I think somebody just tried to swindle me in my own home

[Sarky Devotchka]

this lady just came up to my front door and knocked on my window (the buzzer's unplugged because it started freaking out and going off randomly awhile ago), she was dancing around out there looking all nervous, but I judged her size and figured I could take her if she tried anything.

anyway, I opened the door and she said something about how she's my neighbor from next door and that she just got into a bad car accident, and she did look pretty haggard...with a long scar on the side of her face that either looked like makeup, or just an old scar...but she was saying "I already talked to Mary upstairs and the neighbor on the other side is going to give me a ride back to the accident, and all I need is 35 dollars to..." and I cut her off and was like, "yeah, I don't have any cash, I just don't, sorry". and then she was like, "okay thanks" and ran away.

how weird is that. I don't like it. maybe she was casing the joint. or maybe if I would've been like, "doh dee doh, lemme git ma wallet, I just fell off the turnip truck couple days ago", she would've straight robbed me.

35 dollars? that's so weird. it doesn't even make sense. how did she get back here from the scene of the "accident" anyway?

should I call the police? hmm.

[Qdrop]

very suspect.

go find her and start quizzing her....

if her story cracks....crack her in the windpipe...

[ms.peachy]

Yes I would call the police. This is a fairly common scam.

[Sarky Devotchka]

I didn't call the police. plus, the last time I called the police over something, they didn't show up until like an hour later. she's long gone.

[Lex Diamonds]

I think you should sit in your house with all the lights off and night vision goggles on and a huge knife in your hand, just in case she comes back. I'd say 4-6 days is a sensible waiting period.

Better to be safe than sorry. (!)

[marsdaddy]

Tell her you'll give her $35 if she gives you $5. Then rob her.

[kll]

SERIOUSLY...

just about 15 minutes ago, this woman rushes back to my office, which is in the WAY back of our building and asks me if i'm the manager:

"uh, no. i am the marketing director and i over see the office administrators"

"i need $4!!!"

"uhh, i'm the wrong person to ask for cash. i only carry debit cards anymore."

"i need $4!!!"

"what's your name?"

"i don't work here, i'v only heard of {insert my company name here}"

"well, this is a hard office to find cash in. everyone has debit cards"

"i dont want to be embarrassed. i need $4"

FREAKS

[jabumbo]

do you even have these neighbors she speaks of?



ps: LOL @ KLL

[The Notorious LOL]

why does falling off a turnip truck have a negative connotation to it? Thatd make for a fun story :(

[Sarky Devotchka]

do you even have these neighbors she speaks of?


I don't know. there's a new girl upstairs and I'm pretty sure her name isn't Mary. plus, the people that live in the building she said she lived in are pretty young, white and hipsterish. this lady was probably in her 30's and wearing camo and looked puerto rican. a couple of houses down there's a house where people work on cars and sit on the front steps playing bongos or sit on bmx bikes listening to music smoking weed and this creepy guy always says, "hey ladies" then stuff in spanish and stares, or this super creepy tiny fat man (like 4 feet) that just stares at you and laughs. some pretty skanky women hang out over there too, but she didn't look like one of them. a couple of the dudes that live there have a moving truck and a little delivery business and once they delivered a cabinet from the thrift to us. they weren't very nice and they scratched the floor. ah well. the kids that live there are nice though. one lady has a bleach blonde mullet. it rules.

[ms.peachy]

I didn't call the police. plus, the last time I called the police over something, they didn't show up until like an hour later. she's long gone.
Yeah um, that wasn't really the point though. You're meant to call the police to let them know that your area is being targeted. If they don't know, they can't potentially do anything about it.

[DandyFop]

One time I was in the Shopko parking lot and I saw a very weird looking woman approaching someone. This strip mall is pretty notorious for the whole "I just need 3.45 to get some gas, man". This woman, she's got weird scraggly blonde hair, and she's wearing a one-piece bathing suit with shorts.

I saw her coming up to someone to ask them for money and then she turned towards me and I realized what was going to happen. I started to quickly get into my car and she actually started running towards me.

She got to my window and I made a discovery - this was a man. Wearing a woman's wig and bathing suit. And this man, had no teeth.

My window was rolled down a little bit and he started REACHING IN to my car, blabbering something that I couldn't understand.

That was creepy.

[yeahwho]

Something eerily similiar just happened to me a few days back....I posted about it here....... (http://www.beastieboys.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=63205&highlight=hoax)

[Sarky Devotchka]

Yeah um, that wasn't really the point though. You're meant to call the police to let them know that your area is being targeted. If they don't know, they can't potentially do anything about it.


I know I know. my only excuse is that I don't like calling the cops because they always seem annoyed. when someone somehow charged something online to my debit card I called the police and they acted like I did something wrong. I went to the station to file a report and they acted very annoyed and put upon.

this neighborhood is crawling with cops anyhow, on account of the gentrification and all. There are a couple of small housing projects behind my building where there used to be tons of drug deals...that's pretty much cleaned up. but the latin kings have an operation a couple of streets over.

and cabrini green is not too far away, lots of crackheads from over there sprawl out and try petty scams in about a 2 mile radius.

(cabrini green being where the legend of Candyman came from, and probably the most notorious project on the north side)

[DandyFop]

Holy shit, I was gonna say, "Cabrini Green, i know that name!"

I love that movie.

[Sarky Devotchka]

it's creepy over there. I've ridden my bike past it a few times and I get scared of the candyman. also of being stabbed.

[ms.peachy]

what's "the legend of the Candyman"? :confused:

[Sarky Devotchka]

Candyman (http://www.606mag.com/main.php?id=158)

[The Notorious LOL]

I read once that in the 80s, the mayor of Chicago moved into Caprini-Green to prove it wasnt so bad and moved out three weeks later.

[Sarky Devotchka]

wow, I don't know about that. seems like it would've been worse there in the 80's. they're tearing it all down now, so hardly anyone lives there.

my friend that used to do social work had to go there sometimes to pass out diapers and check on babies and whatnot. he said it's super creepy. he's going to school to be a mechanical engineer now. pussy.

[paul jones]

this lady just came up to my front door and knocked on my window (the buzzer's unplugged because it started freaking out and going off randomly awhile ago), she was dancing around out there looking all nervous, but I judged her size and figured I could take her if she tried anything.

anyway, I opened the door and she said something about how she's my neighbor from next door and that she just got into a bad car accident, and she did look pretty haggard...with a long scar on the side of her face that either looked like makeup, or just an old scar...but she was saying "I already talked to Mary upstairs and the neighbor on the other side is going to give me a ride back to the accident, and all I need is 35 dollars to..." and I cut her off and was like, "yeah, I don't have any cash, I just don't, sorry". and then she was like, "okay thanks" and ran away.

how weird is that. I don't like it. maybe she was casing the joint. or maybe if I would've been like, "doh dee doh, lemme git ma wallet, I just fell off the turnip truck couple days ago", she would've straight robbed me.

35 dollars? that's so weird. it doesn't even make sense. how did she get back here from the scene of the "accident" anyway?

should I call the police? hmm.

we have a sticker on the door that says 'FUCK OFF DOORSTEP SELLING CUNTS' or something like that but still,a few people who can't read english try and sell jehova porn