Craigslist car sale con sparks shoot-out
A MAN WAS apparently shot in the arm during a stand off with police over a Craigslist car fraud fiasco in Vancouver, Washington.
Details are a little shady, mainly because all witnesses interviewed by the news site, katu.com, are entirely incomprehensible.
One young man is quoted as saying "My mom, we just got back from school and then all of a sudden we saw these cop cars and then my mom went home and I just stayed here." Which, apart from the fact that a mother abandoned her son at a shopping mall and drove off, tells us very little. The witness, Tyler Thenthongkham, goes on to say: "And there was like a guy in the bush over there." Intriguing.
The web site then goes on to tell the sad story of Sergio (no last name supplied), who apparently got defrauded out of a Nissan Xterra on Craigslist. Even sadder is the fact that Sergio too, seems somewhat incapable of expressing himself in comprehensible fashion.
"I received a call Monday afternoon that they wanted to buy my truck", he spluttered, adding: "So they show up, we test drive it and they said 'well, we're going to go to the bank'. They go to the bank, get me a cashier's check and I say OK. As soon as they leave, I was like 'oh man, something's wrong.' So the next day, first thing in the morning, I went to the bank and I told them I got a cashier's check and I think it's fake."
At this point, Sergio apparently decides to file a report with the police.
The police, who probably had too many doughnuts to chomp their way through, did nothing, so Sergio and a friend decided to do a bit of investigating on their own. The pair managed to track down a Nissan Xterra for sale on Craigslist with the same phone number the fraudsters had apparently used before. They immediately took their findings to the police, who dis-spiritedly put down their half eaten doughnuts and set about laying a trap for the not-so-cunning con men.
The police went online posing as buyers, a trick the car thieves fell for. They agreed to go through with the sale at a spot just south of the Vancouver Mall. Always a clever idea, setting up a sting in a public place where hundreds of innocent bystanders can sit around and watch the action.
In predictable fashion, the criminals baulked when they realised they were being set up by police and the driver put his foot down on the accelerator. " During that interaction, the suspects attempted to flee and then struck the officer, we believe, intentionally," said Chris Sutter the Vancouver Police Department's most eloquent officer.
A shoot-out ensued and, from what we can gather, one of the criminals was shot in the arm. The other was arrested. The ill fated copper hit by the stolen car is also apparently doing ok, and will be back to his doughnuts in no time. So all's well that ends well. µ
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As the American version of English takes a nose-dive into oblivion (I can hear Harrison Ford explaining the "street talk" of 2029 in Bladerunner) Americans will only be able to communicate via text-messaging in the future.
Genetically, Americans have the necessary DNA to grow a second thumb on each hand for this purpose .
I'm pleasantly surprised that there were any coherent thoughts at all and that full words instead of acronyms were used...
But what kind of donuts were they eating?
OMG i can believe the stupidity of everyone involved in this! 

Those quotes are classic! I LOL'd. And a mother leaving her son at a shoot out? the cops meeting a criminal at a 'mall'? 

Yanks are such a laugh.
Second time my hometown here has made TheInuirer.net in the last month and a half or so.
Behold "The former hometown of Tanya Harding".
The name behind this town hasn't changed a bit. Strictly full of white trash.
This place is such a waste sometimes - I need to move probably.
A slow news day I presume...
Here are a few things I can say (as a Yank not offended by the rest of the world making fun of us....we deserve it) with reasonable certainty: There are no upper or lower limits on human intelligence; and, probably to the chagrin of other English-speaking countries, the crap English and moronic "spelling" happening here in America (home of the brave, the semi-free, the democracy-spreaders (yeah, right), yadayadayada) will spread widely. So good luck stopping it from "impacting" (instead of affecting) YOU. That is, until Mandarin becomes the "international" language. PS: Also, as a Yank, I'd like to apologize to the whole damn world for George Bush.
I'm like really awesome tired of the way you limey's are always like making fun of us yanks and stuff cuz we can't talk so good or use proper sentence structure or even use like paragraph breaks and stuff. You know?
Just to say that the city of Vancouver is located in British Columbia (a province) of Canada. Washington state (USA) is nearby though.















Welcome to Vancouver, Washington, USA.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Vancouver,+WA,+USA
@ B:

Dude, part of this story is about American's dire use of English... You're not helping our case. ;-)

I'm waiting for this to appear on YouTube. :-)
There actually is a Vancouver Washington, just north of Portland Oregon.
slurpee, you might want to check a map, or google before you say something stupid next time...

http://www.cityofvancouver.us/Default.asp
One is in BC and the other is in Washington...

How about that!?
I usually peg Canadians a little higher than Americans on the civilization ladder, but I don't know who to insult first: the morons who acted on the info (in the story) or the morons who think Vancouver is in the USA (in the comments)...
There is actually Vancouver, Washington.. near the southern border with Oregon. Less famous than Vancouver, BC, Canada...
Believe it or not i have met just as many british people that manage to mangle the english language just as bad. But i assume this is because im british and i have met very few yanks.

I think it's more of a example of why you should always be carefull selling your vehicle privately so you dont have to worry about how efficient the police are.
Well this typifies the state of the populous today. The only sentences they can understand are custodial ones.
If it makes you feel better the UK masses are much brighter either, the only difference is they generally weigh less.
The thing that gets me the most is that these idiots are allowed to vote, when most of them are too stupid to even breathe without reminders.
I'm sitting here in Vancouver right now. Vancouver,USA was established long before Vancouver, Canada.
It's a great place to live! 
Sorry...I've traveled all over Europe and it is definitely the source of all White Trash in the universe. My favorite...the guy in the Milan rail station wearing a speedo, a filthy leg cast with what looked like a festering ax wound nestled in his nasty Robert Plantish looking hair. His "lady" was beyond description. Every time I see the "el trashe blancos" in the USA, I am thankful that we have them instead of Euro White Trash.

Also...note the name of the victim in this story. More dumb ass Asains and Eastern europeans bringing their primative ways to the USA. No shortage of those monkeys in the UK, Eh?

Europe in general and the UK in particular the source of sophistication in the world?? Forget it, your as common as everyone else if not more so.