A 10-year-old Calgary boy is trying to understand how someone could be so mean, after a fake Kijiji ad led to the theft of his beloved skateboard ramp.
A ramp his dad made for him.
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Kijiji...aka, the online "wretched hive of scum and villainy"
When I was about 13 or 14 my friend and I used to post fake ads on the bulletin board at Co-op offering an Atari system and a bunch of games for a ridiculously low price, and put another buddy's name and phone number in the ad. We thought it was pretty funny. Then he turned the tables on us and a kid called asking about my Intellivision. It was apparent this kid had pleaded with his parents to buy him this really cheap Intellivision, and when I told him it wasn't for sale, he was crushed. I felt shame, and stopped pranking my buddy with fake ads.
This is much worse. I expect it's a disgruntled neighbour. I don't understand how people who live in a city of a million+ people can get that worked up over the sound of kids playing in the street. If you want total privacy and silence, go live in the country. Cities are a poor fit for hermit misanthropes.
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If this day gets you riled up, you obviously aren't numb to the disappointment yet to be a real fan.
Once that thing hits Kijiji as "Free" its as good as gone.
Reminds me of the time I posted a buy/sell item here with a Kijiji link to my "edit this item" page. Quickly was edited to be FREE and I had about a billion replies, since it was a car.
I'd like to hear the back story on that ramp. I'm betting this has been building for quite some time and there's some shadiness going on on both sides of the argument.
I have kids playing in my cul de sac all the time. Kids don't bother me or the noise they make, the parents do though. They don't seem to think their kids need to have any respect for other's people property, and when the kids do something they shouldn't or damage your property, the parents seem to think it's acceptable and shouldn't have to be held responsible for it because "they are just kids".
It all starts at the top, and i'm betting the beef with whomever did this is with the parents and not the kids.
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__________________ "The great promise of the Internet was that more information would automatically yield better decisions. The great disappointment is that more information actually yields more possibilities to confirm what you already believed anyway." - Brian Eno
Geezus. What a moron. Telling people what kind of hairstyle they are allowed to have is also cultural appropriation. She's stealing directly from the Nazis!
Talk about picking a stupid fight. The pothead at SFU is probably not your enemy, Madame Justice.
