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Craigslist hoax
Level42:
This sucks:
http://www.mahalo.com/Robert_Salisbury_Craigslist_Hoax
Hope it wasn't posted already....
SavannahLion:
Talk about the gall of some people. I have to wonder though, didn't the guy lock his doors or something? Seems kind of fishy.
One of the articles mentions that people are sick of Craigslist policies. Which policy are they referring to?
paigeoliver:
The craigslist flagging system is used more to remove competitors ads then it is to deal with genuine problems. That is probably what they are talking about.
Since the guy had a horse he was probably pretty rural. There isn't much reason to lock the door if your house is in the middle of nowhere. You will still get burgled by anyone who wants to do it, the locked door will just add 30 seconds to the process and give the owner ANOTHER thing to replace if they get burgled.
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on March 26, 2008, 06:23:15 pm ---Talk about the gall of some people. I have to wonder though, didn't the guy lock his doors or something? Seems kind of fishy.
One of the articles mentions that people are sick of Craigslist policies. Which policy are they referring to?
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ChadTower:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on March 26, 2008, 06:55:32 pm ---The craigslist flagging system is used more to remove competitors ads then it is to deal with genuine problems. That is probably what they are talking about.
Since the guy had a horse he was probably pretty rural. There isn't much reason to lock the door if your house is in the middle of nowhere. You will still get burgled by anyone who wants to do it, the locked door will just add 30 seconds to the process and give the owner ANOTHER thing to replace if they get burgled.
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I used to live in a very rural section of Canada. Even there, we'd all lock our doors, because of the remoteness. There were so few people that everyone pretty much knew everyone else's schedule and work habits so it was easy to know when someone would be gone for hours. The only way you could tell if you'd been burgled was if there was damage - people who would go into an unlocked house would be very subtle about it. They'd have enough time to search cleanly. They didn't take simple stuff like TVs - no place to fence it. If they knew you didn't lock your doors they'd keep coming in until they found something of substantial value. This was especially true because so many people there worked on the ocean and would be gone for a couple weeks at a time.
shardian:
I think some homeowners insurance policies require evidence of forced entry to pay out on robbery.
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