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For everyone eager for the rest of the dumpster sex story, it’s hit a bit of a dead-end. The Craigslist post has been deleted and, oddly, some shmuck in the comments section is claiming the whole thing was a goof. Hilarious stuff.

Anyway, we’ll let the tale of junkie love rest at that. It’s been a fun ride, and I think we all learned a lesson: Always get tested after you bang anonymous addicts behind dumpsters.

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Original post:

“We had sex behind a dumpster after NA.”

When a story begins like that, there’s almost never a happy ending on the other side. But such is the story of a recent missed connection found among Cleveland’s Craigslist pages. (Author note: “NA” = Narcotics Anonymous)

Oh, yeah, and it ends like this: “You may want to get yourself tested.”

But in between the jarring intro and outro to this composition lies the story of a lost soul. He (presumably a man, judging by the post title) writes that he hasn’t returned to NA since the dumpster incident. In a few words, he paints a picture of desperate needs and of a cry for help. Running among the self-loathing in the post is, at the very least, an altruistic attempt to help the woman he encountered.

“I went for an HIV test yesterday and it came back positive,” the author writes. “Who fucking cares about me but I have no way of getting a hold of you.”

This article appears in Sep 18-24, 2013.

Eric Sandy is an award-winning Cleveland-based journalist. For a while, he was the managing editor of Scene. He now contributes jam band features every now and then.

8 replies on “Disturbing Missed Connection Hits Cleveland Craigslist: UPDATE”

  1. this was joke post…. i posted it, wow the scene magazine is pretty naive. you do know that 90% of cragslist personals are fake right?

  2. maybe they wouldn’t all be fake if people like you found a better wheelbarrow to occupy all your horseshit.

  3. And how do we know that you yourself aren’t fake Daisy Deadlace? Sounds like a zombie name all rolled up in dead daisies. If this was a fake post… you really do suck dirt. If it’s real, you are stopping the potential progress of a serious notification. Either way… dislike.

  5. An article that should have taken me all but 20~ seconds to read took about 1.5 mins. Please proofread for integrity and literary justice.

  6. Fake, real, whatever. Some “Craigslist Missed Connections” are just too good for a laugh as far as I’m concerned, lol.

  8. I remember this post and i couldnt take seriously then or now, but the fact that he wants he to get a check up and they met at NA speaks volumes. Dumpster love Dumpster love

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