This is World's Greatest Con.

I'm Brian Brushwood.

I think I was 20 years old when this happened

and it was outside of a Home Depot parking lot.

It was a white van pulls up, dude jumps out in a vague

uniform, not really a uniform, but the kind of jump suit that anyone from an

exterminator to a ghostbuster would wear,

spun this tale about how they had these studio monitors,

high-end monitors that were supposed to go to a local strip club.

I did note the strip club, so I knew that part wasn't a lie and it seemed like it wasn't a

lie that they were fancy monitors I mean they they looked like big speakers dude

even showed me a magazine article pointed to a price that said $2,000 per unit.

Told me a story about how they were supposed to be four ordered but he had six instead

and the rest were gonna be you know shipped back and I to myself, there is no way any of this is true.

These are stolen speakers. And in that moment, I had already begun to rationalize. I was already thinking about sweet class warfare

while getting ahead myself. Within 15 minutes we both agreed on $300 for the pair of them.

I went to the ATM with these assholes.

I withdrew the money, gave him $300,

and thanked them, and then turned to my friend and mowed the words, oh my God, because I had just stuck

it to the man.

I had just bought stolen studio monitors, and I was so freaking stoked.

Brought him home, turn it up very loud. Very impressed with myself.

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