Have you ever felt as though a hot chick or a cute guy has led you on and then ignominiously dumped you? Have you ever felt as though you’ve been toyed with by the targets of your affection? Probably it wasn’t as bad as the coordinated brush-off that’s being given by the mastermind behind a certain hoax that someone is perpetrating using craiglist.org. Basically the story is that a self-described hot chick posts a message on craigslist asking for random sex partners. Naturally she gets a bunch of responses — but, gosh by golly, she selects yours out of the five hundred in her inbox. She sends you a message saying to meet her in front of a Starbucks in Times Square. You are to bring a carnation so she recognizes you. And what then? Hot wild sex in a nearby hotel?

Here is one guy’s version of the “climax” of the story:

“I ride the subway up. Exit the station. Walk a block up Broadway and see there is convention of men holding bouquets of carnations…all colors. The men are varied too…PR, Black, White, Hipsters, Suits & Ties…all looking for that ever fleeting cheap piece of ass. I throw my flowers in the nearest trash can…and hop on the first train home.” (Incidentally, the complete version of this guy’s story is pretty funny. Go read it.)

In other words, the climax of the story is an involuntary “flash mob” made up of horny suckers carrying carnations! In a way it makes for a nice image — a bunch of guys randomly standing on a street corner with colorful flowers. You can almost imagine it being somebody’s fucked-up art project. But really it’s just fucked up, and certainly this is not the first time such a scam has been perpetrated on craigslist. Last winter there was apparently a chick (or somebody pretending to be a chick) who would entice guys to wait for her on a freezing cold street corner, then laugh at them from the window of her warm apartment. She would leave posts on craigslist mocking the guys for showing up.

These are pretty cruel tricks, obviously not to be condoned — though at the same time, you have to admit it’s pretty funny. Maybe some of these guys will get wise and perpetrate the opposite trick — rather than offer no-strings-attached sex, they can go online, tell how romantic and commitment-oriented they are, how badly they want a wife to support and a family to fill up their hours of loneliness… And then they make wedding arrangements and fail to show when there are forty brides waiting there at the altar.

(Thanks to OldSadSack for the tip-off.)

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