Real Life: Still Stranger Than Fiction

Jason Kuznicki on Oct 5th 2008

I subscribe to Freecycle, a forum that lets people post ads to give away still-useful junk that they’d otherwise not be able to sell. It keeps stuff out of landfills and contributes a great deal of economic value to the community, despite it all being nominally “free.” (Example: We’ve given away paint, furniture, clothes, and building supplies, all of which went to people who needed them. We also once got a free piano, for just the costs of hauling it away. Pretty sweet.)

Today I got by far the weirdest and most disturbing Freecycle message I’ve ever received:

OFFER: Tracheostomy Kits > 2 Dozen Unopened

I have 24 unopened Tracheostomy Care kits made by Airlife. No dates on
packages. My ideas for science fair projects never came about! Likely
still sterile for use as unopened. No guarantees!

Pick up near White Marsh Park in Bowie

Tracheostomy kits? Science fair projects??? What did the Human Subjects Committee at your middle school have to say about that one?

I almost want to go get them, just to learn what the real story was.

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3 Responses to “Real Life: Still Stranger Than Fiction”

  1. # James Hanleyon 07 Oct 2008 at 6:50 am

    Dammit! It’s been two days now, and I can’t get this out of my head. Tracheotomy kits for a science fair project!? All I can think is, poor kittens. It had to be something like that, right?

  2. # Scotton 07 Oct 2008 at 9:02 am

    I want to believe it had something to do with balloons, but in my gut I know it was more likely frogs.

  3. # Positive Liberty » Occasional Notes: True, False. Fake, Real.on 09 Oct 2008 at 5:24 pm

    [...] e-mailed that guy who was giving away two dozen tracheostomy kits because his “ideas for science fair projects never came about.” Alas (or perhaps [...]

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