[Scoop]

Smoking is bad for you. Here's the proof.

Out cleaning my bins yesterday when two guys in a van called me over. Strong Irish accents. Had some cheap baccy for sale. I know I should have walked away but I pay £14 a week for 50 grams of this rubbish so I listened further.

They needed money for diesel and had to sell this at a bargain price. Showed me the goods and even let me roll one. Make them an offer. Haggled down to ridiculously low price for what it was, but still about a days wages. Paid them and they handed me the bag and drove off.

Took it to the van to discover that I am now the proud owner of two white sliced loaves of Kingsmill.

Penn and Teller wouldn't have seen the switch. I certainly didn't. I don't dare tell the wife cos she'll kill me.

Stupid thing is that I should be furious but I can't stop laughing about it.

[markymark]

Still got the receipt? I'm sure these fine gents would give you a refund... 

[mathewl]

Don't worry about it. These things can happen to anybody.

[Steve CM]

You do have to laugh about it.

It happened to me in a strip bar in soho many years ago.

There wasn't baccy or white loads involved. Just naked women, buying them drinks, the price list on the table of many many many pounds for what was probably orange juice. My pockets being emptied out by a few bears and not even a tent in my trousers to show for it.

You do have to laugh about it

[cozy]

Never trust Pykies mate. At least it was only a few quid  Wannabuyacaravan??? 

[H2GoKent]

If you use this as an opportunity to quit it could save you thousands..

Lecture over, sorry

[weetot]

Hey that Kingsmill stuff is good sh**. Don't knock it, though it does taste like toast when ya smoke it.

[DaveG]

Wanna by a "dag"?

[RO-Sheen]

hahahahahaha......and you Brits call us Irish stupid??? At least you can laugh about it. Thats why I love you all! xxxx

[Craig Trevain]

Could of been worse they stole a £16000.00 3 week old caravan off of me last week, cut all the hand breaks on our vans to get to it, got them on cam they don't mind cause they know their get away with it.

These are useless worthless vermin .

[wpclean]

Could of been worse they stole a £16000.00 3 week old caravan off of me last week, cut all the hand breaks on our vans to get to it, got them on cam they don't mind cause they know their get away with it.

These are useless worthless vermin .

That is terrible, will the insurance cover it ?

[the bfg]

about 15 years ago me and my mate went to Amsterdam for a smokers weekend which was fantastico,   however on the sat afternoon we were going to an Irish bar in the rembrants that people had recomended to us,     we asked a taxi driver if he knew it and he said yes so we jumped in his cab and 25 mins later he dropped us off right outside this bar

we had a few beers and then decided to go on a pub crawl,  as we came out of the Irish bar and just across the road was the taxi rank were we got the 1st cab and there was the driver  

18 guilders to go across the road by taxi  absolutely brilliant  we were well had  

of course we showed our distaste to what the taxi driver did by going to the nearest coffee shop and getting wasted


happy days  

[Craig Trevain]

Could of been worse they stole a £16000.00 3 week old caravan off of me last week, cut all the hand breaks on our vans to get to it, got them on cam they don't mind cause they know their get away with it.

These are useless worthless vermin .

That is terrible, will the insurance cover it ?

I'm hoping so! We had the insurance recognised £120 security lock on it, which on camera we saw them remove that in 6 minutes. Also the insurance new I was storing it at my work premises. They shouldn't wriggle out!

[Scoop]

hahahahahaha......and you Brits call us Irish stupid???

I didn't feel stupid. I felt as if I'd been on stage helping with a magic trick.

The sad thing is that these guys don't have to do this for a living. If they set themselves up as WC's and went out canvassing they'd have 200 customers in a week. They were the most natural salesmen I've ever seen.

And don't tell me the Irish are never the victims of a sting. Ten years ago they joined the Euro and now they have £100 billion of debts and a junk status credit rating. Not bad for a population of 6 million.

Craig. Really sorry to hear your story. It's disgusting. Hope you get it all sorted.

Thanks for all the other comments - made me feel even better 

[RO-Sheen]

hahahahahaha......and you Brits call us Irish stupid???

I didn't feel stupid. I felt as if I'd been on stage helping with a magic trick.

The sad thing is that these guys don't have to do this for a living. If they set themselves up as WC's and went out canvassing they'd have 200 customers in a week. They were the most natural salesmen I've ever seen.

And don't tell me the Irish are never the victims of a sting. Ten years ago they joined the Euro and now they have £100 billion of debts and a junk status credit rating. Not bad for a population of 6 million.

Craig. Really sorry to hear your story. It's disgusting. Hope you get it all sorted.

Thanks for all the other comments - made me feel even better 

Keep you knickers on Scoop!  You fell for an obvious sting that that was screaming SCAM at you. In my opinion you were very nieve but pleased you can laugh at your error and have learn from it, but you are absolutely right that we bought (or should I say the Irish Government and many other european Governments around europe) into the single currency. It was a great while it lasted and made alot of millionaires, unfortunately for some they are in dire straits now with big debts they cant pay off. Lucky for me and my family we have done well and were sensible duing the good times and we all still have a good standard of living.   

[Scoop]

Keep you knickers on Scoop! 

Not having a go at you Rosh and glad to hear you're doing well. But I still disagree. It didn't scream scam. It screamed dodgy baccy. In buying it I was breaking the law so was already looking out for my own back. Lesson well and truly learned. I will never do anything like this again. (Not sure if it's illegal to pay a fortune for two sliced loaves tho'  )

[bobby p]

years ago an Irishman ripped me off . i rang up the police and told them the only name i knew him as was,,,guess what,,,    " Dodge "


better still,they cops knew who he was !

the head of the gypsy council later threatened to kill me  for dobbing in the famous Dodge

dodge got away scotfree in the end !   

[paul saunders]

I've just seen Paddy kicking the living daylights out of Murphy, all Murphy kept saying was "I didn't know the bread was in that bag"

[Scoop]

I've just seen Paddy kicking the living daylights out of Murphy, all Murphy kept saying was "I didn't know the bread was in that bag"

Love it! 

[H2GoKent]

Keep you knickers on Scoop! 

Not having a go at you Rosh and glad to hear you're doing well. But I still disagree. It didn't scream scam. It screamed dodgy baccy. In buying it I was breaking the law so was already looking out for my own back. Lesson well and truly learned. I will never do anything like this again. (Not sure if it's illegal to pay a fortune for two sliced loaves tho'  )

You know what they say, 'It's hard to con an honest man'