SHYSTERS, SCAM ARTISTS & SCUMBAGS

When I came home earlier this week there was a flier on the kitchen counter that had been taped on our mailbox. It was from a company called SAS Claims Service. In big bold capital letters shaded in yellow at the top of the flier was:

YOUR ROOF NEEDS REPAIR….CONSIDER YOUR OPTIONS

 

The entire business plan for this company is based upon driving around neighborhoods looking for houses with missing roof tiles and then convincing them to scam their insurance companies. The flier then goes on to try and scare you about mold, home price devaluation, expensive roof repairs, and evil insurance companies denying claims.

But guess who can come to my rescue?

That’s right, Myron Mendelow will fight for my right to commit insurance fraud. He doesn’t get paid until I get paid. He wants to be my advocate. Here is his pitch, directly from the flier:

We make the calls, file the claim and take on all the aggravation of negotiating with your insurance company adjuster on your behalf, to get you the FREE MONEY that you deserve.

Myron is going to get me some free money for my non-existent damage. He even promises to find more associated damages I didn’t notice.

A couple roof tiles did fly off during a storm several years ago. I had someone replace them, and the tiles are not the exact color of the original tiles. Myron assumed the different colored tiles were actually missing tiles.

Fast forward to Saturday morning. My youngest son and I were finishing up spreading the six yards of mulch dumped in my driveway earlier in the day. I was drenched in sweat and filthy from head to toe. Up the street comes a silver Mercedes who parks in front of my house. A wheeler dealer type gets out and boisterously tells me he wishes he were me. I’m thinking to myself WTF are you talking about dude. He explains that he lives in a condo and can’t get his hands dirty anymore.

I was in the presence of Myron Mendelow. His shirt was unbuttoned to show a massive gold star of david necklace. His picture should be next to the term Shyster in the dictionary. He then proceeded to make his pitch about my damaged roof. Even though I explained my roof was not damaged, he insisted he could get an insurance payout if I put my trust in him. He seemed exasperated that I didn’t want some of that FREE MONEY. After I made it clear he wasn’t talking to someone with interest in committing insurance fraud, he handed me the parting gift of a refrigerator magnet. Now when I’m grabbing a brewsky from the fridge, I can be reminded there is FREE MONEY with my name on it just a phone call away.

This is the kind of country we’ve become. Everyone has an angle to get something for nothing. Everyone is doing it, so why shouldn’t I get in on the scam. The oligarchs set the tone. Politicians set the tone. Everyone is on the take. Greed and avarice are considered legitimate goals of all Americans. The country revolves around fraud, corruption, scams, and swindles. Wall Street bankers rig the system, politicians accept bribes to pass legislation benefiting whichever special interest pays the most, millions watch shyster law firm commercials and realize they are eligible for Social Security disability, or have been wronged by some corporation. What’s a little food stamp fraud or earned income tax credit fraud? I really need to get with the game. This honesty and taking responsibility for my own life concept is really antiquated. I must have been mentally scared by those twelve years of Catholic teaching. Maybe Myron can help me file a claim.

 

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Be Prep
Be Prep

Not surprising at all when you realize that the other 99 took him up on his offer to steal under the guise of “it’s alright if you don’t have to get your hands personally dirty.” You can now say you are part of the 1% in a good way. 🙂

Kill Bill
Kill Bill

Myron probably sold used cars from flood areas at some point before this.

Persnickety
Persnickety

Yeah. What more is there to say, really, at this point.

I mean, two of the internets biggest ranting truth-tellers, Ann Barnhardt and Karl Denninger, have both posted essays saying, basically, fuck it – the sheeple are too damned stupid, and no matter what shocking and awful truths they reveal, no one gives a shit. Jim, I love your site, but I have a combination of admiration and puzzlement at your ability to keep dishing the rage and truth on these issues, day after day…. when NO…ONE…FUCKING… CARES…. And I don’t mean really “no one,” because I and 100 other TBP regulars care, but we represent something like 0.1% of the population, and the vast majority of sheeple are in the free shit crowd, one way or another.

