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Woman Embarrassingly Buys $180 Block of Wood Thinking It’s an iPad
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 7:23am by Jessie Abrams

“Spectacularly stupid.”

That’s what Gawker is calling Ashley McDowell, the woman who bought a block of wood with an Apple logo on it, thinking it was an iPad.

Two men approached McDowell in a South Carolina McDonald’s parking lot and told her they had a special deal on new iPads. They wanted $300 for their specially-painted block of wood, but when McDowell only had $180, they decided to make the deal anyway. It wasn’t until McDowell got home that she realized her super cool new gadget was really a wooden block.

There’s more.

After McDowell realized her mistake, she called the police and they actually launched an investigation into the duplicitous scammers. McDowell claims that the men told her they bought the iPads in bulk and were selling them at a discount.

But the craziness doesn‘t end with McDowell’s less-than-prudent purchase or the police investigation. The crooks are bonkers, too. They took the time to paint a screen and a couple of fake icons onto the block of wood they sold in a taped-up FedEx box. They may be good artists, but if anyone asked to open the box it’d be pretty hard to pass a block of wood off as the sleek (not wood) new tool, even with the most accurate of painted-on icons. It’s probably a better idea to keep people from opening the package in the first place.

A warning to all the bargain hunters out there: If you swipe the screen of your new iPad and get a splinter, you may have gotten duped. In addition, a general caution to not make purchases from guys who approach you in McDonald’s parking lots.

Author:	Mookhow [ Wed Aug 31, 2011 3:08 pm ]
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http://www.theblaze.com/stories/woman-e ... s-an-ipad/ Quote: Woman Embarrassingly Buys $180 Block of Wood Thinking It’s an iPad Posted on August 31, 2011 at 7:23am by Jessie Abrams “Spectacularly stupid.” That’s what Gawker is calling Ashley McDowell, the woman who bought a block of wood with an Apple logo on it, thinking it was an iPad. Two men approached McDowell in a South Carolina McDonald’s parking lot and told her they had a special deal on new iPads. They wanted $300 for their specially-painted block of wood, but when McDowell only had $180, they decided to make the deal anyway. It wasn’t until McDowell got home that she realized her super cool new gadget was really a wooden block. There’s more. After McDowell realized her mistake, she called the police and they actually launched an investigation into the duplicitous scammers. McDowell claims that the men told her they bought the iPads in bulk and were selling them at a discount. But the craziness doesn‘t end with McDowell’s less-than-prudent purchase or the police investigation. The crooks are bonkers, too. They took the time to paint a screen and a couple of fake icons onto the block of wood they sold in a taped-up FedEx box. They may be good artists, but if anyone asked to open the box it’d be pretty hard to pass a block of wood off as the sleek (not wood) new tool, even with the most accurate of painted-on icons. It’s probably a better idea to keep people from opening the package in the first place. A warning to all the bargain hunters out there: If you swipe the screen of your new iPad and get a splinter, you may have gotten duped. In addition, a general caution to not make purchases from guys who approach you in McDonald’s parking lots.

Author:	Foamy [ Wed Aug 31, 2011 3:11 pm ]
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Quote: A warning to all the bargain hunters out there: If you swipe the screen of your new iPad and get a splinter, you may have gotten duped. I LOLed.

Author:	FarSky [ Wed Aug 31, 2011 3:45 pm ]
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blinkblink

Author:	Lex Luthor [ Wed Aug 31, 2011 5:09 pm ]
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It's easy to call people gullible, but in this situation they are caught unprepared and put on this spot.

Author:	Rynar [ Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:54 pm ]
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"A fool and his money are soon parted."

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Author:	Taskiss [ Thu Sep 01, 2011 7:28 am ]
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If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

Author:	LadyKate [ Thu Sep 01, 2011 7:39 am ]
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Foamy wrote: Quote: A warning to all the bargain hunters out there: If you swipe the screen of your new iPad and get a splinter, you may have gotten duped. I LOLed. Ditto!

Author:	Numbuk [ Thu Sep 01, 2011 10:32 am ]
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I don't know who the Police should take off the streets more -- the fraudulent entrepreneurs or the woman buying the ipad. I mean, come on. Common sense, people. 1. Don't buy anything tech related from two guys approaching you in a McDonald's parking lot. 2. If you are dumb enough to do number 1, at least be smart enough to check the goods BEFORE YOU LEAVE.

Author:	Aethien [ Thu Sep 01, 2011 1:42 pm ]
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I get approached all the time in parking lots in L.A. I always wonder, who the hell buys stuff from a guy in a parking lot? Oh, dang, I need that wall-clock, and didn't even know it! It's probably just symptomatic of the impulse-buy mentality that so many people have.

Author:	Foamy [ Thu Sep 01, 2011 1:55 pm ]
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This reminds me of a story I read in one of my "Uncle John's Bathroom Reader" books Same type of situation, the woman bought a boxed flat panel TV from a guy selling them off the back of a truck. Price requested was just a bit more than she had to spend, so amazingly, he took only what she had on hand. She took it home only to find out that her brand new TV was nothing more than an oven door. Investigators finally got the clue they needed to help them figure out the recent rash of oven door thefts.

Author:	Vindicarre [ Thu Sep 01, 2011 3:45 pm ]
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Aethien wrote: I get approached all the time in parking lots in L.A. I always wonder, who the hell buys stuff from a guy in a parking lot? Oh, dang, I need that wall-clock, and didn't even know it! It's probably just symptomatic of the impulse-buy mentality that so many people have. Everybody wants to feel like they are getting a deal. Some people want it so badly that they leave their common sense (as well as ethics) at home.

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