kgw.com — A hoax ad placed on Craigslist offered an Oregon man's belongings to anyone willing to come pick them up. The only problem was, the owner didn't place the ad. The hoax led to people carting away nearly everything accessible from his property ... stopping just short of taking his horse.
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mrthinkingmanMar 24, 2008
Internet Good! (Obama '08); Internet Bad!
nerdtacularMar 24, 2008
The kid that stole the laptop, xbox, and tv just needs to make a Craigslist ad like this for his next target. The internet doesn't lie.
hokie47Mar 24, 2008
Cop: Why did you kill him?Idiot: Well officer there is this Craigslist ad saying that a man wanted to be killed and who ever kills him first gets all his belongings.Cop: f**k you beat me to it.
theacclaimedMar 25, 2008
Yeah!
Closed AccountMar 26, 2008
Really?!? Cops need an excuse to taze now?!?
avangionqMar 26, 2008
"The trespassers, armed with printouts of the ad, tried to brush him off. "They honestly thought that because it appeared on the Internet it was true," Salisbury said. "It boggles the mind."" ... another mass delusion -- when enough people believe something is true, they will act upon the presumption that it is true, despite evidence to the contrary, especially when enough like-minded individuals gather together ...
anonymous99Mar 26, 2008
OH MAN! That website! Once, I posted about an internet scam I encountered at 2AM, and the FBI called me at 2:30AM, waking up everyone...imagine what the parents thought when the FBI introduces themself on the phone and asks to speak to one of the kids....bad memories.
tacticalpenguinMar 26, 2008
Only if I can get it for free pickup at someone's house
Closed AccountMar 26, 2008
"Significant" doesn't mean a majority, it means :1: having meaning; especially : suggestive 2 a: having or likely to have influence or effect : important ; also : of a noticeably or measurably large amount b: probably caused by something other than mere chance <a class="user" href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/significant">http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/signific ...</a>And I'm sure you WILL sleep just fine, it wasn't your house that was looted and sacked as a "prank". You have a place to sleep, and something to sleep in, and no worries when you wake to peruse Craigslist for more stuff,... but he won't and if we allow this kind of crap to be seen as if it's just a "prank" and should therefore be treated as such, how long will it be before Craigslist, in all it's dubious glories, is used as a medium for coordinating annual/month/weekly/daily raids on targets of reprisal, opportunity, and to satiate the random lark of joy and excitement?Nearly every time Law and Order are taken down, a significant number of opportunist arise for the possibility for looting anew. How many times has LA been burnt, looted, and sacked? How many times for Detroit, New Orleans, and other major cities in the 20th Century alone? We don’t need invading armies to do that anymore, we need merely wait for the lights to go out and the Police to back away and it will happen again and again and again.Perhaps, you live in the country?I am only aware of one large scale occasion where a city was spared this mindless blight. NYC shortly after 911 when a grid outage occurred, and to their tremendous credit did they simply walk home disallowing any further malfeasance to their city. One supposes they had suffered enough misery and would brook no more. If only they could choose to live in that way forever...A Republic stands or falls on the validity of it’s laws, and the nature of it’s people in carrying them out faithfully. Where that law and it’s people are merely “acting” concordantly in fear of the other, and that fear is subsequently removed allowing either to show themselves to be otherwise disdainful, then I say YES…. the Republic is in some danger.