Go Galt, or surfing, or whatever…. I know the whole thing is going to come crashing down catastrophically “someday,” but I don’t know when that day is, and I’m really tired of waiting for it. Until then I’m staying prepped, but to the extent I’m prepped and have enough to live on, I’m basically ignoring the coming tsunami and trying to maximize my beach days. I don’t see anything better to do. Hopefully the tidal wave wipes out the sheeple and we can rebuild with a better class of people. Yeah, right…

Econman

Myron hasn’t got anything on a central banker, who can “legally” counterfeit money & create it out of thin air.

Zarathustra

I think I am getting more anti-semitic by the day. That admission will probably please Llpoh but my attitude about Jews is becoming more like, “if you are not a criminal, prove it.”

IndenturedServant

Integrity. You either have it. Or you don’t.

Rick Caird
Rick Caird

@IndenturedServant

That is it. I am responsible for my integrity. Part of that is avoiding those with none. If they will screw the government, they will screw me, too.

Stucky

I love your personal stories, Admin! Good stuff.

I have a similar experience, but not nearly as funny.

Our driveway is fairly old … and ugly. Quite a few cracks, and even the beginnings of a sinkhole. Last year there’s a knock on the door … dude makes a comment about the nasty driveway …. says that’s his specialty …. tells me about Mr. So-and-so a couple blocks away who just had the driveway redone by him …. and the owner LOVES it !!! ……. and he can do my driveway RIGHT NOW …. for only $300 …. cash only, thank you.

There’s no signs or lettering on his white pickup truck …. I ask him for a business card … he has none, … “just ran out”, he says …. says he’s from Pennsylvania and just happened to be in the neighborhood for Mr. So-and-so.

I say to him that Ms Freud is not home so “let me make a couple phone calls” ….. of course, I did not … I peeked out the window …. and that little fucker (probably thought I was calling the cops) hightailed it the fuck outta there …. really, he RAN to his truck and peeled out. Too funny.

This jackfuk was probably going to coat my driveway with $20 worth of black paint. I saw a show, perhaps 20/20, where these “gypsies” -they called them, do exactly that … drive around and scam people …. driveway and roof work are their favorites. And they make SHITLOADS of money.

I don’t know who to blame. Them, or the general populace who think they can get something for nothing.

Persnickety
Persnickety

“I don’t know who to blame. Them, or the general populace who think they can get something for nothing.”

Both. And it seems to be the dominant mentality these days.

AWD

A greedy Jew? The country is full of ’em, especially lawyers (and banksters, and the MSM). When people see our “leaders” commit fraud, steal, and are pathological liars, they want to do the same. Our country is immoral from top to bottom. We’re doomed, once a society degenerates to the point ours has, there is no going back.

A. R. Wasem
A. R. Wasem

Tocqueville had it right. FDR implemented the socialist program and we’re now reaping the final harvest. BC-LR to all

Gloucestershire Lad
Gloucestershire Lad

Something for nothing? Looks to me that that applies to most everyone. And what is this something I hear you ask? Well that would be everything you see around you, the whole modern world. And the nothing? 150 years worth of almost free oil and gas. The free fossil fuels are mostly over so we will soon see just how much we all managed to achieve won’t we.

Gubmint Cheese
Gubmint Cheese

I always get that kind of shyster shit in the snail mail.

It’s usually in some pre-packaged pile of post card adverts, pushing for anything from debt consolidation, moldy basements, disability lawyers, bath fitters, cabinets, leaky window repair, black top ans sealing services, siding, insurances of all types, Etc, Etc…

The funny thing is all this crap mail addressed to my wife, not me.

Rise Up
Rise Up

For you Breaking Bad fans, here’s a little diddy you might recall…(did you know Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan is creating a new series featuring Saul?–now you do!)

Westcoaster
Westcoaster

Re: Stucky
They’re called “Travelers” (i.e. Americanized gypsies). Family and extended family that infest neighborhoods with repairs as you state, cash only, then disappear before their misdeeds are realized.
Used to be a conclave of them near Micanopy, FL. New luxury homes in a strangely gated community.

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