This just might become a new feature! You see a lot of odd things on Craigslist.org. It's humanity, distilled down onto one web page and there are no holds barred. People solicit, sell goods, buy goods, and often act out to the fullest extent possible in a mostly anonymous forum.

(© Lester Wall, Veni, Vidi, Voce)

Now I won't bore you with the usual "Selling 2003 Nissan Sentra - no title" stuff. These people are a dime a dozen, with excuses from bureaucratic error to "the dog ate it". You just chuckle and move on. Today, however, I came across one of the true classics. An individual that stretches reality and truth so much as to result in total comedy. Yuyz4 of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin posts this in the "Free" section of Craigslist:

Free:
Firewood you cut down

Date: 2010-06-09, 9:23PM EDT
Reply to: sale-yuyz4*********@craigslist.org

I have a dead tree that I would like to have cut down. I'm willing to give the wood to somebody if they cut it down SAFELY. All I'm looking for is to get the tree topped but if you want the whole tree that's fine too.

So we have a guy with a tree he no longer wants. Rather than call a tree service and pay $250 to have his tree lopped off, he offers the tree as "firewood" that simple needs to be... uh... cut into smaller sections. But Yuyz4 is a flexible guy, he is only concerned about the dead and dangerous portions of said tree falling on his house. If you want to, he won't mind if you bring your bucket truck, or your professional tree climber friends and just "top" his tree nicely; just so long as no branches fall ON HIS HOUSE.

I salute you Yuyz4, you have taken human creativity to a new level.