Scumbags and Cattle Rustlers

[glassbuggy]

Today's news highlights the sad story of an elderly couple who placed a wanted ad for a 66 mustang, they are missing, their car was found submerged and a dubious punk is in jail under suspicion. This leads me to the topic. In our travels as hobbyists you and I have traveled hill and dale for every part imaginable with zest and excitement while never considering the wolf behind the tree line. What shady stories can you share here amongst your brothers?

[Mike Fisher]

We drove down from Redding & tried to buy some pot on Haight/Ashbury one night in '69. The sellers we found put both of us in the front seat of a '60's bug to go get a $70 bag of pot. 2 blocks up from Haight the back seat guy put a chrome automatic pistol on us! They pushed us out on the sidewalk without our $70.
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66 sunroof,67,70,71,71,71AT,72,72AT,73 Parts
two 57 oval ragtops sold
'68 Karmann Ghia sold

Society is like stew. If you don't keep it stirred up you end up with a lot of scum on the top! - Russ_Wolfe/Edward Abbey

[vwracerdave]

I read local news story where a man agreed to buy an item listed on Craigslist for $600. The seller said he would meet him at "X" parking lot for the sale. When the man got there he was robbed at gunpoint of the $600 cash.
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2010 Sportsman ET Champion - Mid-America Dragway - Arkansas City, KS
1997 Sportsman ET Champion - Thunder Valley Raceway Park - Noble ,OK

[Letterman7]

There's quite a few robbed at gunpoint stories for less than $600 around here. I'm next to a quite depressed 3rd class city, and the drug trade is rampant. I rarely buy something off CL, but if it's something I really want (like, my latest acquisition - an '82 Corvette), I take my 6'1" 300 pound football player built neighbor with me.. just in case. And if it really looks shady, and I'm by myself, I simply turn around and go home. There's nothing I need that bad to be worth dying for.

[skills@eurocarsplus]

my mother in law, father in law, and I went to go look at a 90 triple white cabby for my mother in laws soon to be daughter in law. her cabby was stolen while being repaired (as in, the shop stole it, sold it to another customer)

anyway, they wanted to surprise her with this car as a wedding gift. found it here on the samba and made arrangements to go look at it.

it was buried deep, deep in the bowels of some shithole factory converted to storage units in a bad part central Connecticut.

anyway, I don't think the guy expected 3 people to turn up, let alone my father in law who is a pretty big dude. when we got in the car to leave, my father in law pulled a .45 out of his pocket and said "just in case the deal went sideways, I brought my heater" I laughed and pulled out my .357.

the dude was shady, but the city in which it was located was the red flag. in the end, we walked away from the deal over like 300.00. kinda glad, the car was a piece of shit.
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[EverettB]

[drscope]

BIG problem in the Baltimore area is selling motorcycles on CL.

They come look at the bike, do the deal, pay you the money, get the title signed and take it away. As soon as they turn the corner, their buddies show up and rob you of the cash.

Cops won't do anything to connect the two and treat it simply as a robbery which means it never gets investigated and you never get your stuff back.
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[crukab]

[glassbuggy]

WOW. Honestly didn't think there would be many replies to this post. A sad commentary to the world we live in.

[drscope]

[chaosisme]

[Mike Fisher]

[6T5 square]

aahhh the 70's! those were the days.

I once received 7 ounces of Hawaii's finest in a saltine cracker can, through the US mail.

Man I miss pot.
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65 square 1500S (weezer) sold but always on my mind
60 beetle (Ned)

Quoting John Muir -- Open the rear boot. Get out the stool and sit down. Contemplate the air-cooled beauty before you. - How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive -- Step-By-Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot

[my59]

Aaahhh metal Saltine cans.... I miss them.
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[nsracing]

I have been lucky, have never been robbed or anything in my dealings w/ people.

I have been as far down as Fla, Ala, TN, KY, MO, and northeast, midwest -been treated good.

Just be mindful though that when the deal is too good to be true -IT IS!

Although there was once I went to pick up a machine I had already paid for online. And the fella insisted I meet him after hours when the shop was closed. I said....hmmmn...this could be trouble. Either I end up killing him or I end up in jail for receiving stolen property or I end up part of the robbery.

I made sure I had plenty of conversations through the company phone lines beforehand to establish my dealings. I went to the bathroom, put my hand print on the glass - in case I get killed. Did a press-check on the lowly companion Mr. SIG...and I went.

He got me loaded up, gave me my bill of lading, I secured the load and I was off.

I can only remember a couple of times when my sorround made me a bit nervous, but overall, my experiences w/ people have been good. I go out w/ the attitude that people are essentially good.

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[Volks Wagen]

[MacLeod Willy]

This poor guy was selling his truck on Kijiji. Two people showed and went for a road test with him and never came back. They killed him and burned his body.
The third person was a girlfriend followed them as an accomplice.

I wish I was in charge of the sentence

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/05/15/tim_bosma_murder_five_unanswered_questions.html