I guess I won’t be selling on Craig’s List for a while, at least not until these guys are caught. :mad:
NEVER MEET AT YOUR HOME! What the fuck, guys?! I’m not blaming the victims, but use some common sense!
I would not disputing this common sense - but in fairness depending on what good you’re exchanging meeting at someone’s home is sometimes the only practical solution.
For instance, I recently got rid of a treadmill (for free) - and I had the person come to my home to collect it. I wasn’t prepared to schlep that unwieldly thing anywhere, especially since the first 3 callers for it turned out to be no shows.
Since when do four law-abiding citizens come to look at a ring?
Christ. Shoot a man in the head for trying to protect his son. I hope these people are found.
Hey, they coulda been polygamous. Don’t judge.
You still can meet somewhere else, and bring some friends along with you.
In the first attack, the item was a big screen TV, not easily schleped.
This_Just_In… Was it me? 
I got a free treadmill from someone on CL a couple years ago. It needed a belt. I still use it.
Not long ago when I was trying to adopt a dog people thought I was overly paranoid for not wanting random internet strangers (from craigslist) in my house…
You still probably are. This is the second case of someone being killed from craigslist in how many years that it’s been operating, and how many millions of transactions? It’s probably much more likely that some random person (not from the Internet) would break into your house while you’re home or that you’d get mugged on the street and killed that way. So you just take the already tiny risks and temper them as close to zero as possible by using common sense.
My concern is that this same group has victimized two families in my area in the last two weeks. That make the odds a bit more significant.
:dubious: Highly illogical.
Care to elaborate? Or is that a joke?
Sure. First, who cares about the number of murders? Presumably the OP doesn’t want to get robbed either, which must happen far more often. Second, what does the unrelated risk of a normal activity have to do with assuming a new risk? The way to “temper the risks as close to zero” as possible is by not meeting total strangers in your home. In many craigslist transactions, that should be “total strangers who know that you have something of value which they want or money on hand”, although not in Khadaji’s case.