House is stripped via fake Craig's List (http://www.craigslist.org) ad

This is one of the more horrible stories that I've read recently. Basically, someone seems to have been mad at a woman and placed a free classified on Craigslist telling people to come and take everything from her house. While the ad was taken down within two hours, the damage was done and everything was removed from the house by numerous people who responded to the "ad." While you can't really blame the "looters," because free ads are placed all the time on Craigslist, it's pretty sickeningly brilliant, yet horrible that someone had a bunch of complete strangers carry out what was inevitably his or her own dirty work.

Now that the story has gathered national attention, maybe the police will actually care about the issue and do more than paperwork to solve it. Unlike my car getting stolen, when I was comforted by the words of my local Culver City police officer with the words of, "There's no way your car is coming back. This happens all the time."

Thanks, officer. My dreams of police officers taking prints and going to the scene (they told me to drive to the police station if I wanted to fill out a report, after my car got stolen! At least Enterprise Rent-a-Car will pick you up!) are long gone. Hopefully, Laurie Raye finds some justice and some peace after becoming the victim of a prank gone horribly wrong or a malicious act that unfortunately went right.