If a stranger approached you in a McDonald's parking lot and offered to sell an iPad on the cheap, how would you react?
For Ashley McDowell, the answer was an immediate yes.
According to the sheriff's office in Spartanburg County, South Carolina in the US, the 22-year-old McDowell was picking up food Monday night at a McDonald's when two men approached her in the parking lot.
After showing her a new iPad, the police report said, the guys told McDowell that they had purchased the tablet computers in bulk and were reselling them for $US300 ($280) apiece.
McDowell evidently jumped at the chance to snag a cut-rate iPad but explained that she had only $US180 ($168). The men decided to sell her one iPad at that price, she told police.
McDowell handed them the money and then waited to open the FedEx box supposedly containing the iPad until she got home - where she proceeded to pull out not a shiny new Apple tablet, but a "piece of wood painted black with an Apple logo", the police report said.
The so-called "screen" is filled with mock iPad icons for email, photos and Safari - all held down with black tape. The studious con men even included a "Best Buy sales ticket", police said.
McDowell told police that the swindlers were driving "a white Impala with no rims and no tint". One of the guys, she noted, had "a gold tooth".
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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If it had been real, one would have to know that it was hot. Given all the ways of tracing electronic technology today, that would have made it a stupid buy in any case.
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"Colonialism is not 'winning' - it's an unsustainable model. Like your hairline." -- Candace Linklater
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Don't tell that to the MOTU. 
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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iDon'tknowwhatshewasthinking! 
If it seems too good to be true, it is.
If it seems too good to be true, it is.
Personally, I don’t believe in bros before hoes, or hoes before bros. There needs to be a balance. A homie-hoe-stasis, if you will.