Customers ransacked Portland furniture warehouse after a free sign was erected. Then the owner found out [Video]

Portland residents thought they’d stumbled onto the deal of a lifetime on Sunday – an entire warehouse of items, all free for the taking.

At least that’s what a painted piece of plywood outside the warehouse’s entrance, and a note asking volunteers to hand out items to anyone who wanted or needed them, led them to believe.

In reality, the owner of the warehouse in the city’s northwest had no idea that people were picking over the property, KGW8 reports.

Residents living near the warehouse watched as a crowd empty out the building, prompting one to report a mass burglary at the location. When Portland Police arrived on scene, they found people loading trucks and trailers full of items and walking away with mattresses.