What proof you may be asking? What better proof than from the Craig Newmark blog itself or himself!

Evidence exhibit # 1

Craig Newmark gets stoned and stares outside his window for hours looking at birds and fantasizes about birds and more particularly female birds giving birth.

Evidence exhibit # 2

Craig Newmark gets high and wonders into the Gaza strip and goes to a farm growing tons of “algae”. Algae meaning “marijuana”. Good cover up Mr. Newmark, very good cover indeed.

Evidence exhibit # 3

Yet another strange photo of Craig Newmark and his fetish with wild birds. I mean seriously, who knows what a “black-headed grosbeaks” looks like. He spends hours going through bird books to learn what kinds of birds he is watching. Mr. Newmark is very rare, very rare indeed. This time Mr. Newmark is calling “marijuana”, “suet” What kind of a man likes to get birds high? I wonder what they would do high? Good question Mr. Newmark! I think Mr. Newmark has probably SEO’d more birds than any other bird watching blog out there. Seriously, do people actually watch birds?

Evidence exhibit # 4

Just like a pot smoking gay jewish man: he sees a fallen tree when people could be injured and takes a picture! “Dude…look at the cool tree in the middle of the street man. It’s like nature reclaiming its rightful land, sort of like the Jews man. Lets go smoke some pot. That was cool.”

Evidence exhibit # 5

Mr. Newmark is launching a new way for news to be disseminated and believed. Instead of letting the biased media make our news the reality, Mr. Newmark plans on empowering journalists around the world to create a “YouTube” news if you will, and mixing in Digg.com components to power the front page. Thus creating a truly democratic news agency. Too bad Mr. Newmark: Digg already has this area covered; good luck. Wait! Maybe Mr. Newmark is creating a Wikipedia so to speak for present day truth around the world. Possibly…but either way, its just like what a gay, jewish, post smoking hippy would do: control the media.

Evidence exhibit # 6

Mr. Newmark loves almond brioche at Amy’s Bread. Amy’s Bread has a four star rating on Yelp. Seems like something a pot smoker would love to eat after a wonderful blunt.

Well I hope you enjoyed my six pieces of evidence that prove Craig Newmark is indeed a pot smoking hipping, and the re-incarnation of Albert Einstein. And Albert Einstein is of course becoming more and more popular every day in the scientific community. I’m just kidding of course, I don’t know Craig Newmark, but I will say this: I’m sorry if I offended you Mr. Newmark and please don’t get mad I did screen captures of your website to make inflammatory remarks about you. Finally, I would like to say that Craig Newmark is the Einstein of the 21st century. I have a feeling that craigslist or ProPublica is going to become an international breakthrough that will help liberate the world’s many illnesses. Whether or not he is gay, jewish, a pot smoking hipping, or the re-incarnation of Albert Einstein; I don’t know - it was just a joke to get YOU to read this blog

I think I saw this in a dream one day actually happening: Craigslist growing so much that 30 billion dollar eBay is slowly going out of business. Is eBay so concerned of craigslist that their willing to sink these lows? Is craigslist so damn smart that they think they can win a court case based on the belief: the “man” fucked us man…and we want our company back. Newmark and Buckmaster: grow the fuck up and make some damn money. eBay is just pissed your not maximizing their investment position. eBay believes that “yeah, we own 25% of a company, and what does that do for us - very very little to our bottom line. Since we don’t own the company lets at least make some money on this bitch.” So eBay basically wants to unlock craigslist’s true value by taking it to the market and freeing up their non-capitalist approach to doing business. Little does eBay know that even if they can “unlock” craigslist they are still screwed, because you don’t own craigslist, and no matter how hard you try I doubt that those communist anti-capitalist bastards will ever sell the company. Sorry eBay, CL has a better product than you; eBay sucks. I officially announce that eBay is dying! Mark my words on this day (5/14/08) eBay’s stock price will continue to go lower and lower, till it is work about $10 Billion.

My future prediction on what will happen with this law suit controversy is: craigslist and eBay will be tied up in court for years, and the winner will be craigslist. It will take eBay so long to unlock craigslist they will become so weak in the end they will end up dying.

Another theory why Craigslist owners and operators won’t sell out the company by going public or putting ads on their site - They are an advertising website, people just dont realize it. If they put Adsense or banners on their site it will no longer be a “Zen” website and thus it will screw with their San Franciscan Karma. Craigslist is run by a bunch of hippies that smoke a ton of pot.

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I was recently searching for a used laptop on Craigslist in Chicago, IL for my girlfriend. I came across a wonderful Sony laptop that was well priced, almost brand new, and what I thought was a local item on craigslist:

I got the old bait and switch when I received this email back after contacting the seller.

How do I know this is a scam?

• Seller stated she was from Chicago - then pulled a bait and switch and is now in the UK
• It is a she - most people trust women for some reason more than men
• The product is priced extremely well and at a believable rate
• Photos look like they were shot with a personal digital camera and not taken from an ecommerce website
• Seller is from the UK, not an African nation that is associated with scams like this

When purchasing from Craigslist only purchase local goods. I usually have sellers bring the items I purchase to my home or office - and I give them an extra five or ten dollars from this. But be warned, don’t purchase outside your own city on craigslist, especially not a high priced item like a laptop from someone in the UK or any country for that matter. This was one of the cleanest and believable scams I have seen in a while, I imagine quite a few people are getting taken for some nice pocket change. If you have been scammed in a similar manner, or even scammed by this same thing, please leave your comments and help make other more aware.