What weird/outrageous requests have you seen on Freecycle/Craigslist?

[Lorelei_Evil]

That's some serious delusion right there.
 

[Kaora]

This just made me burst out into loud laughing a few minutes ago, and I knew I had to share it. Is anyone else old enough to remember 8-track tape systems? Here is part of the ad:


Very RARE Vintage 8-Track Player NEVER Taken Out Of Bag - $329

Figuratively speaking, this 8-Track Player might be worth its weight in gold. It doesn't get any more mint than this. The plastic bag has never been opened. The piece of tape holding the plastic bag closed is intact showing that it's never been removed.

Since the bag has never been opened, this unit has top value. It doesn't get any better than this.

Great advertising, will still eat your tapes like a goat.

[BusyBee]

I don't think this has been posted before, but I think of it every time this thread pops up
Christmas 1958 - Little Craig's List

[Minmom3]

Oh, the entitlement . . . This guy has been spamming the heck out of our housing site and getting his ads repeatedly deleted. 
Clipped!!!!

TWO protective but not mean biting 1 large 1 medium sized dogs. Would really like to be in the hills or near the COAST and OCEAN

CAN PAY ELEC or use GENERATOR.
I use little electric due to using SOLAR and SOLAR LIGHTS.

But living space must be FREE or VERY VERY CHEAP to stay there for LANDSITTING LAND SITTER.

NOTE* 420 215 patient - if you are NOT 420 FRIENDLY... not need bother. I grow my LEGAL LIMIT only.[/i]

And let me TELL you, that generator is PLEASANT to live close to.  Notsomuch...     Our (presumed) druggie neighbors, directly across the street, lost their power when the house was condemned.  They still live there.  The sheriff still visits.  Odd people still pull up and yell at any given hour of the day or night, and/or pound on the gate.  The front gate still falls down in a windstorm.  They will work on said gate at any time from 4 a.m. to midnight.  For weeks.  The generator - is LOUD.  I feel for the neighbors to each side; at least I'm 50+ feet away, across a 2 lane highway.  Nearly 24/7 that thing is obnoxious as all get out.  Just today, when DH was sitting out front having a smoke, some old fart came up and bleared his way through asking if DH had a wife, if wife knew the lady who used to live in the druggie house.  DH was very kind and let him ramble on and on and on....  Took him at least 10 minutes to beat around the bush.  Told him we didn't know anybody over there, sorry.

I live in a very 'smoky' county in California, and I'd bet solid money most of my neighbors DO smoke, but those twits across the road are obnoxious.  I wouldn't wish them or anybody like them on anybody!

[ladyknight1]

A toddler.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/16/stephanie-redus-son-adoption-craigslist_n_3285252.html

[ica171]

I kind of feel bad for her, that she felt she was in a bad place but didn't have anyone she could reach out to to help her.

[Amara]

Title of ad. Anyone need one?

Decorative whine bottle holder - $5

[lemonfloorwax]

Title of ad. Anyone need one?

Decorative whine bottle holder - $5

I don't bottle my whine. That's unhealthy. I let it flow freely as needed. 
Now if I could bottle my KIDS' whine, I would do that in a heartbeat.

[Sophia]

I feel bad for the mom.  I understand the kids being in CPS, but the mom was obviously nuts.  Now, if they'd had an undercover cop offer to adopt her kid, and she handed him over.  Then I'd feel different.
I feel bad for the boy though.  The article mentioned kids plural, but only one was offered up for adoption.

[ica171]

I feel bad for the mom.  I understand the kids being in CPS, but the mom was obviously nuts.  Now, if they'd had an undercover cop offer to adopt her kid, and she handed him over.  Then I'd feel different.
I feel bad for the boy though.  The article mentioned kids plural, but only one was offered up for adoption.

It mentioned she was pregnant; I wonder if she gave birth between the time the ad was posted and now.

[amylouky]

I feel bad for the mom.  I understand the kids being in CPS, but the mom was obviously nuts.  Now, if they'd had an undercover cop offer to adopt her kid, and she handed him over.  Then I'd feel different.
I feel bad for the boy though.  The article mentioned kids plural, but only one was offered up for adoption.

