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[Jim Cassedy]

Several years ago I heard an interview on the radio with an emergency room nurse who
had written a book about the numerous items she's had to extricate from assorted human
orifices. I don't remember the exact title, but it was called something like "How Did That
Get In There?" At one point during the conversation, she mentioned that a very common
item they've had to remove were light bulbs "that were inserted the wrong way".
Say what???- - Does that imply there's a right way to do that?

(Of course we know what she meant, but she could have phrased it better.
- - and how many ER doctors does it take to unscrew- - oh, never mind. . . )

[Ryan Gallagher]

Several years ago I heard an interview on the radio with an emergency room nurse who
had written a book about the numerous items she's had to extricate from assorted human
orifices. I don't remember the exact title, but it was called something like "How Did That
Get In There?" At one point during the conversation, she mentioned that a very common
item they've had to remove were light bulbs "that were inserted the wrong way".
Say what???- - Does that imply there's a right way to do that?

(Of course we know what she meant, but she could have phrased it better.
- - and how many ER doctors does it take to unscrew- - oh, never mind. . . )

Don't get any theatrical electricians involved, or there will be a 20min argument about whether to call it a bulb or a lamp before attempting to "remove" it.

[Frank Cox]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/20/man-sicily-trained-dog-illegally-dump-rubbish-catania

A man in Catania, Sicily, trained his dog to dump bags of rubbish by the roadside in an attempt to evade surveillance cameras installed to combat fly-tipping, municipal police have said.

The episode was detailed in a post on the city of Catania’s official Facebook page. Accompanying a video of the dog was a remark from the police that “inventiveness can never become an alibi for incivility”.

The footage shows a small dog trotting along Via Pulacara in Catania’s San Giorgio district with a bag of rubbish in its mouth before dropping it neatly at the roadside.

“The environmental unit of Catania’s municipal police,” a statement posted on the Facebook page reads, “has released two videos recorded by surveillance cameras in which a dog is seen depositing a bag of waste in the street.”

Authorities said the scene left little room for doubt: the animal had been trained to spare its owner from being filmed dumping rubbish illegally. The behaviour was “as cunning as it is doubly wrong” – polluting the city while attempting to sidestep the rules by exploiting an unwitting pet. “Respect for urban decorum and the environment is a duty for all.”

The man has reportedly been identified and fined.

[Leo Enticknap]

One can't help but feel sneaking admiration.

Continuing on the critter theme, some classic California local government insanity (my emphasis):

Hungry mountain lion trapped in SoCal family’s backyard after raiding henhouse

By kjerkovichcap and Katie Jerkovich

Published Feb. 21, 2026, 6:07 p.m. PT

A Southern California family trying to bust a beast attacking its pets by rigging a trap to catch the sneaky predator got the surprise of a lifetime when they found a mountain lion lurking inside.

The Hernandez family noticed that several of its henhouse chickens and four cats had gone missing from their Fallbrook backyard in San Diego County.

“There was a big hole on the rooftop and there were chickens missing and there were feathers all over the place,” Sonia Hernandez told FOX 5.

The family thought a coyote was to blame, so her father-in-law decided to build a homemade trap to catch the culprit. They were shocked to later find a mountain lion inside.

Fearing for her kids’ safety, Sonia said the family called 911 — only for wildlife officials to arrive the following day and release the animal back into the wild.

California law requires any privately trapped mountain lion to be set free in the same area where it was caught.

Hernandez said she understood that authorities were following protocol, but she and neighbors thought they would relocate the cougar to another area.

“We weren’t really happy about that because of our children and animals,” she said.

She added that “we do have that fear it will come back.”

Neighbor Jeanette Villegas, who owns horses on her property, also expressed concern.

“Releasing that animal knowing it has a food source, I believe it may come back,” Villegas said. “And I walk the property in the evening to check on my animals, and who knows if it’s watching me. It could be lurking behind a building, a bush, anything.”

