Ad for free snowblower turns out to be fake
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A Craigslist ad for a free snowblower in St. Cloud sounded too good to be true - and it was.
The ad said anyone could come by and pick up the snowblower, for free, from the driveway of a home. It turns out the ad was fake, but the snowblower was taken, anyway.
Police were called Wednesday after the resident said he left his broken snowblower on his driveway while he arranged to get it fixed. However, someone put the snowblower on Craigslist.
On Thursday, the man who grabbed the snowblower with a buddy returned it. Ryan Peckskamp tells the Star Tribune that once he read about the bogus ad, he knew what he had to do.
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KNSI-AM reports detectives are looking into who posted the fake ad.
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Information from: KNSI-AM
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