didn't momma teach her anything?

[vaskidmark]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/15/anthony-maldonado-date-burglary-arrested_n_1348412.html?ref=miami&icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl5%7Csec3_lnk2%26pLid%3D143952

Using the alias Florenciano Valentino, Anthony Maldonado, 18, met Kelley Galbraith through social networking site Badoo before talking on the phone and eventually meeting in person, according to the arrest report.

They hung out once at her home, where police believe he spotted the items that would later be stolen.

On February 25, a friend in a black car dropped Maldonado off at Galbraith's home and the pair left for Applebee's. On the way, Maldonado stopped at a gas station to use her iPhone 4S and also borrowed it twice at the restaurant.

Finally, he stepped outside with the phone for a third time and never came back, reportedly leaving Galbraith to cover the bill.

While the two were at dinner, the driver of the black car broke into Galbraith's house, possibly through a window left open by Maldonado when using the bathroom before leaving for the restaurant. The intruder stole $5,000 worth of high-end items from the unsuspecting woman, including an iPad, Apple laptop, and big-screen TV.

 

While meeting on social media may no longer be the "clue" it used to be, needing to drive your date who was dropped off by a "buddy" ought to be one.  What?  He could not get his buddy to agree to loan him the car?

 

Comments from the peanut gallery?

stay safe.

[RevDisk]

Eh, this is why I generally don't meet folks from the internet at my place first.  Unless I've known them virtually for a very long time and/or there is a large community of mutual friends that could provide a healthy social stigma if anything untowards happened.

[AmbulanceDriver]

Eh, this is why I generally don't meet folks from the internet at my place first.  Unless I've known them virtually for a very long time and/or there is a large community of mutual friends that could provide a healthy social stigma if anything untowards happened.

Dude...  I think that anyone that, you know, actually *knows* anything about you would be monumentally stupid to try anything.  First, they wouldn't ever be able to break in to your place.  Second, assuming they got in, I somehow doubt they'd get out....  Ever.   

:D

[lee n. field]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/15/anthony-maldonado-date-burglary-arrested_n_1348412.html?ref=miami&icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl5%7Csec3_lnk2%26pLid%3D143952

 

While meeting on social media may no longer be the "clue" it used to be, needing to drive your date who was dropped off by a "buddy" ought to be one.  What?  He could not get his buddy to agree to loan him the car?

 

Comments from the peanut gallery?

stay safe.

<shrug>  Learning experience.

[RevDisk]

Dude...  I think that anyone that, you know, actually *knows* anything about you would be monumentally stupid to try anything.  First, they wouldn't ever be able to break in to your place.  Second, assuming they got in, I somehow doubt they'd get out....  Ever.   

True, and I now have plenty of land for ... landscaping.  And lack of LOS for neighbors to see anything.

But still, part of being a professional is doing the right thing, every time. My contractor got nervous when he saw the grave shaped mechanic pit in the center of my garage surrounded by plastic tarp.

[wmenorr67]

True, and I now have plenty of land for ... landscaping.  And lack of LOS for neighbors to see anything.

But still, part of being a professional is doing the right thing, every time. My contractor got nervous when he saw the grave shaped mechanic pit in the center of my garage surrounded by plastic tarp.

 

[vaskidmark]

<shrug>  Learning experience.

That the new way of saying "Darwin got cheated"?

stay safe.

[lee n. field]

That the new way of saying "Darwin got cheated"?

My thought was, "she's alive and undamaged", therefore, learning experience.

[MechAg94]

Eh, this is why I generally don't meet folks from the internet at my place first.  Unless I've known them virtually for a very long time and/or there is a large community of mutual friends that could provide a healthy social stigma if anything untowards happened.

This is mainly what I don't understand.

1.  She knew he didn't have a car.
2.  She also now knows he doesn't have a cell phone either.
3.  Instead of meeting him at a resturant or picking him up, she lets him talk her into coming to her home? 

IMO, anyone worth meeting is likely to have #1 or #2 covered or dealt with one way or the other.  If not #2, they certainly wouldn't be borrowing your phone multiple times.

[MechAg94]

I guess I have to add other reasons he wasn't such a great catch after the fact:

4.  He apparently gave his real name to her allowing her to track him down.
5.  Even if he did steal her phone, the cell company would have records of who he called using her phone. 

[MechAg94]

I'm thinking she was going to be stuck with the dinner bill either way.

From the comments.   

[BlueStarLizzard]

Only internet person I met was from here, so after meeting and having lunch with him, I did agree to get in his car to ride to the range, cause I figured having the entire board hunting him down was enough of a deteraint against even thinking of treating me with anything less then total respect.
And he could trust me for the same reason.
 

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

Only internet person I met was from here, so after meeting and having lunch with him, I did agree to get in his car to ride to the range, cause I figured having the entire board hunting him down was enough of a deteraint against even thinking of treating me with anything less then total respect.
And he could trust me for the same reason.
 

i'd be more worried for him

[BlueStarLizzard]

i'd be more worried for him

Don't worry. He survived.
 

[230RN]

My contractor got nervous when he saw the grave shaped mechanic pit in the center of my garage surrounded by plastic tarp.

That's when you said, "And your estimate was how much, again?"

[RevDisk]

That's when you said, "And your estimate was how much, again?"

Actually I said, that is a darn reasonable offer.  And it was