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When you are trying pull off a casino heist, advertising on Craigslist probably isn't the best way to round up a crew. A man who said a Craigslist ad led him to take part in an attempt to steal high-stakes chips from a Vegas Strip casino amid a cloud of pepper spray is facing an evidence hearing in June. Comments

The TSA’s Freudian Craigslist Slip Either someone just attempted the subtlest of jabs at our nation's force of uncomfortably invasive rent-a-cops or the recruiters at the Transportation Security Administration need to invest in a better thesaurus. A job posting on the Ann Arbor, Michigan Craigslist invites would-be screeners to "[b]e part of a imperious security team protecting airports and skies as you proudly establish your future." Imperious, indeed. The Dictionary.com definition of imperious is "domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing." The definition from Google is even better, describing it as "assuming authority without justification." If it was a joke...

A new study from the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism highlights an alarming trend among newspapers hoping to carve out a modicum of profitability through digital ad revenues: with very few exceptions, news organizations are failing to cash in on a lucrative form of online advertising. While it's long been held that utilizing consumer data to match advertisers with targeted consumers is "the strategy that many experts consider key to the future of digital revenue," the Pew study reveals, "With only a handful of exceptions, the ads on news sites tend not to be targeted based on...

Congressional support for controversial online piracy legislation eroded dramatically on Wednesday in the face of an unprecedented online protest supported by tech titans such as Google, Wikipedia and Facebook. Several key senators withdrew their support from the Senate's Protect IP Act (PIPA), including Tea Party favorite Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), an elected member of his party's leadership. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), who leads the Senate GOP's campaign team, said the legislation should be put on hold, while Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), a sponsor and the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, retreated from the...

I was unintelligent and posted an item on Craig's List for an amount that I thought it might move. I get a bite immediately and the guy haggles further to get me to include the shipping. My wife then hears what I've done and looks up on the internet a similar item listed for oh, say, 35 times more. How obligated am I to go through with the deal? The guy knows the true value of this item, where I did not. Now that I do, is it too late to renegotiate or am I obligated to receive his money...

Listings websites "really needs to clean up its act," sez Hizzoner The notorious “gun show loophole” that gives criminals and maniacs easy access to firearms has gone online. Undercover investigators for the city found thousands of guns - including one just like the 9mm Ruger that killed Officer Peter Figoski on Monday - being sold online by private peddlers who don’t have to perform background checks on buyers. Not only did investigators find it a breeze to buy pistols and assault rifles with no questions asked, but 77 of 125 sellers in 14 states agreed to complete the sale even...

The Occupy Movement has given us reporters plenty of fodder for good stories -- some informative and others entertaining. And while it appears Occupy SF has ceased to exist as a camp since police raided the encampment on Wednesday, there are still plenty of amusing stories to tell. For instance, this San Francisco guy is desperate to reoccupy the Financial District, which is why he is looking for someone to help him set up his tent -- and occupy it with him. So he did what any normal searching San Franciscan would do: He posted an ad on Craigslist. Although...

A body discovered by authorities Friday morning in Akron may be that of a missing Jackson Township man. The body of a man was found in a shallow grave behind Rolling Acres Mall, said FBI Special Agent Vicki Anderson. She said the identity of the man has not yet been confirmed. An ambulance carrying the body left the scene around 1:40 p.m. to the Summit County Medical Examiner’s Office. Investigators are working at a wooded area on the north side of the mall, north of Harlem Street. “We had information to go looking there,” Anderson said. Anderson declined to say...

A 32-year-old Webster man who allegedly advertised as a babysitter on Craigslist has been charged with sexually assaulting one of his charges. Steven P. Knox is free on $30,000 bond after being arrested Thursday on a charge of aggravated sexual assault of a child under the age of 14. According to court records, a 6-year-old girl told investigators that Knox, whom she knew as her babysitter, put his finger in her private area four times. The girl said Knox had put "ice" on his finger and that the penetration had burned. The assault allegedly took place at Knox's home on...

