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| Thread ID: 102330 | 2009-08-15 20:28:00 | Flat Screen 37" TV For $100.00 | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 801413 | 2009-08-15 20:28:00 | SAN LEANDRO, California, USA — A brand-new 37-inch Sony flat screen television for $100? Great deal — until you take it out of the box and realize you just bought an oven door. San Leandro police Lt. Pete Ballew called it a variation on the old "rocks in a box" scam, in which a box is presented as containing new, expensive electronics for sale but is actually full of rocks. On Wednesday San Leandro police pulled over a man who had in his car a box containing what appeared to be an expensive 37-inch flat-screen television, but in actuality was a glass oven door cleverly disguised as a TV. The man is suspected of trying to sell the item for $100 in the parking lot of the San Lorenzo Wal-Mart, 15555 Hesperian Blvd. Don't get any ideas youse guys! :D |
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| 801414 | 2009-08-15 20:38:00 | Only in America!! :D Ken |
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| 801415 | 2009-08-15 22:06:00 | I wonder what the picture was like - I suppose it would depend on the reception. Did they item say whether it was a plasma or LCD oven door? |
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| 801416 | 2009-08-15 23:57:00 | Would look great with a roast turkey behind it | seltsam (13470) | ||
| 801417 | 2009-08-16 01:03:00 | Gonna hijack my own post here: WARNING - OLD GUY'S STORY FOLLOWS May exceed 30 words! I was very young - about 8 or so (not dog years either!) and my younger sister whom I have just disowned and I were baking gingerbread cookies in the shapes of gingerbread men waiting for the first visit from my maternal grandparents from New Jersey to our huge barn-home in Lyme, Connecticut . It prolly was some sorta holiday - but when they arrived and all the hugs and kissing and "Ohhh" and "Ahh-ing" was done over how big we'd grown and the usually family banter, we had them both sit in the wooden kitchen chairs in front of our glass-fronted double-decker ovens where we had posed some of the cookies in situations that required a stage set change - which we accomplished with either having the top oven lit and then switching that off and turning to light on in the lower oven . My sister and I both narrated and supplied voices to the cookies and when it was over we turned out the oven lights and we took bows for the audience . When we looked up - my grandfather was crying softly and with that he took us by the hand to buy our first television set . My mom said it was the first and also the last time the old coot ever paid for something as a gift to anyone . :crying |
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