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Criminals are using eBay to sell stolen and cloned cars, a BBC investigation has revealed.
The vehicles were being sold in Greater Manchester via at least three accounts after having their details switched with legitimate cars.
Among the victims was a retired police officer who lost £17,000 buying a Mercedes from a seller in Rochdale.
He said he reported the incident to the police, but no action was taken. Police said the decision is being reviewed.
Former police officer Graham Murray lost his money after buying a Mercedes C-class in Rochdale two months ago, leaving him "devastated".
He said he reported the case to police and has questioned why the fraudulent eBay sellers have not yet been caught.
It's safer to buy used Yugos.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by ledow on Tuesday May 09 2017, @01:37PM (12 children)
Fuck off with your casual racism.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Tuesday May 09 2017, @01:47PM (3 children)
casual?
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday May 09 2017, @05:09PM
For those who don't know UK culture we're dueling some pretty esoteric memes here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casual_(subculture) [wikipedia.org]
No I'm not in Casuals United although I'd buy them a beer at the bar. Translated into UK speak that line is something like "Argh minted todah so gon drink plonk till legless or pavement pizza or subject to her majesties pleasure" or some BS like that. (insert insensitive American tourist voice) Why can't you people all speak like a goddamn James Bond movie because at least we can understand him, also our chicks think he's hot, but the drunken slang accent not so much, sounds like a pack of large bellowing hounds. "Bar bar ar barbar ba argh ba argh!" WTF was that, are you buying me a beer or was I just propositioned or are you talking about soccer, or all of the above? At least drunken Americans have the common decency to slink into a corner and pee or vomit into a potted plant while staying out of the way. If you're gonna get drunk and spout Klingon proverbs at least learn Klingon language first you can't just make that shit up on the fly. (end insensitive American tourist voice)
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday May 09 2017, @09:09PM (1 child)
VLM is a well-known Nazi who has endorsed concentration camps for immigrants, and various other not-so-casual racist positions. Remember, the only solution to fake news is filtering by reputation.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday May 09 2017, @10:02PM
concentration camps for immigrants
Close not quite, the legals are fine plus or minus some weirdness in the regulations that needs fine tuning, the illegals simply need to go home, the camps are for the real troublemakers virtually all are domestic terrorists.
I'm definitely not anti-white like most on the left. I'd say that's my residual libertarianism speaking in that in my set of people I'm more "not anti-white" and live and let live. There are more hardline people, although I'd never punch right-ward there are some interesting aspects I'd not endorse. "white sharia" uh ...
There's a lot of pithy political sayings about someone with a heart under 30 is a liberal and someone with a brain over 40 is a conservative and all that and my pithy saying of the day is a natsoc is just a former libertarian who no longer worships the false god of unregulated capitalism. Capitalism is kind of like sex, for most people its better without government regulation and intervention but the guy yelling loudest about how we need to get the government out is exactly the guy we need to regulate the most because unlike 99% of the population he wants to rape your pet goat, or your kids or your wife. So yeah that's kind of how it is with capitalism, and libertarianism, and natsoc.
The meta issue is the whole point is, news at 11, cops are racist, try not to act all surprised, so when they do something racist try not to act all surprised. Somehow noticing that makes me casually racist, LOL.
The meta meta issue is you want to intimidate a leftist or a normie or neocon you call them a racist. You call a natsoc a casual racist and its like, uh, yeah, and the sun rises in the east ya got a point there or something?
Internally natsoc don't call themselves racist the more common phrase is race realism which fairly accurately reflects beliefs and behaviors.
(Score: 1) by Arik on Tuesday May 09 2017, @02:00PM (4 children)
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Tuesday May 09 2017, @02:21PM (1 child)
I think ledow was being ironic.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 1) by Arik on Tuesday May 09 2017, @02:58PM
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday May 09 2017, @05:11PM (1 child)
How do you figure he was racist?
The part where he advocates not doing business with people based solely on their race.
The part where he claims police are letting brown people off without investigation and instead harassing white people isn't racist. It's just incredibly stupid and completely divorced from reality.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Tuesday May 09 2017, @05:32PM
That's not exactly what he said.
"The part where he claims police are letting brown people off without investigation and instead harassing white people isn't racist. It's just incredibly stupid and completely divorced from reality."
Really?
Are you claiming that police NEVER treat people differently because of 'race?' I'm really curious as to your logic here.
I do think what he said is probably exaggerated (for comedy) and perhaps a bit baitish, but it's not actually racist, or completely divorced from reality. It's not like cops have NEVER been caught doing exactly what he posits. This has happened several times, one example that leaps to mind is the recent scandal in Rotherham UK which has resulted in several independent inquiries and the resignation in disgrace of top officials.
It's a fair bet that there is at least one or two other areas in the world where the same thing is happening currently and yes, as a matter of self-defense, someone who is in such an area and aware of the fact would naturally try to limit their contact with the group the police favor. That wouldn't necessarily indicate any racist beliefs or feelings on their part - it's a simple reaction to the racism of the police.
Of course, that doesn't mean that someone who IS racist wouldn't be predisposed to see such treatment, even where it is not happening.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday May 09 2017, @03:11PM (2 children)
It's a well known fact that different races/religions are treated differently by the cops - regardless of the victim's or the public's view of the matter. In the EU and UK, the cops have been directed to go easy on some certain minorities, because treating them just like everyone else will result in racism charges.
If you hate white, or English, or European, or Christian people, just come out and say it. Meanwhile, those people are being systematically exploited by "immigrants". And, it's past time to put a stop to the exploitation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 09 2017, @05:27PM
What would you ever do without AM talk radio telling you what to think?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 09 2017, @09:04PM
It's a well known fact that. . .
Says Runaway! Ha ha ha! Racist!!!