I thought I'd share this story as it has to be one of the oddest moment I've had dealing with buying things off of CL.
I found a pair of speakers I really wanted and setup a time to go pick them up. I arrived at the sellers house and he was standing in the driveway talking to his son (6-8 years old) and a scruffy looking guy ( I assumed is buddy) sitting on a fisher price plastic kids table playing with his son. We went down to his basement to checkout his speakers, his son following us down asking what my name was, why was I hear, etc...his buddy didn't come down.
We listened to the speakers, bullshitted a little, I handed him the cash and helped him unhook the cables. His buddy came down at that time, plopped on the couch and loudly asked why he was selling the speakers. Since he was previously sitting at a kids table I didn't realize the guy was around 6'5", wearing an army shirt and had a dayglo orange hat with a kids sheriff badge on the front. I thought this was odd but figured he was playing with the sellers son. Like I said the guy was really scruffy looking, unkempt, but I didn't think anything of it. Looked like Tom before he cleaned up.
As we were about to carry the speakers upstairs his buddy asked what he was selling them for. I could tell the seller didn't want to answer this question and said $1000 (this wasn't the price). His buddy knew that wasn't right, and asked again. After some hesitation the seller confessed the price to him. Right away his buddy got agitated and said, "Shit...I'll pay $xxx for those, why don't you sell them to me?". I thought he was joking until we were walking through the garage to my car and I hear loud crash behind me. I turn around to see that he had kicked the fisher price table which had previously contained several dozen plastic Easter eggs and glasses of water. They went flying and his buddy started getting unhinged. He picked up one of the unbroken glasses and threw it as hard as he could at the sellers truck.
At this point I have a 80# speaker in my hand and I'm thinking I'm going to have to drop it quick because I might just have to defend myself. The guy continued to curse up a storm, m effing the seller but he wasn't looking at me so I assumed I wasn't going to have to kick this guys head in. He continued to scream and curse and walked over to his truck, rev'd it well past the redline, threw it in reverse and tore out of the driveway. My next thought was that my car was at the end of the driveway to the side he was heading towards. He missed my car, slammed it into drive and went like a bat out of hell down the road.
The seller I could tell felt terrible. He apologized up and down and then informed me that what I thought was his buddy was his brother in law. Oh, well...I guess you can't choose your family can you...
