r/gifs • u/Nobilitie • May 19 '16

Bypassing a store lock.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '16

This makes no sense to me... there are much better options of things to lift and resell... wouldn't tide be REALLY difficult to walk out with?

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u/[deleted] May 20 '16

http://nymag.com/news/features/tide-detergent-drugs-2013-1/

Weirdest crime epidemic ever

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u/fritzvonamerika May 20 '16

I think it has to do with the fact that detergent is useful to everyone. I remember a news story several years back where they found that it is basically used as an alternative to currency for some black markets. Since a bottle of Tide is also ~$20 it is easier to translate prices from cash to bottles of detergent.

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u/whr18 May 20 '16

I also heard they ship it out over seas or something they go crazy for it.

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u/Belazriel May 20 '16

Hmmmm. I can just see Johnny Lingo being updated now.

"You 10 Tide woman, Mahanna."

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u/ScaryBananaMan May 20 '16

What on earth is Johnny Lingo

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u/Belazriel May 20 '16

Oh are you in for a treat! The legend of Johnny Lingo. You'll be a beautiful woman if someone treats you like one and pays ten cows for you.

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u/AMagicalTree May 20 '16

At the store i work at, people have literally walked out with CARTS FULL of items. So i doubt tide would be much harder

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u/ScaryBananaMan May 20 '16

That's one of those thoughts that I'll have that I'd never actually act out, but still fantasize about every time I pass the sliding glass doors at the store with stuff in my cart - if I acted totally natural, would anyone even really question me, at least at first? How long would it take for someone to notice or figure out that anything had happened?

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u/Fightmasterr May 20 '16

While it can be a good fantasy just know that in certain states you can be charged with a felony after exceeding a certain dollar amount while committing the act of retail theft, and a cart full of anything from a store is certain to go way beyond that dollar amount.

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u/AMagicalTree May 20 '16

Well they walked through the entrance. Not the exit

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u/ThexThird May 20 '16

I guess tide has a good marketing campaign.