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AKguy1985

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Chapter 4- Enroute
After giving a time frame and beginning the journey he started texting me about the the eta and asking me to make sure I gave him a heads up when I was 5 min away. This was several texts, like every 3 min. I tried calling since I was driving and he wouldn't answer. This sent up red flags. I began thinking he was using one of those text type apps.
So once I was close I decided for whatever gut feeling reason to drive the block once.
When I got about a block away and could see the house I sent the "5 minutes out" text.
The house sat just off a corner where the road has a kinda couldasac and turns north, across from the house sat two vacant houses with some big busses on the edge of the street.
Low and behold not 30 seconds after the text 2 guys(turned out to be kids) left his house and went into those bushes.
I was thinking "Well that's kinda strange."
I was on the fence if it was a coincidence or by design that this happened .
I went around the block and came back around and sent the text describing what I was driving. On my way back around a guy(the kid) waved me down while he was sitting in front of the house.
I pulled up and positioned my truck in a way my lights illuminated the bushes and I have almost full view of most of the area.
Chapter 5 - Damn Kids
When he stood up and I got a good look at him, I knew immediately it was a kid like 15 at the oldest.
Before he made it to the truck I stayed I needed to see his I.D. to verify age.
(Foot note- I carry 2 cell phones and I keep one on speed dial with 911 and my wife on the other on my headset when I do meet up most of the time.)
He said he forgot it in his house. I told him I needed to verify he was 21 before we went any further.
I then asked why two people came from his house and went into the bushes.
He told me nobody came from his house.
At this point I told him that I wasn't going to sell to him. He went on to start talking fast saying I didn't know the laws and in Oklahoma you don't have to be 21 to buy a handgun, and he just wanted to look at it and see if he liked it before he bought it.
I again told him I was not going to sell and he could tell his friends to come out of the bushes.
I informed him that what they were doing was very dangerous and if they try to rob someone of a gun they "victim" would be within their rights to use lethal force. I also told him that our whole interaction is being recorded, as I had someone on my headset and my other phone was on speed dial with 911.
At this point he decided to call for his 2 friends to come out of the bushes.
I drove away, I had put a post on armlist warning people of the number but so eone kept reporting it as spam.


The End........
Dang!!! That's nuts! I have had people on armslist ask me to deliver before. I won't do it.
 

AKguy1985

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I normally do, and I know I walked a razor thin line that time. I just genuinely thought it was a case of the person having some bad luck with their car.
Had a guy stand me up on a deal last night because he "got into a fight with his wife". Guy begged me to come back and offered $50 more than the agreed on price. His name on armslist is whodatd. Told him I was done and blocked his number. Guy can't even spell words.
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Had a guy stand me up on a deal last night because he "got into a fight with his wife". Guy begged me to come back and offered $50 more than the agreed on price. His name on armslist is whodatd. Told him I was done and blocked his number. Guy can't even spell words.
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Prolly needed the gat to off his GF.
 

Fredkrueger100

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I say have a 50 post limit to even be able to access the classified section. Most scammers ain’t gonna stick around to get a post count that high. And if they do, they are most certainly gonna be very short posts. People really need to look up the people they are thinking about dealing with. I always check the post count, when someone joined, and feedback before I deal with someone. And if there is any doubt I will read posts they have made. But I’ve learned if I am to that point there is no sense in dealing with the person. Now there are some that joined years ago but have very small post counts. But those are a small percentage I’m sure.
 

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