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Cruel Craigslist hoax
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 12:29 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Re: Cruel Craigslist hoax
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 2:24 pm
by matthijs
Wow
How crazy are those people? They see an add on a website telling them they can grab the belongings of someone, and then they do just that? Huh?
Wait, I have to reread the story.
Re: Cruel Craigslist hoax
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 2:47 pm
by RobertGonzalez
That's about the gist of it. Even when the home owner told them he was the owner they showed him the printed ad and took his stuff right in front of his eyes.
Re: Cruel Craigslist hoax
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 5:11 pm
by Bill H
This has happened quite a few times. Usually its a jilted lover that posts the ad, getting back at the "cad" that jilted her/him.
Re: Cruel Craigslist hoax
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 5:26 pm
by RobertGonzalez
I heard another one where someone posted a XXX site with pictures of an ex-girlfriend or ex-wife and the ex's real phone number and address. There something about phone calls coming in at 2:00 AM and things as well as stuff coming to the house that should probably not be coming to the house.
From what I understand it forced the person to leave their home for a week and the FBU set up shop there for a time to see if they could catch the perpetrator. That just sucks too.
Re: Cruel Craigslist hoax
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 4:10 pm
by DaveTheAve
Everah wrote:From what I understand it forced the person to leave their home for a week and the FBU set up shop there for a time to see if they could catch the perpetrator. That just sucks too.
Federal Beau of Underwear? I KNEW IT EXISTED!

Re: Cruel Craigslist hoax
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 4:27 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Damn fat fingers

Re: Cruel Craigslist hoax
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 9:42 pm
by califdon
DaveTheAve wrote:Everah wrote:From what I understand it forced the person to leave their home for a week and the FBU set up shop there for a time to see if they could catch the perpetrator. That just sucks too.
Federal Beau of Underwear? I KNEW IT EXISTED!

LMAO!!!!

Re: Cruel Craigslist hoax
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:09 am
by Luke
That's about the gist of it. Even when the home owner told them he was the owner they showed him the printed ad and took his stuff right in front of his eyes.
Can you imagine? I'd be whoopin' some ass I'll tell ya that.
Re: Cruel Craigslist hoax
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:30 am
by RobertGonzalez
I would too. Or at least I thought I would until I thought about there being 20 people stealing my crap. Then it would have turned into a looters riot. Those never end well.
Re: Cruel Craigslist hoax
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 12:38 pm
by hawleyjr
That happened about 8 hours (driving time) from where I'm at. Its all over the news. Those guys who didn't return the stuff will get caught.
Re: Cruel Craigslist hoax
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 1:59 pm
by califdon
hawleyjr wrote:That happened about 8 hours (driving time) from where I'm at. Its all over the news. Those guys who didn't return the stuff will get caught.
I hope so, but if they were smart, they would have signed up on Craig's List with a phony email address, so I'm not sure they will be caught. Maybe if it was a national security matter, they could trace the log files, but even then, if the culprits were smart, they could have used a library computer or gone through an anonymizer or something. There's always ways for crooks and cruel people to get away with sh**, at least for awhile. Sooner or later, it will catch up with them, though. At least I think so.
Re: Cruel Craigslist hoax
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 5:07 pm
by Bill H
if the culprits were smart
Culprits are almost never smart. Anyone with brains enough to have successfully disguised his location would have known that the listing was bogus and that the chances of getting caught exceeded the chances of obtaining anything worth the risk. That it apparently paid off in this instance does not mean that it would do so on a routine basis. In most of the cases that I've read about the ones who took the property wound up regretting having done so.
Pretty much the only thing that prevents society from deteriorating into chaos is that criminals are 99% stupid. Ask any cop.
Re: Cruel Craigslist hoax
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 3:21 pm
by Bill H
What did I say about culprits almost never being smart? The people who posted the "free stuff" ad have been caught.
Turns out they had stolen some stuff from the house and made the post to cover up their theft. They did not make the post anonymously.
You can get details at
http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2008/04 ... index.html
Re: Cruel Craigslist hoax
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 4:26 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Yeah, I saw that this morning.
How stupid and cruel is that? Let's take some stuff from guy, then to cover it up, let's tell the world that they can do the same thing.
Man, that is the worst. That poor guy never stood a chance.