Selling meat out of a truck: scam?

Discussion in 'Cactus Cafe' started by suttree, Jan 3, 2008.

  1. suttree

    suttree 500+ Posts

    Today while I was at work a dude stopped at my house and asked my lady if she wanted to buy about $250 of meat. He gave her the "they gave me too much this morning and I'm just trying to sell it," which means he used to sell speakers out of a van.

    I didn't see the meat, and for all I know it was prime beef. However, I am more inclined to believe it was low-grade dog food.

    Anyone have experience with this? I have trouble believing most people would buy meat out of a truck from a total stranger.
     
  2. El Sapo

    El Sapo Bevo's BFF


     
  3. rage-a-holic

    rage-a-holic 250+ Posts

    scam. these morons tried to sell their crap at a bar/restaurant I worked at on Greenville. Our head chef laughed at them.
     
  4. Math Mudrat

    Math Mudrat 250+ Posts

    A couple years ago there were these guys that set up selling shrimp at a gas station that got torn down on Guadalupe, out of a cooler in the back of their car. They were there for a few days. I remember the price on their sign kept going down a little each day as the shrimp got funkier [​IMG]
     
  5. crayon1973

    crayon1973 500+ Posts

    That guy came to my house two days ago. I laughed at him.
     
  6. bularry

    bularry 250+ Posts

    it isn't a "scam" in the sense the meat is bad. I think the meat is graded, but it isn't "cheap" as they claim, nor is it "extra".

    i know some guys who did that year's ago. Its just classic door-to-door selling.
     
  7. idigTexas

    idigTexas 1,000+ Posts

    This has been going on for years. When I was in grad school in the mid-90s, I was living in Round Rock with a couple of roommates, and we actually bought some. None of us got sick, but it was disgusting. It was mostly pitifully thin cuts that had the texture of papier-mache. [​IMG]
     
  8. Nuclear Bear

    Nuclear Bear 1,000+ Posts


     
  9. hullabelew

    hullabelew 1,000+ Posts

    Over 10 years ago, someone stole a section of checks out of a box in my mailbox. They then went on a spending spree. One of the things the guy bought was a bunch of meat from some guy in a truck.

    When I filed the police report and affadavit with the meat company, the manager told me that the driver was going to be fired. He said his drivers were supposed to sell to their standard customers (not sure who they would be, I didn't bother to ask) but that some drivers would sell the stuff off the back of the truck and pocket the money. He said they generally used the same speech that the speaker guys used. Problem was, this poor bastard accept a stolen check.
     
  10. NCAAFBALLROX

    NCAAFBALLROX 1,000+ Posts

    Hasn't anyone noticed that I DId used the proper spelling of "papier"?

    Good on ya, sir.

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  11. LosIllini

    LosIllini 250+ Posts


     
  12. notreally

    notreally 1,000+ Posts

    so the speaker truck enterprise has moved on to meat? haven't had this one come up yet.

    hell, i'd probably buy some.
     
  13. DCLonghorn8

    DCLonghorn8 250+ Posts

    We have these meat-folks around here as well.
     
  14. GHOST HORN

    GHOST HORN 100+ Posts

    i worked in a steakhouse that only sold usda prime beef. so, when these guys in their truck approached me in the middle of a neighborhood, i managed to talk my way over their great steaks.
     
  15. savvy

    savvy 100+ Posts

    where are you?

    a tractor trailer full of beef that had tested positive for e. coli was stolen in the DFW area on Dec. 28.
    The Link
     

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