If a man in the street offers to sell you a Rolex, it is likely a worthless piece of metal. Similarly, if a man in the street offers to sell you an iPad, it is unlikely to be anything other than a piece of wood or a box of apples.
Or, in this case, potatoes. Britain’s Manchester Evening News reports that yet another variation on the unopened-iPad-box-that-turns-out-not -to-contain-an-iPad scam occurred in the very center of Manchester. Earlier this week, a man was approached by two obviously persuasive gentlemen at the city’s Piccadilly rail station. They offered to sell him an iPad for 250 British pounds (around $390). They wanted to meet him in a parking lot to complete the transaction. You might wonder that, already, there were enough facts to make the purchaser believe that he was soon to be fleeced. It seems not.