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The comments below the story nail it. Releasing the mountain lion locally is insane, and pretty much guarantees that he or she'll be back to massacre more pets and domestic livestock. Nature did not intend them to co-exist with humans in residential 'burbs: I would guess that this one accidentally strayed in to one across an urban/wilderness border (of which there are many miles in Southern California), in response to which the sensible thing to do would have been to return the lion to his or her natural habitat. This occasionally happens with bears along the border where the northern edge of the Inland Empire meets the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains (including one memorable occasion last year when someone's Ring camera captured footage of a bear swimming laps in their backyard pool). When it does, the bears are usually taken back up into the mountains by animal control. Presumably the law referenced in this story only applies to mountain lions.

[Frank Cox]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/live-power-pole-theft-in-rural-leaves-local-rcmp-stumped-9.7103725

Live power pole theft in rural Sask. leaves local RCMP stumped

Pole and transformer still not recovered after nearly a month
Sask. RCMP are asking the public for help in locating an entire power pole and tracking down the people responsible for stealing it.

On Jan. 27, 2026, the power went out in the rural municipality (RM) of Key West, Sask., which is about 96 kilometres southwest of Regina.

SaskPower worked for two hours to restore power, as the police determined that someone "cut down a SaskTel power pole and removed it."

The power pole was on an abandoned property but had live power supply and was connected to a transformer. Police believe the pole was loaded into a truck and removed from the farmyard.

“There were signs that it was dragged through the yard and through a field. It was very erratic driving in the field, and then once they hit the grid road the tracks unfortunately disappeared," said Constable Gary Christopher of the Coronach RCMP detachment.

[Leo Enticknap]

ABC

Parent shocked after child played “Five Nights at Epstein’s” game on school computer

by: Jake White, Abigail Jones
Posted: Mar 18, 2026 / 07:29 PM MDT
Updated: Mar 19, 2026 / 11:42 AM MDT

KEARNS, Utah (ABC4) — One Granite School District parent is sharing her concerns after she said her son accessed and played a Jeffrey Epstein-themed game while at school, calling for the district to do more to protect their students from disturbing content.

The game in question is styled after the massively popular “Five Nights at Freddy’s” games, but instead of protecting yourself from a group of rogue animatronics, you are defending yourself from late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and other notable figures found in the Epstein files.

The game also uses real photos released by the Department of Justice of the inside of Epstein’s Virgin Island home, “Little Saint James,” where he is alleged to have trafficked young women and girls to be sexually abused by himself and visitors to his home.

The game can be played on several websites for free, and playing the game has reportedly become a trend in schools across the country.

One mother of a Granite School District student recently turned to social media to share her concerns after she learned her son was playing this game while at school. The topic came up one night while the family was talking about what to have for dinner.

“He mentioned the game, and it caught me off guard,” Michelle Martinez told ABC4 over the phone. “And so I asked him about it, and he told me that it was a game he had played at school.”

She said she was so upset that he knew anything about Epstein that she didn’t ask him any more questions. “I hadn’t had the conversation with him yet, or talked to him about situations like that yet.”

The fact that her son was able to play this game on a school computer was deeply disturbing to Martinez. “It absolutely disgusts me and breaks my heart that our children are subject to this, especially in this day and age,” she said.

School districts are able to block certain websites to prevent students from accessing them on their computers, but with free VPNs and proxies available on those same computers, it can become an almost impossible task for the districts to keep up with.

Still, Martinez feels like schools need to be doing more to prevent students from accessing content like this. “I think that the schools either need to remove computers completely or spend the money and upgrade their technology to prevent kids from being able to have access to games on their computers,” she said.

This is not just a problem for Granite School District, as the game has become popular nationally, and kids from all across the country are playing it and other games that feature similarly disturbing content.

Martinez said she thinks most students will grow up and remember it as a joke, but some kids will take it differently, and it will stick with them. “I just hope that the district or districts will figure out a way to put a stop to this so that we can protect our children just a little bit more,” she added.

Granite School District said that they’re aware of this particular issue and that they’ve taken measures to block it before. The district provided the following statement to ABC4.

“Granite School District is aware of a national trend involving students who are reportedly able to access an inappropriate game during school hours. In February, Granite received a concern about this game from one parent, and the district was able to block the website at that time,” the school district shared.

They said that they have since become aware of one additional concern that was shared to social media, but the district was not able to verify that the game was actually accessed.

“The district does not believe this game is being widely accessed at our schools. Regardless, we are committed to ensuring appropriate internet use in our schools, and we have a variety of safeguards in place,” the statement concluded.

