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The Butcher posted:It's usually white and expensive, and makes you annoyingly engaged so I'm not sure why that would be a good tactic to try to incapacitate someone. They're talking about scopolamine blown into someone's face, not coke (but as someone said above that's unlikely to do poo poo and is way sensationalized)
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Suburban boomers thinking their neighborhood is turning into The Serpent and the Rainbow over here.
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dr_rat posted:https://www.drugs.com/illicit/devils-breath.html So something they saw in an old kung fu movie and assumed was real.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToQ8PWYnu04 Vice journalists seem to think it works. Maybe they have sensationalized the subject though.
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Quaint Quail Quilt posted:Vice journalists Lol
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A Fancy Hat posted:Suburban boomers thinking their neighborhood is turning into The Serpent and the Rainbow over here. lol yep they afraid they penis gonna get spiked. Just kidding it's the racism. Like... they imagine some dude with a bone in his nose and bein all Screamin Jay Hawkins is going to steal their tacky poo poo. lol Dang It Bhabhi! fucked around with this message at 02:03 on Jun 4, 2022 |
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These are the people who think that if a car pulls behind you on the highway at night, you're literally about to be murdered via a gang-initiation ritual.
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I got one for y'all. A lot of my relatives are log truck drivers and I have heard them saying, on numerous occasions, that if someone stops their car in the middle of the highway at night, they are not going to stop for fear of being hijacked and will plow into the car full speed.
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Who is hijacking log trucks
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steinrokkan posted:Who is hijacking log trucks Beavers
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Desperate to stop that drat rushing sound by blocking off the whole highway
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steinrokkan posted:Who is hijacking log trucks Have you seen lumber prices these days? Sheesh. Who wouldn't hijack a log truck?
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log truck is what i named my rectum
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Welcome to the world of AIDS.
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:log truck is what i named my rectum Mine is the reverse sawmill. Stuff goes in, logs come out.
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Brawnfire posted:Now that I know who is arming the pigs, I'm SUUUUUUUUUUUUUE-IIING! This is a quality dumb joke, and I can't wait to annoy the hell out of my lovely wife by using it.
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My sincerest apologies to her
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Edmund Sparkler posted:Welcome to the world of AIDS. Dozerfleet is that you?
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Somebody was probably blowing their knockout drugs too hard.
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My favorite urban legend like that is definitely the old "asprin-in-coke" thing.
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I hear the witches have been messing with the wind. We should probably have some trials and root them out.
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Today a local middle aged lady on Nextdoor was baffled that someone would knock on her door asking if one of her cars was for sale. She thought it might ne a trick or someone out to rob her. A bunch of other people chimed in that it was probably one of the crooked Roma family that run a bunch of shady used car lots up on 82nd Ave, and that they were trying to rip her off. Now to be fair, there is a family that owns a bunch of shady car lots up there, they are Roma, and I have observed them propositioning a bunch of random people in a grocery store parking lot trying to buy their cars. And based on my own dealings with them and their bank accounts It would not surprise me if they were crooked. But like, assuming that anyone coming to the door asking to buy an older car you have in the driveway must be a wiley Roma car salesman out to scam you is a little on the nose.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Like my ex-wife?! 
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Lol this old lady thinks a gang of perfidious travellers are going to scam her out of her car and put it into a trafficking ring just because there's a gang of perfidious travellers up the road that scam cars into a trafficking ring lmao
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It seems like a weird model to just go up to people and ask if they want to sell you their car. It seems like something that people are either considering doing and taking active steps to do so, or not considering it at all, in which case a stranger coming up and asking if you're selling it seems really weird to me. Like they expect the person to say "you know, I wasn't really thinking about selling my car, but how much were you offering?"
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Sometimes I get texts asking to buy my house... Also seems pretty ineffective to me
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Ooh do you get the postcards with fake "handwriting" font from agencies saying that your friendly "neighbor" would give you cash for your house?
