Craigslist
This missed connection ad on Craigslist reads like a modern day love poem. Bearded men of Boston...pull your faces out of the PBR pitcher, it looks like someone has their eye on you...
http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/mis/1567745744.html
Hard to say who's worst this morning: The Globe for its continuing front page campaign on the evils of Craigslist or Craigslist's CEO for denying people advertise for sex on Craigslist:
"I would not describe any section of our site as 'sex related,' " Buckmaster wrote in response to a series of e-mailed questions from the Globe.
Can I get an O RLY, please?
The story placement kinda detracts from this well written how-they-did it story on how detectives decided Markoff was their man.
Sources close to the investigation of Philip Markoff have leaked new details of evidence found during a search of his Quincy apartment. It turns out underwear from two of the victims and a gun in a hollowed out copy of a "Gray's Anatomy" textbook were found.
Maybe I wasn't that far off with my dramatization after all.
Mike Mennonno and his roommate have an open room near Davis Square. He posts some of the replies to their Craigslist ad (names redacted to protect the clueless).
No, really. Jason Feifer details the scam, along with a couple of tips: Never send anybody money in advance just to see a place, and never trust somebody named Louis Pontecorvo.
From Craigslist, where anything goes:
If you're a midget (or someone small in stature) and are looking to make some money....we are having a St Patrick's Party (great group of people) and would like to hire someone to pose as a leprechaun and serve drinks. You must be 21 + and have a great personality! Leprechaun costume a plus.You'll have a great time too! Compensation negotiable.
Via Othniel.
Craigslist or Craigslust?
Scores of Boston-area hookers are using a major Internet site popular with soccer moms, apartment seekers and job hunters to post hundreds of daily pornographic ads for unbridled sex romps that can be set up within minutes. ...
Craigslist is popular with soccer moms? In any case, Carpundit hopes the Herald follows up on this shocking story:
... I'd like to know what's in the Boston Yellow Pages, and maybe even in the back of The Phoenix or Improper Bostonian. ...
My standard newspaper disclosure.
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