Good to see that satire isn't totally dead.

[Leo Enticknap]

Well, I should have known. Turns out that my 10-year old is very much familiar with the game, and that most of the fourth grade has played it in the last few days. Apparently the game requires you to escape from Epstein's island while being pursued by Epstein, Trump, and Stephen Hawking! Hawking is the most dangerous foe, thanks to his jet-powered wheelchair.

Meanwhile, moving away from the morbid humor theme...

Real-life possum found hiding in soft-toy display at Tasmanian airport

Passengers and staff spotted the curious creature in a gift shop at Hobart Airport.

Imagine you’re at the airport gift shop, perusing a display of animal toys when one of them suddenly moves. Then you realise it’s actually alive.

That’s exactly what happened to passengers and staff at Hobart Airport in Tasmania earlier this week.

The creature in question? A possum.

Captured on camera, the little Australian marsupial can be seen huddled among a collection of koalas, echidnas and Tasmanian devils (all very much not alive).

According to onlookers, the possum stayed among the soft toys for a short while before venturing out of the shop and into the departure lounge, after which it was carefully escorted outside by several members of airport staff.

“We had a furry little friend join us in the terminal this week, at the gifts and souvenirs store in departures – it made itself at home among the souvenirs shelf,” said a Hobart Airport spokesperson.

“The team working in the store at the time were very surprised and couldn’t believe they found the possum with its lookalike plush family.

“Our team ensured the little visitor was safely escorted, it wasn’t distressed – just another day of adventuring.

“Only in Australia and only at Hobart Airport could a local possum pop in for a quick browse among the souvenirs."

The shop’s store manager, Liam Bloomfield, was delighted with the possum discovery. “We always knew our plushie toy collection was lifelike, but it seems we finally got the ultimate seal of approval,” he said.

“We were very happy to see a special local visitor stop by our terminal gift shop to browse the toy aisle and see if it could find some new friends. We’re happy to report that the visitor has safely made its way back to the great outdoors. We’re just glad we could provide a cosy resting spot in our store.”

Possums are one of many curious-looking creatures found in Tasmania. Other animals that live in the Australian island state include Tasmanian devils, wombats, quolls, pademelons and echidnas.

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There's a video at the link above.

[Bobby Henderson]

That's a much different looking possum compared to the ones we have here in Oklahoma. I'll occasionally see them in my neighborhood. I had a funny encounter with one a few years ago. I had just arrived home from work when I spotted a fairly large possum resting in front of my garage door. I walked over to get a closer look and said something along the lines of "hey buddy" in a friendly sort of voice. The possum hissed at me and walked into the back yard of the house next door.

[Frank Cox]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/sask-scraps-age-based-ratings-mandatory-classification-movies-9.7144762

Sask. scraps age-based ratings and mandatory classification for movies
Exit to Eden is a mostly forgotten film released in 1994, but Frank Cox remembers the box-office bomb well.
The Melville Theatre owner said it made him and other Saskatchewan theatres a lot of money.
The Hollywood comedy starring Dan Aykroyd and Rosie O'Donnell was partly set at a BDSM-themed resort and included full-frontal female nudity. Before it could screen, the Saskatchewan Film Classification Board banned it. Saskatchewan was the only place in the world to do so.
But the publicity just led more people to see it when the board reversed its decision, Cox said.
"That movie was suddenly the hottest thing in Saskatchewan. I had lineups of people down the block that wanted to see it simply because it had been banned," he recalled.
"Had it initially just been classified as 'Restricted' and left alone, it probably would have played for a weekend in the big city theatres and quietly disappeared without a trace."In the controversy's aftermath, the provincial government decided to outsource classification for new films to a similar provincial agency in B.C. which uses the Saskatchewan age-based rating system.
Currently, every film screened, rented or sold here — new or old — must have a classification or rating through what is now called the Saskatchewan Film Classification office, which is part of the Financial and Consumer Affairs Authority (FCAA). There are some exceptions, and theatres can use previous ratings from other provinces.
But on April 1, the Sask. Party government's Film Content Information Act takes effect and scraps the age-based rating requirement for theatrical films. Theatres won't have to submit new films — or old films that haven't been rated here yet — to the government for classification.
Instead of using the familiar PG or 18A ratings, theatres will be required to write and display their own content descriptions of films they show, according to the FCAA, which is responsible for film classification.
The FCAA declined to be interviewed for this story.
Cox said he welcomes the changes. He doesn't want to police what people can watch and doesn't think the government should do so either, he said.
"[After April 1] you can pretty much just pick the movies that you want to play based on the merits of the movie and what people in your area want to see rather than having to just say, 'OK, here is this list of officially approved movies. Pick one of those,'" Cox said.
"Over the course of time, the standards around movies have changed and people's expectations have changed. So a film rating that was valid 30 years ago is not particularly relevant to what people want to see today."
Scott Hamilton programs films for the Broadway Theatre in Saskatoon. While movie distributors often pay to get a film classified, the cost falls to theatres when they don't, he said.
"It makes the film maybe a little less attractive because all of a sudden I've doubled my costs for running that film. And it might scare me off of running something that is, I think, artistically really exciting," Hamilton said.
The FCAA set out to revamp its film classification system in 2023 and sought input from the theatre industry. The Legislature passed the Film Content Information Act in 2024, but it comes into force April 1.
It can cost up to $300 to get a film classified if it hasn't been already, which can be prohibitive for smaller, independent theatres, Hamilton said.
"Especially for a place like us that runs a lot of unorthodox films, there's just so much red tape attached to the process and this cuts down on so much of that for me."

