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Originally Posted by sealbeater
This presumes an assumption of knowledge of the crime in question, which I personally find disturbing.
If I buy a set of power tools cheaply, it's unreasonable to assume I would have any knowledge of any crime leading to the sale of those tools.
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It's a matter of degrees. If that set is brand new, never opened, and being sold to you for a 80-90% discount, wouldn't you at least pause to consider that it might not be above board? I'm not talking about buying from Overstock or some similar site. I'm talking about buying from an individual (not a company).
If the woman in the Craigslist case had asked the question and been given a plausible explanation, she would likely not have been charged, so long as she wasn't daft for believing what she was told. The above-mentioned urban legend is a good example. In fact, and Pooh can back me up on this, there were signs all over Chapel Hill and Durham last month advertising a house for sale for $35,000 because "wife is forcing sale."