Women arrested after complaining to police that hitman ripped them off

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/10/04/women-arrested-after-complaini.html

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So hard to find an honest tradesman these days. The Yelp ratings are no help, either.

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The obvious solution is to hire another hitman to kill the first hitman. And if that doesn’t work. . . .

Well, you know where this is going.

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The young lady’s boyfriend managed to convince her that he worked in the secret service

Everyone has done that surely?

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Maybe they’d have had more success with the Better Business Bureau.

It’s hired hitmans all the way down.

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Are they affiliated or do they have reciprocity with the Assassination Bureau?

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The mom was swindled by her boyfriend.
The daughter was swindled by her boyfriend.

For starters, I think they should change dating apps.

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For everyone’s safety, I hope they all get sent to different prisons.

From the title I spent some time trying to extrapolate what “them” might be a proxy for, with some morbidity, before I understood the context correctly.

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Unless you’re a mob boss, the likelihood of you being able to hire an actual hitman is, if not zero, then so close to zero that it might as well be.

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The woman assumed that we were far enough into the ‘Trumpian Universe’.

Seriously, these folks should watch Horrible Bosses.

So the best chance is to crisscross with a stranger on a train?

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