Ignore the ad, the horse is not for eating

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The block’s getting hot in Akron, Ohio, right now, at least for Kristen DeGroat and the horse she was trying to sell. The Saginaw News goofed up her classified ad, which ran under the header “Good Things to Eat” instead of the one for horses and stables. Responses, which were numerous, ranged from people asking her how she sleeps at night to people warning her about PETA to people—no joke—making offers on horse meat.

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