[Leo Enticknap]

Here.

Hollywood studio shuts down Boston DIY movie theater after animated film screening

By Adam Silverstein
Published April 8, 2026, 12:04 a.m. PT

Hollywood studios have shut down a backyard DIY movie theater in Boston over its illegal screenings — with one showing of “The Wild Robot” ultimately triggering the crackdown.

Wenham Street Cinema owner Matt Shuman received a cease-and-desist letter from a licensing company representing major studios, Swank Motion Pictures, after he showed the 2024 animated film without permission as he was warned he’d face thousands in fines per movie if he continued.

“While we understand that some of your screenings may take place within or adjacent to a private residence,” the email read, according to the Daily Mail, “the nature of your promotional efforts, including public advertisements across online platforms … classifies these events as public in nature.”

The warning left little wiggle room. With about 15 screenings each summer and potential penalties of around $3,000 per title, Shuman said a lawyer advised him to shut the cinema down rather than risk mounting costs.

The legal trouble had an ironic lead-up.

In 2024, Shuman joked on April Fools’ Day that he’d received a warning from Swank Motion Pictures. A year later, that scenario became real after he screened “The Wild Robot” without permission.

While some community events continued for a short time, neighbors said the cease-and-desist effectively marked the beginning of the end for the cinema.

The final closure came in 2026, when Shuman and his wife Amy moved about a mile away to make room for their 2-year-old son, Caleb, leaving the garage theater behind.

For almost 10 years, Wenham Street Cinema had drawn crowds to a modest garage setup where neighbors gathered for movies, drinks and low-key events.

The cinema began simply in 2016, when Shuman set up a projector in his garage and invited a few neighbors over.

Over time, it turned into a regular neighborhood fixture, typically hosting around 25 people but occasionally drawing much larger crowds.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, Shuman recalled memorable nights, including when a pair of 70-year-old movie fans traveled 17 miles from Revere with rum and Coke to watch “The Friends of Eddie Coyle,” sharing stories about sneaking into theaters to see it decades earlier.

On another night, about 150 people packed the driveway and nearby street to watch the Harris-Trump debate.

In a message to supporters, Shuman thanked the community for transforming the space into something meaningful.

“Your encouragement, notes of thanks, and most of all, participation, helped transform an inert and sometimes dank garage into a place that fostered, at least on its best days, connection, smiles, and fond memories,” he said in an Instagram post.

Shuman hasn’t ruled out starting something similar again, but for now, he’s focused on family life and a new job as a fifth-grade teacher.

The projector hasn’t gone unused. It’s now set up in his basement, where the audience is smaller — and fully within the rules.

The ironic thing is that if he'd done this the right way, formed a nonprofit film society, and charged members two or three bucks per show, he could easily have bought a nontheatrical license from Swank (though that likely wouldn't have covered the political debate broadcast) and everyone would have been happy.

