WTF, where the hell was I supposed to put that! :rolleyes:

    The house was nothing but a hole in the ground!

    Whe I refused, he then offered a s/h generator plus an assortment of tools... I just showed him where the road was!
    How much did he charge to tar it for ya :pac::pac::pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,706 ✭✭✭120_Minutes


    s'pose he had to pay for his daughters wedding somehow.


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