Ever see a couple guys who look like meth-heads selling meat out of a pick-up?

[NNN0LHI]

My brother said he had one of this companies trucks in his driveway the other day with a couple of guys banging on his door. Rather than answer the door he looked up the name of the company on the side of the truck and found this about the company below. He didn't answer the door. I don't think I will ever buy meat out of the back of a pick-up truck either.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/340509/my_personal_experience_with_direct_pg2.html

My Personal Experience With Direct USA Meat

August 12, 2007 by Shannon Frye

It was a very warm day outside that day. I would guess it was somewhere around 94 degrees. I understand if the meat got thawed out because they stood around with the meat in the heat for an hour while talking to us. They placed that meat back into the freezer and gave us a different box of meat. They gave us a brochure which a website and phone number. Before the men left they took back the brochure. The man cashed the first check which was posted for the next day, about 10 minutes after he left. After dealing with all the meat that smelled like onions and was extremely bloody we threw the meat away and wen't grocery shopping.

The only meat that we actually did eat was the t bone style steaks. After eating them for a week or so I noticed that we were all feeling the side effects. All of us had horrible (unbelievable) stomach cramps and pains. We threw the rest of the meat away and I called the company to explain all the problems.


Watch for more of these scams too:

http://www.the-signal.com/news/article/10968/

Risky business: Officials warn homeowners of unlicensed contractors

By Brian Charles
Posted: March 23, 2009 1:48 a.m.
Updated: March 23, 2009 4:55 a.m.


A sting operation has netted seven alleged illegal contractors working in the Santa Clarita Valley, and state officials are warning homeowners to beware of hiring unlicensed workers.

"Many consumers don't realize the risk they take when they hire a phony contractor to work on their home," said Steve Sands, registrar for the Contractors State License Board in California.

"With the tough economic times, unlicensed operators seem to be even more aggressive in their methods of going after business," Sands said.

[rug]

1. No but I've read their posts about killing pirates.

[YOY]

2. "Direct USA Meat"???

Oh shit, that cannot be good.

[arcadian]

3. I've seen thse guys all over the place.

Obviously not the same guys. Do they operate like the door to door magazine subscription people?

[DS1]

4. "we threw the meat away and wen't grocery shopping"? "wen't"?

I give up on people.

[Ikonoklast]

9. Sigh. Some people make mistakes whilst typin'g.

[DS1]

11. Fin'e. Im D

I'll put apostrophes after between every n and t. Not that we spend all day ripping on how illiterate the Freepers are.

[Quantess]

18. You didn't mention the run-on-sentences. The poor grammar gave me trouble, too.

It made it harder to read.

[timtom]

24. You misspelled "iconoclast"

<snicker>

[On the Road]

5. I Had a Maintenance Guy

who needed money and apparently pulled reminiscent of this:

-Drove his motor scooter to a bulk meat place.
-Wrote a bad check for $500 worth of beef.
-Carried it back home on the scooter (can't imagine how).
-Hacked it up and sold it to his neighbors for a profit.
-Took the proceeds and made good on the check before getting sued or arrested.

I know this because for some reason he printed up checks with my number on them and I got an enraged call from the meat store owner. He is now in prison, by the way, for signing his father's name to a check to buy the scooter.

[DCKit]

17. Yet all he needed to do was cut up the scooter and sell the pieces for enough to cover the check.

It's a shame this guy was just beginning to "get it". Sounds like he could have had a fabulous career in stocks or banking.

On Edit:

Re-reading what I wrote, this pretty much explains the shit storm we're undergoing: Bankers and Wall St. buy a bunch of shit, cut it up (to dilute it) then resell it for an insane profit.

That's exactly what coke and heroin dealers do too.

[lyonn]

6. Door to door salesmen are scary

Through the years I have had those trucks come by with youngish type men selling meat usually. I live in the boonies, you must open gate and cross a cattle guard to enter our property. My first thought is they are casing the place and if no one is home empty out what they can. Just guessing.

[MO_Dem]

7. We had an experience last summer

Shortly after 5 p.m., an older minivan, unmarked, with license plates from a neighboring state (2 hrs. away), went through our little subdivision. At our house, the driver stayed in the vehicle, the other young man rang the doorbell, carrying a medium sized, unmarked white box. Hubby answered the door and the guy said they'd just finished their sales route and had one box of frozen steaks left over and would sell it to us at a discount rather than let it spoil. Hubby was about to let him in to show us the contents, when I stepped up and said no, we had no room in our freezer. The guy looked really surprised and annoyed that I blocked the door. For a second, I thought he was going to push his way in anyhow, but instead he stepped back and tried to give a sales pitch. I gave a firm 'no', and they left. I was convinced that they were scammers or thieves or maybe worse.

[DKRC]

23. Had a similar experience

about 15 years ago in rural Alabama. Same spiel, but it was a man & woman team. They tried to push their way into our house when I said we didn't want their goods. The man told me he'd take a look at our freezer & see if he couldn't find room. He stepped into what he thought was my personal zone, which works with some people I guess, but I didn't step back. I told the woman over his shoulder if they came into our home they weren't coming out. She grabbed him by the shirt & they hustled back to the truck.

:evilgrin:

[Ron Green]

8. I saw a couple of guys who looked like meatheads

selling meth out of a pickup.

[Warren DeMontague]

10. It's bad enough when they're trying to sell speakers.

Meat? Yuk.

[tularetom]

12. In what maybe a related story a couple of guys who looked like meth heads

Knocked on the door last week and offered to buy a bull from us.

[MineralMan]

13. I am unfriendly in an extreme way to this type of door-to-door

stuff. Many of these scams are set up to case neighborhoods, finding out who is home during certain hours and who is not. I cannot imagine anyone buying meat from some random meth head in a pickup. I simply cannot.

When they come to my door, they meet an angry, mean-looking guy with a full beard, who has just run up the stairs from my office the basement of my house. After inquiring abruptly about their reason for knocking on my door, I explain that they are not welcome on my property and that I will be telephoning the police about their selling door to door without a license. Generally, they get back in their vehicles and seek another area, proving that I was right about them.

On the other hand, I never let a kid selling stuff for a school leave without a big smile and money in hisher hand.

[Stinky The Clown]

14. I've heard some peop'le sell pickup's out of cow's' asses'

I guess those would be th'e opp'site of your brothers' guy's.

[Ikonoklast]

16. We'll play'ed, si'r.

:applause:

[flvegan]

15. The pitbulls and the "Vegan" bumpersticker keep them out of my yard.

[Stinky The Clown]

20. A man after my own heart!

:rofl:

[EFerrari]

19. I hope one of them isn't my kid. Haven't seen him for 2+ years

and that's because he's on it again. He could sell you your own car out of a truck. :(

[formercia]

21. You can't beat our meat.

was their motto.

[TheMightyFavog]

22. Sounds like a scene from Trailer Park Boys.

"Shouldn't we be getting Cory and Trevor to do this, Boys?

[Catherine Vincent]

25. After Hurricane Ike, we had a guy going through out neighborhood

selling meat. I kindly said no and he moved on. That was the first time I heard of someone selling meat door to door.