Craigslist Paranoia

I had another crazy Craigslist adventure. this time buying a bike let's talk about. that. we're Adam from Independence Missouri. good mythical morning good mythical. morning today's episode is brought to. you by royalty-free music library comm. will we get the music that we use in the. background of the videos that we make. for you you like that it was okay kind.

of sensational but it was I think it was. still from the heart thanks for joining. us today good mythical morning no matter. what time of day it is when you're. watching this it is your mythical. morning people witness history being. made what we are making history right. here well I think everybody doing. anything is making some kind of history. the question is it significant Elstree. all I meant was we're doing something. that is entering into the past. constantly entering into the past hey.

look we were entering into the past. right now and we are entering into the. future think about making history that's. what the president is linked it's it's. nothing it's just simultaneously. entering into the past and entering to. the future and that's what I'm saying I. write a book about this well you are. experiencing it with us right present. doesn't exist and that is by RJ. mcLaughlin that is special I just call. myself mcLaughlin i mispronounced my own. last name because i'm thinking of myself. as a writer. it's mcLaughlin I what I'm really trying. to do is I'm trying to focus this on the.

show and kind of cast vision for what. people are part of it's not really about. how you pronounce your name I'm trying. to launch my writing career yeah exactly. and that's not really what this is about. this is about them and this experience. it's not about you and the book you will. never write using a pseudonym which is. almost your last name just pronounce. Metis technically that's not a student. it's the same name but pronounce. different yeah okay call that I don't. have to stop going on Craigslist is that. gonna be the conclusion of this well. neither one of us have had good. experiences if you've been with us as.

your mythical best you know that. Craigslist is not good to us and it. seems like that's happening again I. don't think this was Craig's fault okay. um first of all I decided you know. recently. I had a birthday I had a birthday happy. belated birthday and my I got some money. from relatives I'm still like a child I. received money from relatives and my. gift is still in the mail it's coming. let's just delayed yeah got caught up. somewhere yeah and I always make the.

decision it's first of all this is I've. been this way since I was a kid you can. ask my mom but I'm not gonna give you. any contact information to do that but. you could ask my mom I've been this way. since I was a kid nine you may give the. know I'm 1-0 don't give the number I. have taken my birthday money and. immediately spent it unlike you mr. miser who usually takes his birthday. money and like puts it in what they call. the nest egg I spend my birthday money. at Christmastime and then I spend my.

Christmas money and my birthday which is. in June that's kind of how my my thing. goes so I've had my heart set on a new. bicycle in fact to be specific a new. mountain bike and the reason I'm doing. this is because you and our collective. friend Nick have just been going off the. two of you having a blast. mountain biking yeah leaving me a home I. feel left out. once again you're making this about you. so I decided I didn't mean to hurt your. feelings I decided I want to be a part.

of your biking crew is that what you. call yeah we well it's it's a secret. name for our gang and I haven't yet. shared it with you I decided I want a. mountain bike with you okay and I also. decided that I'm really out of shape I. mean I didn't decide that I just. realized that I'm very out of shape and. I need to do something that will get my. heart rate up to some you know beyond. what the resting heart rate so you turn. to Craigslist and so I I researched this. and I figure out what bike I'm gonna get. and then I know that I need a big bike.

because I'm a big man I need 29 inch. tires it's just I'm going all out and I. start looking to only find like two on. Craigslist and I find one and I see the. guy has his number and I text him first. of all I start with the text mm-hmm you. know I don't need to talk to this guy. last night let's not get too ahead of. ourselves here just text him say okay. saw your bike on Craigslist interested. in it I'm over here in Sherman Oaks. you're in he's in Studio City one kind. of take a look at it three hours later. he. takes me back he says yes still.

available you can come tonight after. nine o'clock my on it's a little bit. late to go over somewhere but you know. maybe you got he's just getting in late. whatever he wants to sell you something. under the cloak of Darkness so that's. your first red flag. so um nine o'clock rolls around I'm. headed I'm heading over that way I get a. text from him he says I'm home now he. text me like 8:45 I'm home now mmm I'm. like I'm on my way he sends me the. address I'm using my little maps on my.

iPhone I'll go over there down Studio. City and I get on this road it's dark. I'm in a unfamiliar part of town and I'm. riding right next to the LA River which. you know the LA River is really just a. big culvert it's a cement open ditch. yeah and there's these houses on my left. and then there's the river on my right. and then he gives me an address an even. number address and all the houses on. this side of the road are odd he gives. me like 2003 8 and it's like I come to.

2002 2 0 3 9 and I'm like oh no I might. be the victim of some kind of I think I. might be the victim of some kind of scam. here he sent me tweeted that or he's a. homeless man who lives on the river. yeah so I'm like looking and I'm looking. through the fence and looking at it is. he wants to meet me on the street maybe. he's biking to this location where he's. gonna hand the bike off so I then he'd. have to walk home I'm getting a little. suspicious as at this point so then I.

text him and I say hey man I can't find. your house because you're are you on the. north side of the south side of the. river because I can't I'm on the right. Road but your house doesn't exist no. response so I sit there and wait in my. car for about 10 minutes just waiting. for a text back no text back I'm like. let me let me go on the other side of. the river so I go down a little bit. across the bridge I come down the other. side of the river and I realized oh it's. the same name of the same road I'm like. oh this is just me this is on me I'm. making a mistake here I come up to it's.

