This is one of the unfortunate results of a bad economy that the news media really doesn’t focus too much upon. When there is a great deal of long-term unemployment, people resort to very desperate measures to obtain money as part of the “do whatever it takes” American belief.
I do hope your story has at least a satisfactory ending for you, where you get a little alone time with these thieves to properly “express” your displeasure with them and their actions ^_^.
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