Returning home a man sees his property being hauled away by multiple vehicles. He arrives home to see people wondering the property, and loading up his stuff. He tells them this is his property. He tells them to leave his stuff alone and to leave the property. The people are belligerent and insist that it’s on Craigslist, so he can’t stop them because here’s a copy saying everything is free to take. Apparently the fact that the owner says it’s not so, doesn’t count. A horde of greedy stupid belligerent people cleaned him out. They still left with his property after being told they were stealing it. At least the horse thief called back to be sure it was legitimate. One point to her for some brains, slow as she was on the uptake. She’d be the only one I didn’t prosecute. You can bet I’d watch eBay for a while too.
Wow, those people are lucky that he didn’t have a gun (or was it stolen too?)
Sounds like someone was mad at him and thought it’d be funny to get him back like this. Hopefully they’ll be caught soon.
Oh…on second reading, I see this has happened before. Awesome to see that they did catch the ad poster that time.
I sent this to my uncle, who lives near there, with the note ‘This is just nuts!’ He wrote:
Makes me really hope I haven’t made anybody that mad. I don’t really know how Craigslist works, but shouldn’t this have looked a little bit fishy to somebody there? Worth a phone call, at least, or something?
And I guess I’ll be joining that SD field trip to hell, because the first thought that crossed my mind was, “I’ll bet he doesn’t get his spoons back, either.”
There are a lot of people out there who feel overly entitled Why call and verify when you’ve got a piece of paper in hand justifying your behavior?
I don’t think it’s entitlement. The people who took the stuff had no reason to believe the ad might be fake and probably printed it out for the address.
That said, stuff like this is an excellent reason why the classified ads part of the site needs to be moderated by a local volunteer, such as verifying that the owner of the house is the person who placed the ad/opened the account. This is also the reason I don’t use Craigslist to find stuff; I don’t really want to be taken by some asshole who sells or gives away someone else’s stuff because of a grudge.
Robin
Anything new with the squatters? Post an update somewhere, please.
Except for the fact that when confronted by the owner of the stuff telling them they can’t have it because he owned it, they apparently waved around their CL printout saying, “But I have proof I can have it.”
I was going to point that out. Besides nobody gives away everything they own like that. I would have been calling the local police to go check out the property and find the owner, instead of going to rip this persons stuff off.
No, I’m out of the loop. I know we have caretakers in the house. Not sure where the squatters are. I think they’re mining on Federal land.
The article doesn’t mention if the contents of the house were taken as well- assuming the door was locked, I wonder how they gained entrance- did they break in to get the free stuff?
I was wondering about this as well. I can’t even imagine something like this happening to me.
You’re kidding me, right? “If it’s too good to be true, it probably isn’t” is no longer common sense? :dubious:
No way, Jose. Those people just used the ad to justify their thievery, and I bet most of them knew it.
This reminds me of the Doper that had a vacant log cabin that was stolen from their property last year.
I’m slightly surprised this didn’t end up with some craigslisters getting their brains blown out.
You can shoot people for stealing from you?
If you have a gun, you can shoot people. The question is whether it is justified.
Yes, it was the question.
Stealing your possessions doesn’t fall under a life threatening situation, so you’d be going to jail.
Unfortunately for that guy it’s not terribly uncommon for ads of that nature to turn up, legitimately, on Craig’s List. When my neighbor across the street sold his house it was full to the rafters with miscellaneous trash and junk and to get it outta there the realtors who bought it put up an “everything goes” CL ad. We had trucks and cars parked over there for three days as people went through the smell, rat infested garbage he left behind. Despite the best efforts of the CL people it still took 2 full drop boxes to get the rest of the nastiest shit out.
That being said, that’s a horrifying thing to come home to and whoever posted the ad needs an ass fulla buckshot.