I feel bad for her, too, and I really don't understand CPS taking the kids. Unless there's more to the story, she wasn't abusing or neglecting him. The weird thing is, if she were in another state where adoption advertising is legal (it's different from state to state) she'd be in no trouble at all. Yes, it's a sad situation but it IS legal to put your kids up for adoption, just not to advertise it in some states unless you're a licensed adoption agency.

[ica171]

I feel bad for the mom.  I understand the kids being in CPS, but the mom was obviously nuts.  Now, if they'd had an undercover cop offer to adopt her kid, and she handed him over.  Then I'd feel different.
I feel bad for the boy though.  The article mentioned kids plural, but only one was offered up for adoption.

I feel bad for her, too, and I really don't understand CPS taking the kids. Unless there's more to the story, she wasn't abusing or neglecting him. The weird thing is, if she were in another state where adoption advertising is legal (it's different from state to state) she'd be in no trouble at all. Yes, it's a sad situation but it IS legal to put your kids up for adoption, just not to advertise it in some states unless you're a licensed adoption agency.

I kind of thought the same thing. She wasn't trying to sell the kid. If she had called CPS and said "I'm feeling overwhelmed and like I can't handle my children" they wouldn't have taken them unless she was putting them in danger. They would have given her resources to help her cope.

[amylouky]

I feel bad for the mom.  I understand the kids being in CPS, but the mom was obviously nuts.  Now, if they'd had an undercover cop offer to adopt her kid, and she handed him over.  Then I'd feel different.
I feel bad for the boy though.  The article mentioned kids plural, but only one was offered up for adoption.

I feel bad for her, too, and I really don't understand CPS taking the kids. Unless there's more to the story, she wasn't abusing or neglecting him. The weird thing is, if she were in another state where adoption advertising is legal (it's different from state to state) she'd be in no trouble at all. Yes, it's a sad situation but it IS legal to put your kids up for adoption, just not to advertise it in some states unless you're a licensed adoption agency.

I kind of thought the same thing. She wasn't trying to sell the kid. If she had called CPS and said "I'm feeling overwhelmed and like I can't handle my children" they wouldn't have taken them unless she was putting them in danger. They would have given her resources to help her cope.

Maybe it was the not taking medicines for her mental health issues part. Anyway I think criminal charges and taking the kids was a jerk move on the part of the cops/CPS.. hopefully things get straightened out for them soon.

It reminds me of a mom here in my town who snapped and abandoned her daugher at a warehouse store, very publicly, recently. The media blasted her, everyone was calling her a horrible person and mother, and I was just thinking, "that poor family needs help!"

[Slartibartfast]

Not a request, but too good not to share: http://up.craigslist.org/laf/3921535001.html

(image kinda NSFW in the US, but funny post!)

[laud_shy_girl]

I feel bad for the mom.  I understand the kids being in CPS, but the mom was obviously nuts.  Now, if they'd had an undercover cop offer to adopt her kid, and she handed him over.  Then I'd feel different.
I feel bad for the boy though.  The article mentioned kids plural, but only one was offered up for adoption.

I feel bad for her, too, and I really don't understand CPS taking the kids. Unless there's more to the story, she wasn't abusing or neglecting him. The weird thing is, if she were in another state where adoption advertising is legal (it's different from state to state) she'd be in no trouble at all. Yes, it's a sad situation but it IS legal to put your kids up for adoption, just not to advertise it in some states unless you're a licensed adoption agency.

I kind of thought the same thing. She wasn't trying to sell the kid. If she had called CPS and said "I'm feeling overwhelmed and like I can't handle my children" they wouldn't have taken them unless she was putting them in danger. They would have given her resources to help her cope.

Maybe it was the not taking medicines for her mental health issues part. Anyway I think criminal charges and taking the kids was a jerk move on the part of the cops/CPS.. hopefully things get straightened out for them soon.

It reminds me of a mom here in my town who snapped and abandoned her daugher at a warehouse store, very publicly, recently. The media blasted her, everyone was calling her a horrible person and mother, and I was just thinking, "that poor family needs help!"

There are many drugs in the drug family used for depression etc that you just can NOT take while pregnant. So I took this as she wasn't taking them because she couldn't not wouldn't.

I pod, this seems more a cry for help than bad mothering. Unless they took them away at her request or 'as other posters said' there is more to the story, I think what they did was just plain wrong.