Personal Defense: When an Online Sale Meet-Up Goes Horribly Wrong

By Martha Houle Craigslist and Facebook deals are my guilty pleasure. I paid a whopping $20 for my most recent purchase: a wooden coffee table with plastic wheels. It was basically trash. But one person’s trash is another person’s treasure. For those of you who think this story is about furniture, I’m not talking about … Read more

Craigslist Transaction Gone Wrong Leads to Defensive Gun Use

As today’s news makes all too clear, meeting strangers via the Internet can be risky business, even if you meet them in public and in broad daylight. At the end of August in Kissimmee, Florida, a man met Alexander Diaz (above) in a Walgreens parking lot at 5:00 p.m. They had arranged the meeting on … Read more