this PS2...
did it come boxed?

...or in a poly bag with minumum cables, no literature and a handful of dog-eared games? i cant understand the attitude of people who deride pikey chav scum for ransacking peoples homes then buy what has obviously been ripped out of someones living room half an hour previously

or maybe he bought it with the credit card he got courtesy of your stolen mail/identity
( spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Sun 4 Oct 2009, 21:52, 2 replies)

there's a one-legged smackhead around these parts
who knocks on people's doors, trying to sell them damaged crap that he has obviously just stolen from the charity shop around the corner.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sun 4 Oct 2009, 21:55, closed)

one-legged?
does he do pirate videos
( spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Sun 4 Oct 2009, 22:01, closed)

oof!
no, but he stole my mate's dvd player, forgot where he'd nicked it from and tried to sell it back to her!
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sun 4 Oct 2009, 22:04, closed)

if people refused to buy stolen goods
scum would be forced to stop stealing them

if we just handed the drugs out to them it would save a fortune in shoplifiting, burglaries, car theft, and muggings - all of which we end up paying for one way or another

organised crime would lose its grip over millions of people

billions would be saved in police, court, legal and prison costs every year - money that could be spent schools hospitals and care for the elderly

but we shrug and say - a PS2 for 30 quid - fuck yeah!
( spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Sun 4 Oct 2009, 22:14, closed)

i'd like to just give them the drugs
preferably considerably more than their bodies can tolerate
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sun 4 Oct 2009, 22:19, closed)

well i can understand that attitude
but in my experience most junkies are sad people that need help, whatever way you look at it - no one would choose to end up and that state. some also happen to be cunts into the bargain. it's not my position to judge and in the main i dont give a fuck untill they steal from me.

but if as a society we got wise, took the scenario out of the hands of criminals we would save ourselves a lot of time money and grief and in doing so remove most of the lame excuses our police juciciary and government rely upon

but so long as we have press an politicians whipping an ill informed public into a frenzy that 'the war on drugs' can somehow be won - then it's business as usual

*gets off soapbox*
( spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Sun 4 Oct 2009, 22:34, closed)

the only ones i know are cunts
i did know a fairly decent one, he was trying to get off the stuff. unfortunately, after serving a six-monther, he decided to celebrate and died of an overdose.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sun 4 Oct 2009, 23:20, closed)

just this...
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8255418.stm
(floella, Mon 5 Oct 2009, 22:22, closed)

It was almost definitely stolen, I'm afraid...
In my defence, at the time of buying it he'd only just moved in downstairs and just seemed a bit thick (he knocked on our door one day not long after he'd moved in and asked which flat number was his). I thought he was selling his own console because he was skint - I actually am naive enough to have believed at the time that I was doing something good for someone.

Well, obviously I was - but the thought that it had been stolen didn't even cross my mind at the time :/
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Sun 4 Oct 2009, 22:22, closed)

i'd get some credit checks done
he was stealing your mail for a reason and it wasn't that tenner from your granny on your birthday he was after

his postcode would have beeen exactly the same as yours yet he had a legitimate address of his own as soon as he had a couple of utility bills of yours and some limited know how then he could have all manner of credit cards and loans in your name. you wont know untill you get refused credit. he may well be thick as shit but these little cunts talk to each other - usually while they're inside
( spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Sun 4 Oct 2009, 22:41, closed)

I do actually think that he's stupid enough to not have even thought of that...
The only things that we noticed had gone missing were a DVD, a birthday card with some money in it and a CD. He even opened one of Jessie's parcels once, saw it was an old book and tried to reseal the jiffy bag and leave it for her to find.

He was definitely targetting the stuff that looked like it had exciting new toys in it; the official looking letters were never touched. Most of my bank stuff is online anyway, so I wasn't too worried about that, but we did both register with Experian and check ourselves out - so far so good.

It's still fucking annoying though - especially when we've been promised a locking postbox and nothing's happened about it for months and months O_o
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 9:18, closed)