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Thursday 10 April 2008, 5:35 pm

The Editor

Categories: Freaks, Weird shit

Tags: BarCodes, CoffeeMachines, scams, tomatoes

Hands up who’s ever taken the stalks off the hydroponic tomatoes so that they scan as shitty, cheaper tomatoes at the checkout?

Nobody, hey? Pack of filthy liars.

Well, this dude has moved well beyond the stalk-off scam but royally ballsed it up.

A man has faced court for allegedly tampering with a bar code to buy a $700 coffee machine for $30.

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It was alleged Podolak took bar codes from cheaper items and put them over more expensive ones before going to the checkout.

What a tool. Only the dumbest checkout pleb is going to look at an expensive coffee machine, look at the cash register readout displaying $30, look back at the expensive coffee machine, and not have a flag raise in their mind. This bar code idiot obviously started out removing tomato stalks (like smoking joints) and slid down the slippery slope to brazen and ridiculous bar code swaps (like heroin).

Let that be a lesson to you, GrodsReaders: recreational scamming will always lead to the hard stuff eventually.

24 Comments

Terry Wright (Thursday 10 April 2008, 6:48 pm) #

Hey Grodsters.

Tonight at 8.30pm on the ABC, there is a documentary well worth watching called Oasis. I had a bit to do with it via the youth homelessness report which came out yesterday. I have been handling the I.T for the main organisation involved for the last 2 years and this is part of the final result.

Really powerful doco.
The Editor (Thursday 10 April 2008, 7:25 pm) #

Thanks, Terry. I’ll check it out.
Ant Rogenous (Thursday 10 April 2008, 7:35 pm) #

Where abouts on the scale does the theft of a grape, a cashew or (heaven forfend) one of those big, fancy, juicy dates sit?
Bridgit Gread (Thursday 10 April 2008, 8:01 pm) #

An eye for an eye, a date for a date.
THR (Thursday 10 April 2008, 9:16 pm) #

Thanks Terry,

It’s a good doco, ’specially for the Leon Bertard types who insist - ‘But homeless, drug-addicted kids with mental health conditions chose to be that way!’…
Bron (Thursday 10 April 2008, 10:00 pm) #

Just watched it. Restores my faith in humanity, in a strange sort of way.
The Editor (Thursday 10 April 2008, 10:11 pm) #

That was a superb film.
Terry Wright (Thursday 10 April 2008, 10:23 pm) #

In the discussion after the film, there’s one of the directors of the organisation that I do work for (I won’t say who except he’s a Salvo) and although I have never met him personally I heard a cracker of a story about him.

Another director (non Salvo) who I report to told me that whilst walking together under Spring St, Melbourne they ran into John Howard and a few lackeys. They stopped and back slapped together with lots of head nodding … real politician stuff. When Howard had left, my guy said to the other director (Salvo), “so you’re mates with Howard”. The director responded, “Nah I hate the fucker!”

Even the Salvos hate him.
Ant Rogenous (Thursday 10 April 2008, 10:37 pm) #

Thanks for the tip, Terry. A most worthwhile film.
Bron (Thursday 10 April 2008, 10:38 pm) #

Haha, that’s good to know, Terry.

Hey, isn’t/wasn’t Major Brian Watters (name right?) a Sallie - and Howard’s right hand man in the “war on drugs”?
Terry Wright (Thursday 10 April 2008, 10:44 pm) #

Oh, don’t mention that cunt!!!
Bron (Thursday 10 April 2008, 11:18 pm) #

Wooops. A quick Google answered my questions anyway!

Back to the topic at hand - I have NEVER taken the stalks off hydro tomatoes ’cause I’ve never bought them. Pesticides are good for you. Cheap tomatoes swathed in chemicals are for me what spinach was for Popeye.

But if it’s marijuana, bush is best.
THR (Thursday 10 April 2008, 11:41 pm) #

It was Proudhon who said that property is theft.

Until his prophecies come true, every homeless kid should smash one CEO’s head.

It would make for a much more interesting earth hour.
Bron (Thursday 10 April 2008, 11:45 pm) #

Just saw Leon’s comments on your blog, THR, about the homeless choosing to be, er, homeless.

I couldn’t believe you when you mentioned it here earlier; I had to go and check.

My reaction? OMG!!!! NOOOOO WAAAAAY! WHAT THE FUUUUUCK?!
THR (Friday 11 April 2008, 12:05 am) #

Yep, he dserves a PhD in fucking moronhood.

Forget macroeconomics and capitalism, the homeless love to be homeless.

Don’t worry.
After the revolution, the likes of him will be put up against the wall and…

(made to hang out with ;;;;;;;;)
Bron (Friday 11 April 2008, 9:15 am) #

Vive la Révolution!
Bridgit Gread (Friday 11 April 2008, 10:53 am) #

After the revolution, the likes of him will be put up against the wall and… made to hang out with ;;;;;;;;

Hey, I’m all for class war and purges - but let’s not advocate crimes against humanity.
John Surname (Friday 11 April 2008, 12:03 pm) #

According to ;;;; “once you can dismiss stealing high value items from a shop as a mere scam you are already hooked on the moral equivalent of Uber-Heroin.”

Whaaaaat???
Bridgit Gread (Friday 11 April 2008, 12:24 pm) #

Don’t try to understand it, John, it’s beyond comprehension.
julie (Tuesday 20 May 2008, 10:24 pm) #

BARCODE SCAM…Get your facts right you moronic loser.Your website is a disgrace,a bunch of ego inflated wannabe’s casting judgement on situations you know nothing about.Get a life and stop wasting time on misinformed crap!!I only stumbled on this piece of shit website by it cropping up on a search it had no buisness to be in
The Editor (Tuesday 20 May 2008, 10:28 pm) #

Deary me, Julie. Not only are you a spelling, grammar and punctuation black hole, but you’re also a sarcasm black hole.
Damian (Wednesday 21 May 2008, 8:05 am) #

…and a fuckwit.
The Editor (Wednesday 21 May 2008, 8:08 am) #

By the way, straight to the pool room.
Damian (Wednesday 21 May 2008, 8:14 am) #

Julie’s using philliptravers’ keyboard, I think. Cheeky wondow licker she is.