Quick One
Not me but my little sister, she's a lot cleverer than me but quite naive.. or was.

So she's working in a northern rural garden centre/shed place. The bloke who owns it is trying to sell his van. Puts an advert up, gets a reply, sets a date for the bloke to come and see it.

Guy who owns the place nips out, dirty theiving gypo that wants to buy the van shows up. My sisters on her own.

She explains the man selling it has just nipped out. gypo puts a load of cash on the table, all 5 quid notes and asks if he can hear the engine, she agrees and leads him outside where he fires it up.

You've guessed it, once engine is running he floors it and heads for the hills.

Sisters a bit shocked at this, goes back inside, carries on counting the money, realises its about 1000 quid short.

Guy selling the van comes back, is told about driving off and lack of money, freaks out, tries to call gypo on phone.. surprise, no answer.

About 30 mins later gypo phones up, says van has broken down and wants his money back, ofcourse also argues that he has paid in full and my sister has clearly pocketed the missing money.

I don't know if you've had many dealings with gypo's but generally it involves a lot of backing down, no matter how hard you are, or how many coppers you call, your still going to get it)*

In short they paid up, 1000 quid down and a van returned missing some vital engine parts.

Apologies for length and repeated use of the word 'gypo', I have a small vocab and run out of insults far too quickly to try and vary them throughout.

*worked in a shop, boss caught two gypo's stealing, quite a tough guy, took them in back room, kicked the shit out of both of them, received death threats, actually had 2 bodyguards for over 2 years.
(Snuffy114 demands a cyber razor cut, Fri 15 Feb 2008, 11:42, Reply)