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    German Bargain Hunters Conned Into Buying Bag of "Potato iPods"
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    Image of lolgreg lolgreg
    07/12/09

    In reply to German Bargain Hunters Conned Into Buying Bag of "Potato iPods"
    I don't see why the police would need to step in on a classic case of stupidity.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    07/12/09

    In reply to German Bargain Hunters Conned Into Buying Bag of "Potato iPods"
    this is why you don't buy a pig in a poke.
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    Image of se7a7n7 se7a7n7
    07/12/09

    In reply to German Bargain Hunters Conned Into Buying Bag of "Potato iPods"
    Shortly after I moved to NYC, maybe 2001, a guy sold me a very nice looking digital video camera for $80. He showed me the box in a shopping bag from Best Buy, of course I was smart enough to make that the box was heavy enough to have an expensive digital camera. It seemed shady and I was pretty broke at the time but I just couldn't pass up that deal.



    I was super excited to about the prospect of making digital movies back then...



    So I get to a place to check it out.... and it's a box with the Sunday Daily News inside. The box just had a couple of pages of a sale circular ad for the camera taped to the sides...



    I considered it an $80 lesson on how to handle myself in New York City.
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    Image of jmposvip jmposvip
    07/12/09

    In reply to German Bargain Hunters Conned Into Buying Bag of "Potato iPods"
    Why do always have to be stupid things in the bag in this kind of story? I wish that someday there would be a story like this: A men bought a bag and there was Jessica Biel in it!!!!
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    07/12/09

    @jmposvip: Isn't that murder?
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    Image of jmposvip jmposvip
    07/13/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: No, in my srory she's alive and when she get out of the bag she says: do you wanna see the moves from my new movie powder blue?
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    Image of gemcosta gemcosta
    07/12/09

    In reply to German Bargain Hunters Conned Into Buying Bag of "Potato iPods"
    There is no better fitting word for this than "pwnd"
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    Image of GlenTen GlenTen
    07/12/09

    @gemcosta: What about potatwnd? Meh, i tried.
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    Image of Sticks Calhoun Sticks Calhoun
    07/12/09





    Weirdly, the Gawker upload won't actually play the gif, but I can't delete it out of my post. Go figure!
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    Edited by Sticks Calhoun at 07/12/09 5:29 PM Sticks Calhoun was starred Sticks Calhoun was unstarred
    Image of nutriapeluda nutriapeluda
    07/12/09

    In reply to German Bargain Hunters Conned Into Buying Bag of "Potato iPods"
    Can you make beer out of potatoes? then it wouldn't be a total loss
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    Image of [Medic]iEro-Sennin [Medic]iEro-Sennin
    07/12/09

    @nutriapeluda: No, but you can make Vodka out of it.
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    Image of ID Ron Burgundy ID Ron Burgundy
    07/12/09

    In reply to German Bargain Hunters Conned Into Buying Bag of "Potato iPods"
    I so love potato salad. You haven't had real American potato salad until you've been to the Midwest. Mmmmm, just thinking of it makes me sooo hungry, and I just had fresh-picked blueberry pancakes!



    We know our food. ( :
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    Image of frigg frigg
    07/12/09

    @my secret identity: the secret of fresh picked blueberry pancakes is to pick them just as the pancakes become golden on the vine. :)
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    07/13/09

    @frigg: Where does one pick these pancakes?
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    Image of AaronC-T AaronC-T
    07/12/09

    In reply to German Bargain Hunters Conned Into Buying Bag of "Potato iPods"
    ... Wouldn't you first open the bag before handing over the money? At the very least, wouldn't you give them the money, they hand you the bag, you open it/punch them in the face?
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    Image of Jesustron Jesustron
    07/12/09

    @AaronC-T:



    That sure would have gotten to the root of the problem.
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    Image of Log1c Log1c
    07/12/09

    @Jesustron: Or to the tuber perhaps?
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    Image of Jesustron Jesustron
    07/12/09

    @Log1c:



    I would have used tuber if it made any sense at all.
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    Image of zeroprime zeroprime
    07/12/09

    @Jesustron: The sellers soiled their credibility and lost all their a peel as businessmen.
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    Image of Log1c Log1c
    07/12/09

    @Jesustron: It doesn't really matter. Plus bad puns are bad.
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    Edited by Log1c at 07/12/09 9:12 PM Log1c was starred Log1c was unstarred
    Image of [Medic]iEro-Sennin [Medic]iEro-Sennin
    07/12/09

    In reply to German Bargain Hunters Conned Into Buying Bag of "Potato iPods"
    You know what's funny? Germans are referred to as potatoes(Kartoffeln) in Germany.
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    Image of shoelessone shoelessone
    07/12/09

    In reply to German Bargain Hunters Conned Into Buying Bag of "Potato iPods"
    I love patatos. You can boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew.
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    Image of ID Ron Burgundy ID Ron Burgundy
    07/12/09

    @shoelessone: Haha, awesome quote. I recently discovered that I could do a pretty good rendition of Sam's voice.
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    Image of switchblade saints switchblade saints
    07/12/09

    In reply to German Bargain Hunters Conned Into Buying Bag of "Potato iPods"
    "this wasnt me I swear"- iaintpayinyou
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    Image of ID Ron Burgundy ID Ron Burgundy
    07/12/09

    @switchblade saints: Nicely done.
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