03-14-2012, 09:59 AM
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Location: Calgary
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I blame Omar
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03-14-2012, 02:08 PM
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Some kinda newsbreaker!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Learning Phaneufs skating style
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Anyone want to start up a counterfeiting operation with me? Collect empty tide containers fill them up with watered down no name brand detergent and sell them for a tidy profit.
LOL imagine junkies waiting for dealers to do a load of laundry to see if they are trading them the pure stuff or not.
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03-14-2012, 02:10 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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This crime only made economical sense when Tide switched to concentrated products.
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03-14-2012, 02:11 PM
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Norm!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by sureLoss
Anyone want to start up a counterfeiting operation with me? Collect empty tide containers fill them up with watered down no name brand detergent and sell them for a tidy profit.
LOL imagine junkies waiting for dealers to do a load of laundry to see if they are trading them the pure stuff or not.
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I can just seem some junky dipping his finger in the bottle then rubbing the detergent around his gums before nodding his approval at getting the pure stuff.
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03-14-2012, 02:28 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Close enough to make a beer run during a TV timeout
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^^ Wasn't that a scene from "Alien Nation?"
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03-14-2012, 02:35 PM
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Norm!
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With the milk? Maybe I don't think I watched much of that series.
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03-14-2012, 02:48 PM
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Pants Tent
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This knowledge should turn the tide in the war on drugs!  (...crickets chirping)
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03-14-2012, 03:24 PM
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#28
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Somewhere down the crazy river.
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I think this whole thing is being concocted by the DEA to curb the theft of items of actual value and potentially the drug trade itself.
If you follow this a bit, what happens if you go to a drug dealer with a bottle of Tide? Nothing, he tells you to f-off, if you're lucky. So, now you're stuck with a bottle of Tide, you're getting clean (pun intended) because you couldn't high, and drug dealers aren't making any money so they go into another profession.
Everybody wins...
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03-14-2012, 03:58 PM
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Playboy Mansion Poolboy
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Close enough to make a beer run during a TV timeout
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
With the milk? Maybe I don't think I watched much of that series.
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There was a scene with the Alien drug, and the alien trying it started tripping. A human tried it and said "bleh- tastes like detergent."
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03-14-2012, 04:05 PM
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Norm!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ken0042
There was a scene with the Alien drug, and the alien trying it started tripping. A human tried it and said "bleh- tastes like detergent."
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Ah I just googled it and the Aliens got drunk on sour milk
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03-14-2012, 04:11 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Vancouver
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
What the hell? Tide is one of the most difficult things to shoplift.
Huge nuclear-neon orange jug the size of a watermelon and weighing like a bowling bowl? YEAH LET'S STEAL THAT!
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They should Mach3 razors instead. Those things are practically worth their weight in gold.
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03-14-2012, 05:35 PM
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Hookers and... Tide?
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03-14-2012, 06:45 PM
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#34
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Djibouti
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I choose to believe the emergence of Tide as currency in the drug trade is the result of a bet between to evil geniuses in a mountain lair somewhere.
 
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03-14-2012, 09:21 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Cowperson
The news report is a bit confusing . . . . . it seems the bottom line is people are not drinking Tide to get high.
Drug Users are stealing Tide and using it as a medium of exchange to get drugs.
Drug Dealers are accepting Tide as currency in exchange for drugs because they have a means, apparently, of disposing of it for cash at a consistent and reliable level.
The beautiful barbarity and purity of a barter culture.
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I don't get it.
Who's buying the Tide....and why?
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03-14-2012, 09:25 PM
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Wucka Wocka Wacka
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: East of the Rockies, West of the Rest
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Wait until the people of Iceland hear about this...
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03-14-2012, 09:52 PM
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Some kinda newsbreaker!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Learning Phaneufs skating style
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Buzzard
I don't get it.
Who's buying the Tide....and why?
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Apparently smaller stores and private citizens. They buy it because it is a lot cheaper than buying it from walmart or other large chain stores.
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03-14-2012, 10:03 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2011
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But the weight to value ratio doesn't seem to make sense for stealing. The logistics seem like a nightmare. Are homeless crackheads expected to lug around 5 bottles of Tide to get a hit? They'll probably have a heart attack and die. What sense does it make for a drug dealer to kill his customers?
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03-14-2012, 10:05 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Wormius
But the weight to value ratio doesn't seem to make sense for stealing. The logistics seem like a nightmare. Are homeless crackheads expected to lug around 5 bottles of Tide to get a hit? They'll probably have a heart attack and die. What sense does it make for a drug dealer to kill his customers?
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Think of it like giving his customers another way to pay. It's not like drug dealers give you the option of Interact or Credit card, so they had to think outside the box (of detergent that is).
"Dude, if you want a hit of acid, it is 50 bucks, or 4 chickens, 6 bottles of Tide, 12 Tide-to-Go pens, 22 boxes of Ritz Crackers or 16 jars of peanut butter. If you want to convert Tide-to-Go pens into bottles of Tide, the exchange rate is 3;1. Don't give me that look, this isn't a fracking charity I am running here"
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Last edited by Rathji; 03-14-2012 at 10:08 PM.
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03-14-2012, 10:11 PM
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Some kinda newsbreaker!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Learning Phaneufs skating style
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Well the pros for junkies are:
Stores aren't guarding it properly yet. They put mass quantities out on the shelf and no magnetic tags to set off door sensors at the exits.
No serial numbers unlike Electronics which can be used to tell if an item has been stolen or track the origin.
So put that with the fact that there is a high demand for the stuff and it makes it the perfect thing for a desperate Junkie to steal.
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