• Arghblarg
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    999 months ago

    … and as the article fails to mention… what about the bloody TREES!? Imagine scammers cutting down a century-old, beautiful tree just to make a few hundred dollars. What a scummy, short-term, selfish thing to do. GRRRR.

    Stories like this make me consider that humans deserve to go extinct. Maybe raccoons and corvids will do a better job of caring for this planet.

    • @[email protected]
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      309 months ago

      If they actually cut them down, could you invoke TREE LAW? Wrongfully cutting down trees can lead to massive fines in the US, since they are so hard to replace.

    • @[email protected]
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      269 months ago

      Especially since you could pull this scam with a whole lot of other businesses that wold not result in cutting down trees.

      • El Barto
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        249 months ago

        Your mistake is thinking that scammers care about those things.

      • lad
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        19 months ago

        Maybe the point is to also reduce the selling price and buy the house with trees cut down for cheaper?

    • @[email protected]
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      139 months ago

      Raccoons and corvids? What, in the 30 minutes after they defeated the crabs, but before they evolved into crabs themselves?

      • Flying Squid
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        59 months ago

        Once everything evolves into crabs, we’ll be doing a lot better on this planet.

        That’s apparently our benevolent creator’s plan.

    • BlanketsWithSmallpox
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      29 months ago

      … In a news story about swaths of people getting scammed, finding it, stopping it, helping others and news notifying everyone possible… Humanity deserves extinction because of some scammers probably in India?

      Doomers are fucking stupid.