Taking a Long Fly Fishing Trip? Better Not Tell Your Buddies…
By Tom Chandler on Mar 25, 2008 in News
Here’s a prank you’ll want to try on your best fishing buddy, only don’t expect him to still be your buddy when it’s over.
This poor bastard took a vacation, and while he was gone, someone posted a pair of Craigslist ads inviting the public to come and take what they wanted from his house.
Naturally, they did:
Two prank postings last weekend on Cragslist.com resulted in an Oregon man losing most of his personal possessions.
The ads popped up Saturday afternoon, claiming the owner of a home near Medford was forced to leave the area suddenly and his belongings, including a horse, were free for the taking, the Mail Tribune reports.
However, the man, Robert Salisbury, had no plans to leave. In fact, Salisbury was relaxing at a lake in southern Oregon when someone called him to make sure it was OK to take his horse. During his rush home, in a scene that could have com right out of “The Grapes Of Wrath,” Salisbury stopped a truck loaded down with his work ladders, lawn mower and various other pieces of equipment.
“I informed them I was the owner, but they refused to give the stuff back,” Salisbury told the Mail Tribune. “They showed me the Craigslist printout and told me they had the right to do what they did.”
When Salisbury got home, he found more than 30 people rummaging through his house and packing his belongings into their cars.
Most didn’t believe him when he said he was the owner, and in a stunning testimony to modern-day personal ethics, a few even lied to his face, suggesting that the owner had spoken to them and just left.
FOR THE RECORD, the Trout Underground will never, ever post an ad inviting its readers to avail themselves of his fly rod collection. Never.
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Kentucky Jim | Mar 25, 2008 | Reply
Zat why you’re not going to the Smokies this year? Damn! I did want to at least look at your bamboo collection.
Tom Chandler | Mar 26, 2008 | Reply
Anyone attempting illegal entry into the Trout Underground/Man Cave World Headquarters Rod Vault would face the vicious, human-eating Wally the Wonderdog.
The few who have survived the experience say it’s like coming face-to-tongue with the devil himself, only heavier, happier, and slobbier.
Don’t make the same mistake.
Hedon17 | Mar 26, 2008 | Reply
Don’t know if you get the local Medford stations in Mt Shasta but I get them here in Yreka so have been following this story on the local news.
One of the stations had an update yesterday and the newslady mentioned that the police are pretty certain that the posts on Craigslist came from a computer in the local area.
Ya Think?
The person who posted those messages would have to had intimate knowledge where he lived, his cell phone #, what he actually had on his property and that he would be out of town during the time the adds were posted.
Shouldn’t be too hard for the police to track down the person who posted those adds.