I understand why people would feel like they couldn't talk about this. If we're being honest about feelings here, I honestly felt no sympathy for the women above. To be honest, I saved all my sympathy for their children.

So the racist guy lives up to every part of the stereotype, from demanding which "kinds" of guys she likes through filthy language and a stop at Station Free Speech. I'd swear it was some kind of performance art if I wasn't depressingly positive that this is a real person who thinks this is some kind of debate in…

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We were in a family-friendly restaurant, around 6:30pm, and I was wearing a loose-fitting, long sleeve shirt, jeans, and no makeup...so I'm not sure where the confusion arose as to what kind of service you were being provided.

Maybe she came across as the lunatic that she is, that the seller didn't want her buying her house. Or maybe she offered the money after it went into contract.

Also, the "prankster" is claiming that she "can't" go to jail for this because who will take care of her husband & daughter?!

Definitely not pranks. This woman did this for months, spent a ton of money & time on this. It sounds like stalking. So fucking creepy.

Given the California housing market, it's possible the reason she didn't hear back from the seller is that the buyers offered considerably more than $100K over asking. In the Bay Area, $800K is dirt cheap for a house ~ pretty much unheard of, actually ~ but this happened a couple of years ago in San Diego, where the…

I was reading bits of this to my SO and felt pretty uncomfortable calling it a prank.

For real? The men are under the impression that the victim is consenting to an elaborate role play.

'soliciting a rape' perhaps? I'm totally with you, the CL ads are NOT 'pranks'. Pranks implies harmless fun and those ads were encouraging nothing fun

...thought they had the wrong house....? Whoopsie, raped the wrong person. My bad. Seriously, wouldn't that maybe give a person pause? Doing this sight unseen? Hey, maybe some people are into that. But you meet up beforehand and make arrangements, set up safewords.

If they neither raped or attempted to rape her, I'm not sure what they should be punished for. It sounds like they did the right thing in confirming that she did indeed want to have sex with them before trying to forcibly sleep with her.

I honestly don't know if that's a fair thing to say. People have weird fantasies, and as deeply uncomfortable as those fantasies make me, I don't think they necessarily mean that they would be raspists (and there is something VERY disturbing about putting people into a database based on their sexual predilections).…

No kidding. Especially after that email, how could any judge truly believe she "meant no harm"?

It's not attempted rape because of the consent that was issued in the ad beforehand. At least that fact would make it difficult to needlessly charge people answering fantasy ads with a sex crime.

I don't think that's fair. Exploring fantasies in a consensual context is not the same thing as actually raping someone. Especially as these men obviously stopped as soon as there was the slightest suspicion that this woman was not consenting. If your theory was accurate, they would have carried on, because there…

Is it weird that, as a native San Franciscan, $800k still seems super freakin' cheap for a 3 bedroom house in a nice neighborhood (my parents rented, but I helped out a real estate agent for clerical stuff).

I said this in another reply, but the men that showed up at the house answering the ad should at the least be put on a watchlist and have their DNA in a criminal database, and at most should be charged with attempted rape. Anyone answering an ad like that is hoping they will get to rape someone for real and blame it…

I know it's odd how some stories just stick with you. Man I can't believe someone was willing to throw those charges out. She wanted that family punished and scared away from their home.