Authorities in Ohio have implicated a high school junior in the death of a Florida man whose body was found in a shallow grave after he responded to a bogus Craigslist ad for a job on a cattle farm. The Florida man's death came to light after police were contacted Nov. 6 by a South Carolina man who answered the same fake ad. The man told police that he had been shot, but escaped by running away through the woods, according to Noble County Sheriff Stephen Hannum. The crimes occurred in a remote area outside Caldwell in southeastern Ohio, about...

A 25-year-old student who had her bike stolen turned the tables on the thief after finding it posted up for sale on Craigslist. Kathryn Lucas from Colorado used the website to track down her stolen bike and posed as an interested buyer before stealing it back after going on a 'test-ride'. ... After filing a police report, she began searching Craigslist to see if the thief was trying to sell the bike. Sure enough, Miss Lucas spotted a posting with a photo of her bike after recognising her bike’s red handle-bar tape and her water bottle holder. She responded to...

I get this strange feeling that the people in the White House think this is brilliant. Prod. & Vid. wanted for OWS reporting Calling all videographers and producers who want to spread the word about the Occupy Wall Street movement. A Truthdig.com reporter seeks to chart the events that led to the collapse of the United States over the last 30 years and determine what the 99% can do about it. The project involves a series of interviews with experts on key political and economic issues and will be centered in New York City. Here is a link to a...

Are YOU one of the 99% and want to Occupy an activist occupation!? Join WashingtonCAN! in it's fight for economic and racial justice! WashingtonCAN! is looking for motivated and articulate people to help make sure that the banks, corporations and the wealthiest amongst us do their fair share! We are the state's largest non-profit lobbying organization with over 30,000 members. Our focus is socio-economic and racial justice issues. LGBTQ friendly, EOE (diversity encouraged), fun work environment, benefits and opportunity for growth. Staff average $12 - $16 an hour with bonus on top of base pay. Benefits include medical, dental and...

http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/gov/2618821815.html The Working Families Party (WFP) (www.workingfamiliesparty.org) is New York's most energetic, independent and progressive political party. Formed in 1998 by a grassroots coalition of community organizations, neighborhood activists, and labor unions, we came together to build a society that works for all of us, not just Wall Street CEOs and the well-connected. WFP is independent from corporate and government funding and in-addition we are community based; community funded and equally uninfluenced by both major parties. Our agenda focuses on economic and social justice, corporate accountability, job creation, environmental protection, and investment in education and healthcare. For the past twelve...

If I sell online, can I get scammed if they pay me thru Paypal?

URGENT! TELEPROMPTER + OPERATOR NEEDED (Los Angeles) Date: 2011-09-05, 10:04PM PDT Reply to: job-3g2uj-2584127854@craigslist.org Urgently seeking teleprompter and operator for press conference at 2 PM on September 6, 2011. Please only serious inquires reply immediately! * Location: Los Angeles * Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster. * Please, no phone calls about this job! * Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. -- Police said a man who told Channel 2 Action News that he was a robbery victim is actually the robber. DeKalb County police arrested Mahad Said and charged him with robbery one day after Said claimed a gunman robbed him. The real victim, Hashim Fannin, told Channel 2's Tom Jones that Said is one dumb criminal. "Since he went out and made this report, and went on television and all of that, that made it pretty easy to track him down," Fannin said. Said had said that a man he met on Craigslist tried to rob...

BRADENTON - The self-employed operator of a home day care center in Sarasota is accused of placing a Craigslist ad in which she claimed to be her husband's ex-wife soliciting sex with strangers. The falsified ad led the victim to receive numerous phone calls, text messages and home visits from male strangers, frightening her and making her concerned about her children's safety, according to a police report.

The Federal Trade Commission has approved a controversial firm which scours social media sites to check on job applicants. It means anything you've ever said in public on sites including Facebook, Twitter and even Craigslist could be seen by your would-be employer. The Washington-based commission has ruled the firm, Social Intelligence Corporation, complies with the Fair Credit Reporting Act - even though it keeps the results of its searches on file for seven years.

