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Since boys will be boys; the ones
attending the Sig Fly-In decided to have a little fun
with fellow club member and friend, Stacy Gillmore. At
the time of the Sig Fly-In, Stacy was enthusiastically
looking to own one of Sig's new airplanes, the 3-D
Mayhem ARF. He asked the guys to watch out for a good
deal on one and he would pay them to bring it back. Rick
and the others found that there weren't any spectacular
deals on the plane, but there were several Mayhem's
flying on site so the boys asked the guy next to them on
the flightline if Rick could pose with his airplane as
if Rick had won it as part of a raffle. All of us in
JCRC know that Rick has an enchanted way of winning
something in nearly every raffle that he enters, not to
mention an incredible ability to find good deals on
other R/C items that he purchases. So that was part of
the setup, Rick posed with the airplane and they wanted
to make Stacy think that he had won the Mayhem in a
raffle. Additionally, the boys asked this nice lady who
was there selling R/C goods to fake a picture showing a
made-up price on the Sig Mayhem. Prior to them leaving,
Stacy asked Rick to pick up a Mayhem for him if they
were for sale at or below a certain price. So they had
this woman fake a sign and stick in on the Mayhem box
for this fake picture. Great idea, but after seeing the
faked picture, we knew the price was way too low and
that Stacy, being a very smart guy, would see right
through that scam, plus she still had the old price tag
in her other hand. Enter PhotoShop! With a little
touch-up here and there, adding some authentic looking
type and raising the price up to a believable, yet low
price, Stacy bought into the scam for a couple of hours.
Stacy, if we didn't love you, we wouldn't torment you!
:-)
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