Lego with legs

In the news today . . .
William Swanberg, of Reno, Nevada, is charged with stealing $200,000 worth of Lego bricks, in the form of the expensive sets like the Lego Millennium Falcon playset. He apparently stole them with the intention of trying to resell them on EBay.

A "poke", in medaeval times, was a leather drawstring bag. Con men would try to sell simpletons a moving bag, telling them there was a piglet (valuable) inside, when in reality there was just a cat (not valuable) inside. The idiots would buy a pig in a poke, while the smarter peasants would insist on looking inside first, thus letting the cat out of the bag.
EBay is the poke of the 21st Century. Despite all the safeguards and certifications, you are still buying something you have not seen in person, and whose ownership may be in question.
A word to the wise . . .