It's hard to believe what I am reading here. Highland Park is a virtual training camp for this guy. How could he be anything else other than what everyone is teaching him - that he can get money before doing anything! Nice work if you can get it. On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:45:03 -0500, Clarke M. Thomas wrote: | He also hit us up. He had some sad story. His concrete repair | work was awful and he kept wanting more money for supplies. jean | thomas | | gh28@andrew.cmu.edu wrote: | || Dear Ms. O'Connell, || I live in Highland Park. || || Approximately 6 years ago the same African-American man (in his || 40s?) who ripped you off ripped ME off. || || He approached me by pointing out that my sidewalk needed repair, || & that he did that kind of work. He was to lay a brick patio in || my backyard & a brick sidewalk in the front of the house. I || supplied the bricks & the concrete. He did little work. He || always had his toddler son in tow, & I felt sorry for him. I did || what you did, & gave him money for work he had not yet done -- || and never did do. || || At that time he lived above the dry cleaner on Bryant. He is a || scam artist. || || Geoffrey Hitch || --On Thursday, February 10, 2005 1:19 PM -0500 Margaret OConnell || <tropicalmomo@earthlink.net> wrote: || ||| I have just been cheated by a handiman who asked for partial ||| payment for a job and then never came back to finish the work. ||| I understand that he has done this to at least two other people ||| in our Highland Park neighborhood. Be on the lookout for an ||| African American man named Leroy Ramsey. He is tall and ||| "specializes" in concrete work altho he says he can fix almost ||| anything. I have learned an expensive lession! ||| ||| -- Margaret O'Connell ||| ||| ||| -- ||| <http://www.highlandpark.pgh.pa.us/mailman/listinfo/neighborhood> ---------- James H. Joseph, Esq. Joseph Law Offices, P.C. 6030 Bunkerhill Street Pittsburgh, PA 15206-1156 Voice 412.661.4000 Fax 412.661.4023