Re:A harassment campaign on Goodreads
by CommieBobDole on Monday January 06, 2020 @07:17PM
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I always assumed that the companies behind "we buy houses 4 cash" ads did exactly that - bought houses quickly and on cash terms at far below the market value from people who are in some sort of bad situation and would agree to a lousy deal in exchange for money now. Is that not what they do? Do they do something illegal instead?
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Re:A harassment campaign on Goodreads
by lotsofpulp on Monday January 06, 2020 @07:22PM
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The advertising signs placed on public property are illegal.
Re:A harassment campaign on Goodreads
by CommieBobDole on Monday January 06, 2020 @07:32PM
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Well, yeah, but the parent post talks about the police calling the number on the sign and using that to get a conviction, so I assumed that some sort of other crime was being committed, like maybe they steal the caller's bank info or sign them up for some scam service.
The reason the police don't do what the parent says is not because of difficulties with attribution of the act, it's because they care so little about the offense that they're not going to expend even the slightest effort to prosecute it. If they saw someone putting out signs, they might tell them to stop. Maybe.