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This TV Packs Heat Like It's an Oven Door... Oh Wait.

by Terrence O'Brien on August 20, 2009 at 01:15 PM

This TV Packs Heat Like It's The Oven Door... Oh Wait
Scammers have long been pulling the ol' box-o-rocks trick, packaging something heavy and worthless (like rocks) in the box of a valuable item (e.g., a MacBook, PSP, etc.). Usually, this trick involves removing the goods somewhere between the manufacturer and its big-box retailer destination, and shrink-wrapping the container. The switcheroo is only discovered when some poor consumer gets the box home and opens it, finding nothing but a few bricks.

It takes a set of balls visible from space, though, to sit outside a San Leandro, California Walmart and sell a 37-inch HDTV out of the trunk of your car (particularly when the HDTV in question is actually an oven door with a few stickers on it). The first hint that something was off about the 'TV' (besides the lack of a stand, buttons, inputs, screen, etc.) should have been the price. Anthony Myles, who was later arrested, was allegedly trying to sell the 'TV' for $100, despite the faked BestBuy price tag on it that put the price at $1,949.99, Inside Bay Area reports.

Having been informed of the con last Wednesday, police later spotted Myles's 1980 Oldsmobile, pulled him over, and arrested him for driving with a suspended license. No charges related to the supposed fraud were filed, though police did confiscate the Sony-branded oven door. [From: Inside Bay Area]

Tags: dumb criminal, DumbCriminal, funny, hdtv, scam, tv

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