What kind of a guy actually places an ad on Craigslist seeking to purchase marijuana?

SAN DIEGO – An 18-year-old college student died from a bullet to his chest as he chased three teens who robbed him and his girlfriend when he was buying a computer advertised on Craigslist for $600, a prosecutor said Friday...

SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – Three dozen Crips street gang members and two motel owners have been indicted for running a prostitution ring that targeted underage girls through social networking sites including MySpace, Craigslist, Twitter and Facebook, prosecutors said on Monday. The U.S. District Court indictment, unsealed on Monday, alleges that several former rival factions of the gang worked together to recruit new prostitutes by targeting underage girls from broken homes. Writing letters from prison as well as establishing contact using MySpace, Twitter and Facebook, the gang members gained control over the girls and then advertised them using Craigslist and Backpage.com,...

Seeking One Gorgeous Female For Photo Opportunity (downtown / civic / van ness) Date: 2011-04-16, 11:24AM PDT Reply to: gigs-gqtxs-2329039352@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?] US President Barrack Obama will be visiting San Francisco this Wednesday through Thursday. I will be attending a private dinner for him with 150 high profile people. My date had an unexpected emergency and will be out of town. Anyone care to join me? This is a black-tie affair, so if you don't have formal attire, I'll take you shopping,,,pronto! Reply with: Name Phone Number Age Height and Weight Dress Size and Shoe Size Include...

One of the latest four sets of remains found on a Long Island beach linked to the Craigslist Ripper belongs to a baby or child - and not a grown woman, it was revealed today. The remains were found last week among four sets of bodies several miles away from where the bodies of four prostitutes were located in December. But the victim may not be related to the other New York murders as a young person’s body ‘would not fit a serial killer’s pattern’, according to law enforcement sources.

America’s self-described toughest sheriff has issued a warning to the CEO of Craigslist saying the popular Internet website is providing a “mechanism to facilitate criminal activity.” Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s warning to Jim Buckmaster follows the arrest last month in Arizona by Maricopa County Sheriff's Office detectives of two men — one a middle school teacher and the other a handyman — on charges of conspiracy to commit bestiality. Sheriff Arpaio said an undercover investigation by his office began after detectives became aware that persons in the Phoenix area were using Craigslist to engage in illegal acts with animals. Detectives set...

Craigslist has become a "cesspool of crime" and has been linked to 20 murders in the past three and a half years, according to a research firm commissioned by a competitor. A report released Thursday by AIM Group claims 330 crimes have been linked by law enforcement to the site, which allows users to post free online classified ads. Among those are the victims of the so-called "Craigslist serial killer" that has recently been targeting prostitutes on Long Island, N.Y. "Sadly, Craigslist has become a cesspool of crime," said AIM Group founder Peter Zollman. Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster responded on...

BISMARCK, N.D., A North Dakota woman says she produces so much breast milk she's offering it for sale on Craigslist. Breanna Clemons, 26, of Bismarck told The Grand Forks Herald, "As we speak, I have over 200 bags." She is asking $2 per ounce but says she is mainly trying to help mothers who cannot nurse and whose babies cannot drink formula. "If someone were to inquire, I would pump it and store it, so it would be as fresh as possible for them," she said. So far, Clemons, who is married and has two young children, has had no...

Source: Rep. Chris Lee (R-NY) has RESIGNED after being caught up in alleged craigslist cheating scandal.

Someone JUST hacked my craigslist account. I don't have a clue as to how they did it, but they posted four ads in the Westchester, NY area using my craigslist e-mail. Beats my four aces as to how they did it. I've deleted the cell phone ads, changed my password AND changed the receiving e-mail on the account. Does anyone have ANY idea as to how they hacked my craigslist account? Or, has craigslist suffered a major identity theft from its database?

