I’m still laughing at the absurdity of what happened when I offered to give away my son’s old Peg Perego stroller for free on the Marin Freecycle site. All I wanted to do was to be good to the environment by not throwing the thing away but the exchange ended up being as dramatic as a drug bust — and a lesson in the misunderstandings that can arise with Internet communities when you trade random information online with strangers.
The crime of the century starts here ……

Freecycle is an environmentally conscious and fabulous free exchange of used goods where people can offer stuff that they don’t need any more and where people go to get things instead of buying new. A woman responded to my post that she’d like my son’s used stroller and I sent her directions to my apartment. I told her that I might not be home so I’d leave the blue stroller out along the wall of our building in front of our apartment.

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