Craigslist ad includes wrong number for sale of cow, creating chaos for teen
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Craigslist ad includes wrong number for sale of cow, creating chaos for teen
An online ad created chaos for a teenager when the listing included his phone number for the sale of a heifer.According to news reports, 19-year-old Shannon Barbour said on Friday that he had the worst morning of his life. He didn’t know what a heifer even was, but he received a barrage of inquiries about it.The Charlottesville, Virginia, ad on craiglist.org said the cow was for sale for $50, which some people on Twitter seemed strangely low. He told BuzzFeed News that the whole thing may have been a prank set up on him.But he still had fun with some of the responses, telling at least one person it was no longer for sale because he “just had steak for breakfast.”
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. —
An online ad created chaos for a teenager when the listing included his phone number for the sale of a heifer.
According to news reports, 19-year-old Shannon Barbour said on Friday that he had the worst morning of his life. He didn’t know what a heifer even was, but he received a barrage of inquiries about it.
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The Charlottesville, Virginia, ad on craiglist.org said the cow was for sale for $50, which some people on Twitter seemed strangely low. He told BuzzFeed News that the whole thing may have been a prank set up on him.
But he still had fun with some of the responses, telling at least one person it was no longer for sale because he “just had steak for breakfast.”