I recently procured an excellent new addition to my bedroom décor.  Doubtlessly you’ll perceive the same timeless artistic quality in it that I did.

Have you got it in you?

Ah craigslist, your ability to bring bizarre novelties, inane rants and tirades, fantastically bad trade propositions, and epic transgressions against the English language out of the wood work is what so endears you in our hearts.  For the past couple of months I have been attempting to sell my Bandit 1200 via craigslist (not because I don’t love the bike, mind you, but because I really want to try a naked V-twin like the SV650 or Monster).  In my ad I clearly state the models of bike I would consider in a trade, and a ballpark price I would accept for a sale outright.  Of course that doesn’t stop people from offering wacky and irrelevant items in trades, for example a 1996 Dodge Intrepid.  This is an expected part of the craigslist experience, but once in a while you encounter an offer so zany as to impel the most battle-hardened craigslist veteran to cock an eyebrow.  Here’s one such offer.
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