The spectacularly stupid Ashley McDowell was approached by two men in a McDonald’s parking lot where they offered to sell her an iPad for $300. She only had $180, but they gave it to her anyway. When she got home, she found out it was really just a block of wood with an Apple logo painted on the back.
I suppose I should probably file this under “Things That Make Me Feel Better About Myself But Also Fear For Our Future,” because there ain’t nuthin’ that says “I’m not getting a Nobel Prize this year” like buying a wooden rendition of an iPad in a McDonald’s parking lot. Especially when you think you’re getting a GREAT deal on an ACTUAL iPad. Jeebus, what’s next? Someone trying to offer women a dick in a box??
Well, DUH…. I mean, really, you pay $180 for a block of wood in a Fedex box…and you’re upset when it turns out NOT to be a real iPad? There’s no way that anyone with anything even remotely resembling a functional intellect could think that what Ms. McDowell purchased was a real iPad. As a work of art, though, the fauxiPad is actually quite impressive. Normally, “brick in a box” purveyors don’t worry about anything except ensuring that the weight approximates that of whatever commodity they’re trying to fake. Still, Ms. McDowell is going to have a difficult time finding anyone willing to direct anything close to sympathy her way:
McDowell told probers that the swindlers were driving “a white Impala with no rims and no tint.” One of the men, she noted, “had a gold tooth.”
Well, lucky for Ms. McDowell they were willing to deliver, eh?
