Crowdsourcing--having masses of strangers carry out a task that once would have been handled by a specific entity--has come to family disputes.
According to the NYT, an item appeared on Craigslist in Tacoma, Washington, earlier this spring announcing that a house was being demolished, and so people were free to taken anything and everything. And they did, removing even windows, the kitchen sink, and the water heater from the unoccupied house.
Now a woman is charged with malicious mischief for placing the ad: she allegedly resented how the homeowner, her aunt, had treated a relative, and used the power of Internet-directed crowds to take her revenge.
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