SANFORD, Fla. -- Surveillance video from a Sanford Walmart helped lead detectives to a suspect in the theft of more than $1,000 of computer hardware. The video shows a woman hanging out in the electronics section, and then placing external hard drives in a bag under her shirt, police said. Police said the woman then went into the bathroom, dumped the security chip in the packaging and left the store. Investigators went to Craigslist and found the same hard drives for sale. Undercover officers then set up a meeting with the woman and offered to purchase the hardware. Police said...

Well, well. I was scouring the Internet and came across something worthy of mention – none other than a Craigslist posting from Mr. Creeper himself, Julian Assange. Wikileaks dude! Seems like the type of chick he’s looking for is a woman who’s not afraid to get night-sticked on the street of Athens and who’s an avowed vegan. Now who would’ve guessed that, eh? Snort. See below! H/T goes to Brett Winterble of Covert Radio.

AN ANGEL IN THE POST OFFICE Date: 2007-11-23, 10:55PM MST This is one of the kindest things I've ever experienced. I have no way to know who sent it, but there is a kind soul working in the dead letter office of the US postal service. Our 14 year old dog, Abbey, died last month. The day after she died, my 4 year old daughter Meredith was crying and talking about how much she missed Abbey. She asked if we could write a letter to God so that when Abbey got to heaven, God would recognize her. I told her...

This is the politics forum at Craigslist, similar to DU with every vile Leftist known to man spewing garbage and hate towards Capitalism, Palin, Bush and anything Conservative. Many are paid Soros trolls and Sunstein government plants pushing the Obama agenda. It's comedy, I like to mix it up there sometimes, they are truly deranged. Give it a whirl, you need to register first, it makes me feel good to see that about 25% of us are on there, but the paid Marxists scream and insult you, I fight back.

NPR will be one of the dominant forces in media in ten years because their membership-based funding model is finely tuned to the habits of millennial news consumers. That's the prophecy of Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist and a new media philosopher.  "Only very recently have I been thinking about the successful news organizations, he said, responding to a question from James Fallows at the Washington Ideas Forum. "I have a feeling that membership models and philanthrophy models will be stronger than advertising-supported models, people will be willing to pay for news they can trust." And trust, he said, "is...

Craigslist has made tens of millions of dollars off sex ads, which have facilitated child sex trafficking, and part of that money is in Democratic campaign coffers. President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.), Sen. Barbara Boxer (D.-Calif.) and Sen. Al Franken (D.-Minn.) are among the politicians who have accepted the $83,800 in donations that Craigslist founder Craig Newmark donated to Democrats.

In these tough economic times, many people are looking for a career change. Having been canned from jobs they’d previously found tedious and unfulfilling, they hunger for new challenges in different fields. If you’re one of those people, maybe you should consider a career in international espionage and counterterrorism! But how can I find a job in a field like that, you ask. I don’t have any military or CIA experience! How can I, an average Joe, even find out about jobs in the competitive, one might even say cutthroat, field of covert operations? Well, average Joe, these are the...

Read this story first: Boise Police: man gets robbed after responding to Craigslist ad for iPad Excerpt: Boise police are looking for a group of men who robbed another man at gunpoint outside an apartment building off West State Street Monday night. The victim told police he was responding to a Craigslist ad from someone who said he was selling an iPad — Apple’s popular tablet computer — and said he was robbed of several hundred dollars in cash.

Karen B., a Los Angeles writer in her 40s, found a sperm donor on Craigslist after she and her lesbian partner decided to have a baby. "I tried every male friend, gay, straight, married and single, but it was really difficult to find somebody," said Karen. "I was running out of options and my biological clock was ticking." After connecting on the Internet, she and the donor, Daniel C., signed a layman's agreement that the child would live with Karen and she would make all parenting decisions. He would have some visitation rights. "I always wanted the baby to know...

Ruth Marcus of The Washington Post accuses Sarah Palin of offending homosexuals when she remarked that the author of a Vanity Fair hatchet job about her was “impotent and limp and gutless.” Marcus wrote, “The Vanity Fair writer, Michael Joseph Gross, is gay, which makes matters worse—conjuring the stereotype of ‘limp-wristed.’ But whatever the sexual orientation of the offending reporter, Palin should not have been questioning his manhood.” Palin had every right to question his manhood, since he is not a man in the traditional sense and wrote a cowardly piece. But her remarks were probably directed at his “journalism,”...

