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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: FiddyBeowulf on March 13, 2012, 10:32:27 AM
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I never heard of this. Tide detergent being used as currency.
http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/03/12/031212-news-tide-theft-1-4/ (http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/03/12/031212-news-tide-theft-1-4/)
...Theft of Tide detergent has become so rampant that authorities from New York to Oregon are keeping tabs on the soap spree, and some cities are setting up special task forces to stop it. And retailers like CVS are taking special security precautions to lock down the liquid.
One Tide taker in West St. Paul, Minn., made off with $25,000 in the product over 15 months before he was busted last year.
“That was unique that he stole so much soap,†said West St. Paul Police Chief Bud Shaver. “The name brand is [all] Tide. Amazing, huh?â€
Tide has become a form of currency on the streets. The retail price is steadily high — roughly $10 to $20 a bottle — and it’s a staple in households across socioeconomic classes....
This has got to make the war on drugs easier to fight though. See some dude walking down the street with a bottle of Tide, he is either going to buy drugs or just sold some.
Makes one wonder how they make change? Use the smaller sample sizes?
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I heard that on the radio this am. WTF?
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:lmao: They are ridiculous.
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Break yoself, foo, and hand over the Tide!
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Welcome to the obama economy.