"Bad, bad Leroy Brown. Baddest cat in this whole...um....town."

I'm bad. Well I was bad. Well I wrote an e-mail that was bad. I basically told someone they were going to eternal darkness, which if your religious is the worse thing you can say to someone (especially if you mean it). I think what's even worse is that I don't even feel bad. Let me explain.

Brad and I live in a hole. Ok it's a little more than a hole, I mean it does have a front door. Let's just say if someone wanted a really sweet walk-in closet, our house would be perfect. ANYWAY, we have decided to move. The nice (aka "livable") apartment complexes around town are too expensive and the cheaper ones are old and crawling with 60 years of sex, drugs and rock-and-roll. We have decided to do what any smart, capable young couple would do in our situation. Find another poor, out-of-luck bunch of sucker who is having

trouble trying to sell a house and offer to rent it for dirt cheap. We're just really giving like that. Anyways, I've been spending my free time on craigslist as of late and have been watching which houses can't sell. I saw this one ad for a GINORMOUS, beautiful home for rent for our perfect price range. Although part of me felt fishy about it I decided to shoot them an e-mail. I got this in return (feel free to scan, although the poor english is just truly great).

Hi,

Thanks for emailing me regarding the

house is still available, but presently I'm on business trip to West Africa. I bid for a portion of petroleum land

sometimes ago in West Africa and

fortunately I won, so I have to move quickly down to

Africa to have my company set up. I came over here with my wife, we both bought the house when we got married

. As soon as we settle down

here I had a thought of selling the house, so I have to look for an agent and getting

one we strike a deal but later my wife advised me on selling the house. I reasoned with her and accepted

her advice. So I contacted the agent back and requested for my keys and documents. Later we decided to have

the house rent out, we would have given the same agent this job also but the truth

of the matter is that the agent

would want to handle it professionally and the occupant may not be able to reason along with him later and moresome I do not have

anyone in the area I can

leave the keys behind with so that is why I posted ad myself. If you notice, you will discover

that the price we are offering is far below standard price and I this is enough for you to know

that we are not after the rental

fee but the absolute care for the property. I know there is no way I can be sure that you are the right person to live in the

house because we won't be able

to see physical before sending you the keys and the

documents to occupy the space. The house is available for as long as you want and if you drive by the house you may

see a sign there, you

have nothing to worry about it belongs to my previous agent so you have absolutely nothing

to worry about and you don't have to call them because they do not have access to the house anymore.

Please if you are ready now to occupy the house kindly provide the information belo

w for record purpose

Then he asked for more info,

like name and if you have any pets. OK so this is where I look dumb but whatever, I've done worse. I emailed him back

saying he should just stop looking because we were basically a god-given package and all he needed to do was

sign on the dotted line.

He then told me I need to wire him the first month's rent and

then he would send the keys. Luckily, before this email I had googled his name and number and found out that this was an over-seas scam that has been going on for over a year. You send the money and then you never hear from him again. I was beyond bugged! How dare he scam me! Not to mention that in two of his emails he had mentioned God to me as some sort of password and the answer was God loves his children. Weird! I was about to give up but instead I asked him where I should send the money. After receiving his full name and address I sent this. And yes, I sent it in red:

I can't believe you would even mention God when scamming hard working people for money. That sort of behavior is the

opposite of God. I am sending your information to the American police who have requested it and you will be

charged to the fullest extent of the law. If nothing else God will handle your judgement of scamming money from his

children when you die. I hope you enjoy jail. Or hell. Whichever comes first. p.s Nice english.

And I don't even feel bad.

P.s: Here's a picture of the house. I know, I know I should have known. I'm so easy.