This is less of a crazy story and more of a sad, stupid one
>wants driveway redone.
>Contractors quotes are too expensive
>contacts his old ass handyman neighbor who is the oldest of 13 kids. no joke
> handyman, whose done a lot of work on everyone's houses in the neighborhood and is actually a pretty solid guy, says that he doesn't work with concrete but his brother does.
>brother is sketchy though and handyman says he's had trouble in the past, but he'll give him a good price. just get everything in writing and tell him everything so he can keep an eye on his brother as well.
>like I said, handyman is super solid guy
>so the guy I'm living with, call him Craig, contacts handyman's brother.
>pays him 3k to do his driveway.
>in cash
>with no receipt
>even though handy man said you should
>oh well, if his brother is anything like handyman, I can trust him 100%
>ends up the guy does half the job and splits
>handyman tries to get a hold of him but can't
>even some of the 11 other brothers and sisters can't find him
> no writing so the police don't give a fuck
> Craig keeps texting handyman's brother but keeps getting excuses and that he'll finish the job soon
>won't call because autistic
>after 6 months a neighbor catches me before I head to class and asks me why the driveway has been fucked up for the past year.
>tell him
>neighbor introduces me to a guy on the next street over who is a cop. Cop says that he'll look into it and see if he can have a talk. especially if craig still has the texts of handymand's brother acknowledging that he hasn't finished the job
>go to Craig that night and tell him about my convo
>oh no, I delete all my texts to keep my phone clean
>dude has a fucking 16GB iPhone 5 with no music, pics, nothing. Just sits there empty in his $60 leather belt clip.