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Yeah, do those things work on someone? If so... how? I suck at figuring out scams
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A Strange Aeon posted:It seems like a weird model to just go up to people and ask if they want to sell you their car. It seems like something that people are either considering doing and taking active steps to do so, or not considering it at all, in which case a stranger coming up and asking if you're selling it seems really weird to me. Like they expect the person to say "you know, I wasn't really thinking about selling my car, but how much were you offering?" To me it would only make sense in case of nostalgia. If the car is more than 20 years old so there are people who associate that model car with a better time in their lives. A car they wanted or a car their family had back in the day. Since it's 20 years old it's not worth much, so you can offer 10% over bluebook value and maybe live your dream.
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I dunno that I'd think it's some kinda crime ring but if someone knocked on my door trying to buy my KIA I'd be a little confused. One time an older lady knocked and asked to buy my house. I was dumbfounded and just told her it's not for sale and closed the door. Was very weird. In hindsight, she was probably distracting me so her urban friend could try to steal my KIA...
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to be fair car prices all over are wild at the minute and it's not unreasonable that people don't know that their 5yr old weekly supermarket car is now worth more than they originally paid for it
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The car ones I have no idea what the angle is, but the knock knock "I'll buy your house!" ones are just desperate junior dipshit real estate people fishing for bigger idiots. Around here they send out what looks like hand written notes that they will buy no questions asked. I guess it's to make dummies think "hey, this is a normal person like me!" or some poo poo to build trust. I don't know if it's some cutesy font or they actually wrote it, I don't care to check, it's just getting recycled either way. The Butcher fucked around with this message at 03:30 on Jun 7, 2022 |
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therobit posted:the crooked Roma family that run a bunch of shady used car lots up on 82nd Ave Tell me you're from Portland without telling me you're from Portland.
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Unperson_47 posted:I got one for y'all. A lot of my relatives are log truck drivers and I have heard them saying, on numerous occasions, that if someone stops their car in the middle of the highway at night, they are not going to stop for fear of being hijacked and will plow into the car full speed. Well that explains this: https://twitter.com/safetyalertsmn/status/1532124452330393600?s=21&t=b-6hSm6x_nlQUDMXY5cLRQ
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A Strange Aeon posted:It seems like a weird model to just go up to people and ask if they want to sell you their car. It seems like something that people are either considering doing and taking active steps to do so, or not considering it at all, in which case a stranger coming up and asking if you're selling it seems really weird to me. Like they expect the person to say "you know, I wasn't really thinking about selling my car, but how much were you offering?" The few I ran into this guy (always at work when he would come in to deposit checks and draw out cash) he was a giant sleaze ball of a used car salesman and everywhere he went he’s asking “HEY who’s got a car to sell me? When are we gonna do a deal Robit? What kind of car do you drive? OH a VOLVO? How old is it? You looking to change? I Can make you an offer here, today. I’ll handle the paperwork if you don’t have a loan on it. No? HEY Robit’s Coworker when are we gonna do a deal on that truck?” He was a mixture of someone you might suspect of being in the mafia and like The CRAZY Eddie type used car salesman gimmick from local TV commercials back in the 80s. He apparently also has dozens of nephews out there scouting cars for him. There’s other stuff about this guy that was shady but I can’t go into because of banking privacy laws. I’m sure he was interested in ripping people off both buying and selling cars, but like that’s not something you need to worry about in terms of safety. And , uh, you know they mentioned the family’s ethnicity for a reason. Like, these people are afraid partly because they are afraid of the world, but like at least half of the motivation in this instance is just straight up naked bigotry. Some of the boomers on ND were complaining about his nephews coming around wanting to buy their car and then returning several times to ask again after being asked not to come back. I don’t know if they were just people that had well preserved, in demand cars or if they lived in proximity to him or what.
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It feels like the kinda scam that would have worked a lot better in the pre-internet age.
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You guys don't get the cards in your car windows? Might be a Europe thing. Traders send people around to stick little business cards with buying offers to every car they can find, and they're mostly looking to export them to other countries where there's a demand for older cars. Not even necessarily a scam, they might lowball you on the price or you might even get a fair deal, but you're not gonna get the very best deal and the cards tend to annoy carhavers.
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:Tell me you're from Portland without telling me you're from Portland. I was just thinking this
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