CHICAGO (CBS) ― Craigslist appears to have surrendered in a legal fight over erotic ads posted on its website, shutting down its adult services section Saturday and replacing it with a black bar that simply says "censored." The move comes just over a week after a group of state attorneys general said there weren't enough protections against blocking potentially illegal ads promoting prostitution. It's not clear if the closure is permanent, and it appears to only affect ads in the United States. The listings came under new scrutiny after the jailhouse suicide last month of a former medical student who...

Craigslist Killer" Phillip Markoff created a ghoulish shrine to his former fiancee before he died, spreading out photos of her on the small table in his cell and scrawling her name in his own blood over his cell door where guards would not easily see it, ABC News has learned.

POLK COUNTY, Fla. -- Fifteen men were arrested in an undercover sex sting in Polk County that spanned four days and ended Sunday. Sheriff’s deputies said the men wanted to have sex with children. Deputies said the 15 men they arrested included an airline employee and a man who a sergeant recognized as his son's little league coach. "They're nasty individuals and they need to be exactly where we're putting them, in prison," Sheriff Grady Judd said.The arrests made by the Polk County Sheriff's Office were men who answered ads on Craigslist. During the investigation, from Thursday, August 12, through...

Authorities say the former Boston University medical student accused of killing a masseuse he met through Craigslist is dead from an apparent jailhouse suicide in Boston. Ed Geary, a spokesman for the Suffolk County sheriff's office, says Philip Markoff was declared dead by emergency medical workers at about 10:15 Sunday morning. The body was found in the Nashua Street Jail. "Sad to say, it's very true. It's shocking and very saddening," Markoff's defense attorney John Salsberg told the BostonHerald.com.

Industrious student engineers a way to solicit help onlineConsidering what's going on these days at California colleges and universities -- budgets down and fees up -- financial aid is more important than ever for just about any student. But for one creative student in Northern California, financial aid doesn't always come from traditional sources. Giancarlo Santa Cruz is an aspiring civil engineer putting his mind to work figuring out how he'll pay for next semester at Santa Rosa Junior College before heading to Sacramento State. His parents are facing their own financial issues, so they can't help. He’s applied for...

Starting with an old cell phone a friend gave him, 17-year-old Steven Ortiz of Glendora, CA, used Craigslist to trade up 14 times over two years and eventually end up with a Porsche Boxster. Here's how he did it. Although Oritz's story isn't the first time we've seen Craigslist-swapping writ large, it's the first one we've seen that doesn't include any outside help. You may remember Kyle MacDonald, who famously created a website to document his attempt to trade one red paperclip for a house. It worked. But MacDonald also had a built-in fanbase and publicity from his website. Ortiz,...

3 teens accused of using AK-47s to rob Craigslist sellersRule #1 for Craigslist shoppers and sellers: Never show up unarmed, or worse, unaware - especially when you’re selling expensive merchandise. Apparently Craigslist salesmen Causey and Derrick Pomare didn’t get the memo. The two were robbed of an expensive motorcycle at gunpoint after negotiating the terms of sale on Craigslist.org. Police said the deal didn't include the AK-47 assault rifles. The Pomare brothers were told to come to an unspecified location to drop off the motorcycle and receive the cash for their 2003 Kawasaki motorcycle. But when the potential buyers showed...

Sgt. Thomas Bingham, the police spokesman, said a man brought the left leg in after it apparently washed ashore, also posting the missing limb on jacksonville.craigslist.org. "There are no markings on it except for a Willie Nelson sticker," Bingham said. "It's kind of hard to forget." The sergeant said the prosthetic leg has a distinctive coloration and markings, so whoever lost it should be able to identify it if they come to the department at 101 S. Penman Road. The owner can also call the police department property room at (904) 247-6196 between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m. weekdays.