The Dark Side Of Craigslist

Love Thy Neighbor

In 2010 a Connecticut man, Philip James Conran, posted an ad on Craigslist while posing as a bored soccer mom who requested that men come to her house to “go all the way” as a group, saying she wanted to “please as many as I can before I go to work!” Conran provided the address of a neighbor with whom he was in the middle of an embittered feud.

People started coming to the neighbor’s home, but luckily they were turned away and their license plates were noted. The police were alerted and charged Conran with reckless endangerment, harassment, criminal trespass and risk of injury to a minor. While the neighbor had children living in her home, one of the ad respondents allegedly showed up to the wrong house and groped an 18-year-old girl.