OT: And a partridge in a pear tree....

[TehDoak]

Time to take his phone and change the accounts. Wish I could find the people doing this to him, they'd regret the day they were born.

Ironically, my father just got the USPS scam text my daughter got. They are having a good laugh.

Much easier said than done. I'd have to wrestle it out of his baseball mitts for hands. He grew up on a farm and is still plenty strong and stubborn. My wife caught a glance at his phone for a second and he was texting someone with 3 hearts next to their name. He is around 70. And given the last set of gift cards was for Sephora, I'm guessing that there is more going on here than just a simple 'prize delivery' scam. Who knows how many people are ripping him off at this point.

Next time he sets it down to charge, my wife is going to get me to take him out on an errand and get him away for it for a few minutes so we can see what is going on.

 

[whiplash]

I spoke to my wife and this has been an ongoing thing for the last year. Evidently, despite all evidence to the contrary, he believes he's won a sweepstakes overseas and they keep telling him they are encountering problems delivering it and need more giftcards. They create fake tracking sites and everything. AARP has a support group for victims of these scams, but he still doesn't believe he's been scammed. He's spent literally thousands of dollars on this over the last year. My mother in law is at her wits end and he's bleeding their savings dry. And she is in the middle of breast cancer treatment.

Everyone has told him he's being scammed and he believes the people he's never met.

My wife is telling her mom to give him an ultimatum and leave. Good old extended family drama for the holiday.

Happened to a buddy's dad and the threat of his wife of 50 years leaving was the only thing that dragged him out. I'm f***ing baffled by the scams people fall for, or the phishing tests that coworkers fail. As shitty as Google is these days, it takes all of 30 seconds to look up whether things are legit.

 

[whiplash]

I would like to see the people who do these things hunted down and publicly executed by being drawn and quartered using Jeeps.

Then you will likely very much enjoy the Jason Statham vehicle The Beekeeper. It's basically John Wick, Jason Bourne, and Walking Tall/Death Wish wrapped into one. But with bees

 

[Mike McDermott]

Then you will likely very much enjoy the Jason Statham vehicle The Beekeeper. It's basically John Wick, Jason Bourne, and Walking Tall/Death Wish wrapped into one. But with bees

I kept seeing previews for that on one of the streaming services and finally watched it a few months ago and it was pretty decent.

 

[Beerz]

Time to take his phone and change the accounts. Wish I could find the people doing this to him, they'd regret the day they were born.

Ironically, my father just got the USPS scam text my daughter got. They are having a good laugh.

I just got one today.

 

[MarkusKetterer]

I just got one today.

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I get these and just laugh. Because of being in Canada

 

[Gras]

Then you will likely very much enjoy the Jason Statham vehicle The Beekeeper. It's basically John Wick, Jason Bourne, and Walking Tall/Death Wish wrapped into one. But with bees

Only unrealistic thing about the movie is the call centers weren't in India.

 

[MarkusKetterer]

So my sister just messaged me, and my old boss died today. Crazy thing is I was supposed to go back to work for him after the holidays.

 

[TheMistyStranger]

So my sister just messaged me, and my old boss died today. Crazy thing is I was supposed to go back to work for him after the holidays.

Yeesh. Condolences - whether or not you got on well with him, it's always at the very least uncomfortable when a former coworker passes away.

The amount of chaos in your orbit, I get the feeling you're in Canada's 5th Most Dangerous City or something.

 

[Sabresfansince1980]

Going along with the trend in this thread...

https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/greensboro/man-accused-of-killing-greensboro-officer-michael-horan-at-food-lion-was-an-instacart-driver/

Insta cart guy buying food at a grocery store with a gun. Store sees the gun and calls police, guy fights with officer and shoots him dead. The non-public details are terrible, and yet another Christmas season comes and goes with a co-worker being murdered.

Officer was a great guy with two kids... hockey fan from NJ.

 

[Chainshot]

I just got one today.

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That's the one .

 

[Chainshot]

Going along with the trend in this thread...

https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/greensboro/man-accused-of-killing-greensboro-officer-michael-horan-at-food-lion-was-an-instacart-driver/

Insta cart guy buying food at a grocery store with a gun. Store sees the gun and calls police, guy fights with officer and shoots him dead. The non-public details are terrible, and yet another Christmas season comes and goes with a co-worker being murdered.

Officer was a great guy with two kids... hockey fan from NJ.

That was where one of my friends in Greensboro shops with her mom. They had been there earlier in the day. Senseless.

Condolences to the family and the rest of GPD.

 

[MarkusKetterer]

Yeesh. Condolences - whether or not you got on well with him, it's always at the very least uncomfortable when a former coworker passes away.

The amount of chaos in your orbit, I get the feeling you're in Canada's 5th Most Dangerous City or something.

For the most part we got along fine. Like every job we’d butt heads at times. But generally I’d be in charge when he wasn’t there. Unfortunately on that part I wouldn’t work that often due to the constant re-breaking of my hand (I’ve done it 8 times this year alone).

The fact that he died isn’t that shocking, given he had both stage 4 oesophageal and liver cancer.

 

[TehDoak]

I want to hang out with pop tarts marketing department

 

[TheMistyStranger]

I want to hang out with pop tarts marketing department

This is right up there with The Gobbledy Gooker

 

[HaNotsri]

Much easier said than done. I'd have to wrestle it out of his baseball mitts for hands. He grew up on a farm and is still plenty strong and stubborn. My wife caught a glance at his phone for a second and he was texting someone with 3 hearts next to their name. He is around 70. And given the last set of gift cards was for Sephora, I'm guessing that there is more going on here than just a simple 'prize delivery' scam. Who knows how many people are ripping him off at this point.

Next time he sets it down to charge, my wife is going to get me to take him out on an errand and get him away for it for a few minutes so we can see what is going on.

Tell me if you want me to run the scam on him and paypal your mil the money. Might be easier.

 

[brian_griffin]

Going along with the trend in this thread...

https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/greensboro/man-accused-of-killing-greensboro-officer-michael-horan-at-food-lion-was-an-instacart-driver/

Insta cart guy buying food at a grocery store with a gun. Store sees the gun and calls police, guy fights with officer and shoots him dead. The non-public details are terrible, and yet another Christmas season comes and goes with a co-worker being murdered.

Officer was a great guy with two kids... hockey fan from NJ.

Absolute tragedy. The online details I have seen aren't much help. It isn't clear from what I've seen that the observed gun was open-carry or concealed (apparently poorly). North Carolina is an open-carry state and it's similarly not clear to me Food Lion / that location had a no guns / no weapons posting (independent of InstaCart policy). I'll check one of my local stores when I return home from vacation. I've seen (second-hand, but I trust what I read) the officer did not draw his weapon, so I wholly support the State pursuing as severe a charge as permissible.

I'm not out in public often - my world is work, church, a couple regular stores, and home, but I have seen open carry in public (not rural / private property) by plain-clothes Carolinians not displaying any obvious LEO badge.

Everyone I know regardless of home State (family, ex-LEO family, friends, past acquaintances who worked late nights / early mornings on weekends in certain parts of town where nothing you saw would surprise you, and you wouldn't want to ever be caught surprised) who had conceal-carry, would never put themselves or a LEO in a situation like that.

Condolences to his family and colleagues.