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> With a full license plate number in hand from David’s pictures, the Natick police quickly started to unravel the conspiracy.

> eBay’s team knew it was in trouble, according to their own messages

"Ah yes let's stalk these people and just hope they don't decide to take down the license plate." I guess I shouldn't be surprised that people doing awful things have an awful plan, but that's pretty dumb.

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I think the dumb plan comes with the territory. If you think stalking someone as a solution to a problem makes sense, chances are reasoning isn't a skill you've developed very much. You tend to need that skill if you're going to make it hard to catch you. Basically the kind of person who would come up with this kind of a solution is not the kind of person who could pull it off, and those who can pull it off tend not to come up with this kind of nonsense.

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