an apartment complex that's the address. that he gives me ok so then I text my. said Oh fine he still hasn't text me. back. Hey Dude finally found your house his. name's Peter he said on the honest text. that's also suspicious. I just found your house I'm parked out. here next to a fire hydrant because. there's no available spaces please meet. me outside so I could take a look at the. bike no response it's 15 minutes after. he's decided that he's gonna you just. cut your phone off if you want to. continue to receive texts I'm sorry is.

that distracting a little bit I'm just. trying to conduct business over here and. texting just keep going with your story. so I mean I'll just I'll handle it for. you it's still gonna buzz over there. okay I'm still gonna read it so I decide. I'm gonna I'm gonna call this guy. I'm gonna call Peter I'm gonna figure. out what's going on I call him he. doesn't answer the phone so leave a. message I'm late hey Peter uh this is. Rhett I I've been texting you about the. bike because I want to take a look at.

and I'm just out here waiting for you he. said he was on his way home he said he. was home well texted me and then I just. hang up and then I wait another ten. minutes and then I'm like this guy is I. text him again I'm like dude what's the. deal can I guess what's happening I. thought that I was the victim of what. happened to you he is selling the bike. to someone else while you're waiting out. front you're gonna see that bike come. out the front of that apartment complex. with another dude upon it and then I. make a decision and then you have to.

attack him did I make a decision I am. NOT leaving I'm not bowing out of this. gracefully you're gonna you were just. like saying it's gonna be a bidding war. you're gonna find it no I start figuring. out I started thinking I'm gonna go. inside and I'm gonna talk to the first. person who said where's Peter what part. of it is Peter in because I'm not going. to be screwed over like this I'm not. gonna let what happened to link happen. to me and I know what's up which was. they saw somebody sold the thing out for. money and then I call him back and I'm. like and I've changed my tone I'm like. Peter this is Rhett but he didn't answer.

this is voicemail voicemail what's going. on man you changed your tone on a. voicemail what's going on man it's a. voice mails not gonna answer you like. what is happening what are you doing to. me I'm not asking him it's a rhetorical. question it's a voicemail message oh. yeah hey then I hang up and then I'm. like 100 calls back. finally probably been what 20 minutes. now 30 minutes oh he's like hey man.

sorry man my phone's been dying phone's. been dying how did your phone die. constantly he didn't sell it to the. other guy and now he's calling he says. I'll be right down he comes down he's. got the bike seems to be a pretty cool. guy Peter seems to be a pretty cool guy. he's got a really cool bike and then. really cool bike this is which is what. you're after. like with tassels in a bat you were like. searching Craigslist for really cool. bike and this is when I realized I know. nothing about I did a little bit of. research but I basically this is like.

buying a car he's like so uh you want to. ride it and I'm like in my jeans and. like a you know I'm not ready to ride a. bike but I kind of figured that was part. of the deal but it's dark out there. there's no street lights. he's like the tires are a little low but. you can get on it's not like get on it. and it's this is when it's a little bit. weird cuz then I'm just a grown man. riding a bike around another man who's. trying to sell me the bike right. and I almost wreck because a it's dark. and B the tires are really low and so I. like kind of go off the curb a little. bit and then again you don't know how to.

ride a bike I'm learning and so then I. go back up to him and I'm I think I. learned nothing by what just happened. first of all I'm thinking to myself I. know nothing I gained you know new image. break and you have to slam the the. suspension and you have to look at the. gears and you have to nod your head well. he was like I've ridden the thing five. times and I did I looked at the review. of this type of bike online and it was a. good reviews and stuff so then I'm just. like I'll take it I'll take it and he's. like you sure you don't want to see it.

in the light and I was like yeah that's. a good idea to see it in the light yes. so then he says all right Lee and so we. go into the garage he opens up the the. under side garage sure and then and then. the gate closes behind me and then I. think he's gonna kill me. right but he didn't he did not kill me. spoiler alert he sold me the bike I now. have a bike and I'm okay I don't think. he was trying to screw me over I think. it was just I was projecting on him I. was assuming things about him I'm glad. that you did all this rip but I mean. you're operating on under the assumption.

that Nick and I are going to let you. into our game I mean I just think it's a. little presumptuous for you to say well. I feel left out I'm buying a. like so that I can be in your gang but. you know you didn't you you didn't talk. to us we haven't even told you about the. application process we've got to see the. bike we've got to see how cool it looks. we've got to see you on the bike is how. scooters uh it's got stickers on it they. can put stickers on it got to see your. helmet to see if it's cool-looking and. we got to we got to see what kind of. well you know what kind of skills you. have with this thing I mean we can't be.

associated with I mean we're friends. but there's a process here that's all. I'm saying well I'll tell you what the. process is a little presumption I'm. gonna find out where your mountain bike. and I'm gonna show up and follow you. yeah I mean we're in like a third wheel. situation well I guess I should say uh. sixth sixth wheel a fifth and six six. wheel situation here and it's just not. it's just not as simple as well yeah you. made it made of be link pics rats pocket.

um well it's gonna be a little awkward. I'll get I'll give you a little easier. access hey uh your phones over here. you left it over here and you got a lot. of texts while we were filling that. episode hey man look I found your wallet. you must have dropped it somewhere. this one has some cash in there. well like $31 what no it wouldn't know.

of it oh I'm getting a phone call that. phone you I'll trade you $31 for my. phone cha-ching. hello this is Linc. Oh.