[Leo Enticknap]

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GORY ATTACK! ‘King of bullfighters’ gored in the bum by raging beast as matador rushed to hospital with ‘very serious’ 4in wound

Will Miller , Foreign News Reporter
Published: 04:31, 21 Apr 2026 | Updated: 06:04, 21 Apr 2026

ONE of Spain’s top bullfighters has been left seriously injured after being gored in the behind.

Jose Antonio Morante Camacho suffered the horror injury after he collided with the raging animal at an event in Seville on Sunday.

Dubbed the “king of the bullfighters”, Camacho sustained a “very serious” injury when the bull’s horn perforated his rectum.

The 46-year-old was competing with the fourth bull of the afternoon at La Maestranza bullring as part of popular April celebrations.

According to reports, Camacho was trying to control the bull which had positioned itself in a notoriously treacherous spot in the arena.

Camacho attempted a daring manoeuvre but failed to raise his arms in time, leaving him exposed.

The bull charged at him, catching him at hip level and driving its horn into his behind.

Camacho instantly dropped to the floor as he reached back in agony.

Moments later, he was carried out of the ring by fellow bullfighters.

Camacho was then rushed to a nearby hospital and placed under general anaesthetic for an emergency two-hour surgery.

Doctors confirmed he had suffered a devastating internal injury, with the bull’s horn affecting a highly sensitive area.

The medical report said: “It is a bull horn wound on the posterior anal margin with a trajectory of about 10cm, partially damaging the anal sphincter muscles with a perforation of the posterior wall of the rectum of 1.5cm”

“The intervention consisted of washing the wound, repairing the rectal wall and the sphincter apparatus, leaving a suction drain in the postanal and retrorectal space,” the report added.

Camacho now remains under close observation while his condition has been described as “very serious”.

This is not the first time tragedy has struck one of Spain‘s leading matadors.

Earlier this month, a retired bullfighter was gored to death as he prepared for a sold-out show.

Ricardo Ortiz, 51, was attacked as he helped handle several raging beasts inside their enclosures.

Ortiz was working alongside other matadors ahead of the Corrida Picassiana event held at La Malagueta in Málaga.

Lances de Futuro, the company organising the bullfight, said: “One of the bulls gave [Ortiz] a severe goring that caused his death.

“We want to convey our deepest condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of the deceased, a much-loved and respected person in the bullfighting world.”

Ricardo was born in Malaga in 1974 and came from a family of successful bullfighters in Spain.

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I wonder if the positioning of the play icon is entirely coincidental?

[Leo Enticknap]

From the December 1940 edition of Popular Mechanics:

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Poor gorilla!

[Martin McCaffery]

Toto really let herself go after The Wizard of Oz

[Leo Enticknap]

Per the article, Toto the gorilla was eight when this article was written, and so presumably was born in 1932. Per Wikipedia, the dog who played Toto in The Wizard of Oz was born on November 17, 1933. From this I would guess that Toto was a popular pet/animal name in the early 1930s, though I have no idea why.

[Frank Cox]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/scammers-rogers-customers-ipads-9.7186935

Scammers are getting Rogers customers to mail them 'free' iPads

Angelina King
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How scammers are getting Rogers customers to mail them 'free' iPads
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CBC News spoke with two people victimized by the same scam, which ends with the fraudsters getting their hands on an iPad while the customers are stuck paying for them.

When Brianna MacKay got a phone call in March from someone claiming to be a Rogers employee offering a cheaper phone plan with a free iPad, she didn't think twice — she had taken advantage of a similar promotion before.
"I've gotten a free iPad from them in the past, so I agreed to it," she said. "They didn't ask for any of my information, it seemed legit."
The caller walked her through how to sign up for the promotion on the Rogers app, she says. A couple of days later, the iPad arrived in the mail followed by a phone call from another person — this time claiming to be from the Rogers activation department.
MacKay, who lives in Oakville, Ont., says that person told her there had been a mistake and that she would have to pay for a data plan on the iPad.
"I got upset and I said, 'I clarified multiple times on the phone that there wasn't going to be any charges with this,'" she said. "They were so apologetic."

