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.

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?

[ChadTower]

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.

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.

[ChadTower]

I think some homeowners insurance policies require evidence of forced entry to pay out on robbery.

Yep.  That didn't really matter where we were, though, as it pretty much was only for if the house were to burn down or something.  You didn't call the Mounties unless something bad happened and they didn't show up for quite a while anyway.  Even if you did, nine times out of ten  you'd already know who did it, and the solution was to get two more dogs.

[shardian]

I just can't believe the nerve of the people involved here. The dude showed up, and people told him to piss off and threw the ad which "entitled" them to all his stuff.

If I were the guy, I would've went and got my gun and fired a few shots in the air...assuming the gun hadn't already been stolen.

[ChadTower]

Those people in the vid are returning a crib. 

That is one of the rare times having a pit bull would be useful.

[Dartful Dodger]

That is one of the rare times having a pit bull would be useful.

Someone would have taken it to sell to a medical testing facility.

[SavannahLion]

Even though I lived out in the country, I lived right next to a ski resort. Locking doors was a requirement if you didn't want anything to walk away. Very few locals would do anything. It was the tourists, who are always a nightmare. I've had tourists ask me to use the phone, bathroom or warm up next to the fire place. They get the idea that if a home is next to a resort then the home is also a part of the resort. Each year, we had to tow about 50 cars because they parked in our driveway despite signage.

Summertime tourists aren't nearly as bad (not nearly as many), but they tend to bully their way around "exploring" the country and walking into anything that's unlocked (and sometimes even if it's locked). It is one of the reasons why our family always had dogs. For seventeen years, we had some really mean dogs (and a mean lead pipe carrying owner ) that were amazingly effective in keeping ---uvulas--- away from the house and off our property.

[ark_ader]

This is terrible.

Whoever did this should get 25 years.

Those who profited should get jail time.

Craigslist should also be sued.   

[Level42]

Well, this made the newspapers here. I had to do some googling to find the video as I figured you guys wouldn't understand the Dutch newspaper article....

I noticed it especially because recently some guys from the www.gameroom.be forum had been scammed too. There were 4 quite nice pinballs on offer on the Dutch equivalent of Craigslist for a very good price, way up in the north of The Netherlands.
Now, I think they should have checked out the seller better (ask pics, specs etc) but anyway, they drove up 4,5 hours from Belgium to about the northest  part of Holland. When they arrived at the address, the occupant knew nothing about any pinballs at all. He was nice enough to give them a cup of coffee though, before they headed back home for another 4,5 hours driving.....

It reminded me of the thing that FrizzleFried was victim of, but at least that was in his area....

These things are SICK. I hope they have the IP and can find out who it was.

[SavannahLion]

These things are SICK. I hope they have the IP and can find out who it was.

Even if, I doubt it does any good with Craigslist. Craigslist isn't very pro-active with protecting their users.

Of course, a certain other site is way too over protective and you can't even operate within it without tripping over some lame ass rules. My ex took over one of our old shared accounts and has been charging her fees to my checking account.  I got so fed with their lame ---smurfing--- rules trying to correct it, I called my bank, reported it as fraud, lodged a complaint with the BBB and sent the appropriate letter to my lawyer.