This story was funnier when I thought it was human organs.

[Shockeye]

Music store manager arrested for selling Alzheimer's victim 11 organs

PORT RICHEY, Florida (AP) -- Authorities say a music store manager convinced an Alzheimer's disease victim to buy 11 organs in 18 months. He told the 79-year-old woman she would play better if she had a more expensive instrument.

Scott Lewis Heyder is charged with exploitation of the elderly. He is being held on a $10,000 bail.

Pasco County Sheriff's detectives say the Spring Hill woman spent about $25,000 on organs. She has not received any money back from the store.

She began buying and trading organs at the Fletcher Music Center at Gulfview Square Mall in 2003 after taking lessons there.

When detectives questioned her, she said she only remembered buying three or four organs over the years.

Detectives say the woman's family begged Heyder to stop selling her the expensive instruments.

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Hilarious. In a really terrible way.

[WayAbvPar]

I am going to hell for laughing at that. I will save you a seat.

[HaemishM]

25 grand on organs? Hell, go to Tijuana, you can get a boatload of them for pesos per kidney.

[voodoolily]

Dang, that's a lot of organs. Those things are expensive!

One time when I was a kid I tried to scam the old people who lived a block away from me by saying that I was lost and could I please have a quarter to use the phone. It just snowballed from there, and needless to say I got caught. It hadn't occurred to me to have a backup plan in case the people simply offered to let me use their phone. 

[Shockeye]

[quote="Mainichi]Senile elderly woman, family sue kimono firm over 30 million yen in suspicious sales

HIROSHIMA -- An 85-year-old senile woman and her relatives have filed a suit against a kimono firm and a wholesale company, demanding a refund and compensation over a whopping 30 million yen in suspicious sales.

The relatives of the woman in Hiroshima said that the merchant firm and wholesale company took advantage of her dementia and encouraged her to buy kimono.

In the suit filed on Thursday with the Hiroshima District Court, they demanded that the representative of the firm in Hiroshima and the wholesale company in Kyoto agree to refund about 30 million yen.

They also demanded that the two parties pay 25 million yen in compensation.

The woman also bought kimono and belts from several other agents in the late 1990s.

After learning that she had been talked into buying expensive kimono-related products, her relatives received a certificate from a doctor in 2000 confirming her senile dementia.

"They sold products by taking advantage of her declining senses. This constitutes illegal sales methods," a relative said.

They added that the wholesale company was also responsible because they deemed that it was in a position to know the merchant firm's sales methods.

The merchant firm has since moved from the address printed on the business card the elderly woman received. (Mainichi)[/quote]