Bum steer

Kiefer Sutherland is the latest rich guy to prove the old adage:

“A fool and his money are soon parted.”

He got taken for $869,000 by a con artist. And the scam is so bad you wonder how anyone could get suckered by it.

The scammer convinced Sutherland to give him a truckload of money so he could buy cattle in Mexico and resell them in the states for big bucks.

R U kidding?

You don’t even have to a rancher to see how shaky this one is.

There isn’t a big profit margin in beef as it is. And I don’t think U.S. consumers are clamoring for Mexican meat.

The scammer is lucky he snookered Sutherland and not his TV persona, Jack Bauer.

Ol’ Jack would have hung the bad guy by his wrists and made him, ahem, regret his misdeeds.

But of course there’s a difference between real life and make-believe.

It’s just like the difference between real business deals and scams.

Maybe Sutherland/Bauer knows that now.