Colorado Home Raided After Estate Sale Wrongly Advertised

LONGMONT, CO -- A Colorado woman this month came home to a house full of strangers taking her belongings after someone advertised that the property was the site of an estate sale where everything was free. The incident, which police described as a "misunderstanding," happened when Mary Andrews said she left her Longmont home unlocked.

"They just ransacked the house so fast that it had to be because they knew this was not free," Andrews told the Daily Camera. "They knew what they were doing. They had to have."

Andrews told the news site that an estate sale was actually happening at a house down the street, but her address somehow got mixed up with word of the sale.

"They really did think this was the estate sale," Andrews told the news site. "They all argued with me, and very few people would just put anything back."

"Everything from picture frames to jewelry to lamps and utensils were taken, while her grandson had a camera and a computer with school files taken. Andrews said someone even took her toilet paper and the toilet paper holder from the bathroom," the news site reported.

The Daily Camera reported that police are not investigating the case.

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