MacKay says she was told the error could be resolved by simply returning the iPad. They emailed her a return shipping label, and she sent it in the mail.
The problem: the iPad did not go back to Rogers, but to a home in Brampton, Ont. MacKay then realized she had never spoken with a Rogers employee and had instead been scammed, leaving her with a $120 monthly bill for an iPad she no longer has and a data plan to go with it.
It turned out she had not signed up for a cheaper phone plan, but for an actual iPad financing agreement and data plan with Rogers.
She, and another victim of the same fraud CBC News spoke with, said they cannot afford the monthly payments they are now stuck with. They explained their situation to Rogers and asked the company to cancel the plan, which it refused to do.
It was only after CBC contacted Rogers that the company removed the $20 monthly service fee for the data plan and offered a one-time $50 "goodwill gesture." But the customers are still on the hook for the iPads, which cost $2,350.
"It's really stressful. Times are tough as it is," MacKay said. "I can't budget in this payment, so I actually don't know what I'm going to do."
Rogers says it helps protect against return scams

Rogers says when a customer orders a new device, the company tells them by email and through a note inside the shipping box not to return the device to any other address other than a Rogers one. It also says it informs customers that Rogers will never call asking to return a device.
"We understand how difficult it is for customers who fall victim to fraud and we actively share information on how to stay protected against fraudulent activity, including return scams targeting consumers globally and across industries," Rogers spokesperson Christina Salituro said.
"We use a variety of ways to educate our customers, including shipping notification emails, hand-outs in device shipment boxes and on our website."The Canadian Telecommunications Association, which represents telecom companies such as Rogers, says the issue is being seen across a range of industries.
"Telecommunications providers take these threats seriously and continue to invest in protections and education for consumers, along with collaboration with law enforcement and the Canadian Anti‑Fraud Centre," spokesperson Nick Kyonka said.
Toronto senior also scammed

Jeong Park just so happened to be in the market for a cheaper internet plan when someone claiming to be from Rogers called offering a good deal on home phone and internet. That led to Park being victimized in the same scam as MacKay.
At the time of the call in December, the 74-year-old was not an active Rogers customer, though she had been in the past. The fraudster instructed her to send a photo of her driver's license and, unbeknownst to Park, signed her up for the two-year iPad financing program.
The return shipping label the scammer provided to Park was for a home in Edmonton.
"My feelings are very frustrated and I am ashamed, too," Park said.
Her son-in-law, Jody Brisson, has been helping Park try and get a refund from Rogers and says more safeguards should be in place when it comes to signing customers up.
"It feels very simple to be able to go online with a copy of a driver's license and sign up for a large financed amount, especially when [Rogers] knows these things happen," Brisson said.


Jeong Park and her son-in-law Jody Brisson tried to get Rogers to cancel the iPad financing plan a scammer signed her up for, but with no luck. (Aizick Grimman/CBC)
In Park's case, she is not being charged the $20 monthly data-plan fee. When asked by CBC if Rogers would remove $20 from her monthly bill in another way, the company said both she and MacKay would receive a one-time $50 credit as a goodwill gesture, which Brisson calls disappointing.
"A $50 goodwill credit on a $2,000 financed iPad doesn't even cover the interest and is insulting," Brisson said.
Both MacKay and Park filed reports with the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (CAFC) and their local police services, and filed complaints with the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services (CCTS), an independent industry-funded organization created to resolve consumer complaints with Canada's telecommunications companies.
Not your typical scam, experts say

Toronto police financial crimes Det. David Coffey says these types of scams are not new, but since communications companies have started holding victims financially responsible, police are seeing more reports.
"This scam doesn't trick people into buying something fake. It tricks them into giving away something real," he said.
The CAFC says it has been tracking this type of scam since 2022. Outreach officer Jeff Horncastle says it is unique because the fraudsters aren't asking for money and there is not the same sense of urgency that is typical of many other scams.
"It is pretty sophisticated. And those iPads add up pretty quickly, especially if they're doing it on such a large scale like a lot of fraud is," Horncastle said.
He says the fraudsters often use vacant homes or sorting facilities as delivery addresses.

York Regional Police Const. Kevin Nebrija says they also pick random addresses.
"They then watch for the iPad to be dropped off at which point they grab it or get someone else to pick it up from the porch," he said.
Horncastle says this particular type of scam is one of the main variations that fall under the service scam category, in which fraudsters pose as legitimate service providers.