Japanese fooled in poodle scam
 

Please tell me this is a joke:

http://news.brisbanetimes.com.au/jap...75926-9pk.html

hahahahahaha

Those Nigerians are getting clever.

I don't see the problem, I'd much rather have a sheep than a stupid poodle.

+1

I'm amused that they complained about the animals NOT barking.

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Seriously, how could you press charges against this company? This has to be one of the best fraud scams ever.

" One couple said they became suspicious when they took their "dog" to have its claws trimmed and were told it had hooves."


Hahahahahaha

I wonder how they were brought into the country; as Pets or Livestock?

That line kills me. I don't care if one hadn't known what sheep looked like, but does it really look like a poodle, or any dog for that matter. Or is it possible I am just looking at the wrong breed of sheep. I am still trying to figure out what type of sheep were used for this scam.

I want to know what type of human was used for this scam.

And the story gets even better in which how this error first came to light:

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article....&in_page_id=34

Suddenly Paris Hilton seems semi intelligent.

That was in the original article. In fact, they get props for using the word 'crestfallen' in a news article.

wow..

Awesome.

Good point.

I don't think that Paris Hilton could have pulled off "Violent Cop," so cut the girl some slack.

LOL this is so funny. i hate poodles with a passion, and i hate the snobby women who walk around treating these "dogs" as if they were children. anyone dumb enough to pay 1600 dollars for a dog doesnt deserve that money in the first place. they dont even know what a poodle is but they will pay the money to be shiek and fashonable, dumb bi**h.

whats funny is i hardly even consider this a con. if the people wernt told it was a lamb, they would have gone thru thier whole life happy to have the "poodle" as a status symbol. it isnt like this was a cleverly made knock off

When questioned, the owner of one of the accused companies, Harold Lamb, responded to the allegations with a single word: "Baah!"

I find it amazing that POODLES are more expensive than sheep.

his last name is Lamb! lol too funny

I haven't seen a sheep in my entire life. :(

I would think it's understandable that Japanese urbanites could be conned into being sold the lambs passed off as poodles.

All well and good, but you'd think the prospective owners would, you know, do a little research and perhaps actually recognize what a poodle looks like, regardless of whether there are an abundance of sheep in Japan or not.

This story just blows my mind....

When you look out your window in Tokyo, you count how many sheep you see being walked by a Japanese woman. Then you can talk to me. Welcome to Hollywood!

Looks like it was everyone who read the original article who got fleeced. I personally can't believe anyone bought this in the first place...

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21629305-2,00.html

Damn it. I checked on Snopes and found nothing. Then I read 3 articles on this, so I assumed it was true. Oh well.....I have been fleeced and I will eat lamb over this.

It is. :cool:

Aye, I checked snopes this morning too and found nothing surprisingly, but I distinctly recall reading something very similar a few years ago, substituting Japan for some other nation and the sheep for some other animal. I e-mailed it to a Japanese friend of mine and he told me that he'd be surprised if there were even 1% of Japanese people who didn't know what a sheep looked like, let alone confusing them with a poodle.

dola

That it was the Sun in the UK that first reported this is a major warning flag, too. The amount of articles that end up on fark from the Sun containing wierd stories that then wind up in a ton of papers afterwards (all using the Sun as the original source) has me thinking that the Sun likes to have a bit of fun now and then.

I wonder if you can still get recently worn panties in vending machines over there.

Apparently, as of 2005, yes.

http://www.snopes.com/risque/kinky/panties.htm

awww. looks like someone sold me a sheep poodle ;(

Snopes is on the case now
http://www.snopes.com/critters/lurkers/poodlesheep.asp

Fooled me hook, line, and sinker.

I even forwarded on the link to friends and family.

Do we need to change the thread title to "FOFC fooled in fake poodle scam"? ;)

First Faith No More is coming back, now this? Can you people not do some fact checking before posting? I mean, c'mon.

I'm disapointed this isn't true at a level way out of proportion to what it should be.

Beautiful fake, tho. That was funny as hell. :D

SI

Sometimes I hate snopes.

If Paul Harvey said it, it must be true.

copycat thread would be:

Japanese food is poodle, scam