Tide Talk

[e.s.dude]

Tide detergent is some kind of street currency now? What’s up with this?

http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/03/12/031212-news-tide-theft-1-4/

Anybody want to trade an X5 for a case of Tide? 8)

 

[Kin]

Tide is expensive .


But so colorful! And confidence inspiring! Oddly powerful marketing they have.

 

[heathyoung]

Lol WTF?

 

[bigmoose]

Yea what is that about? Should we stock pile "bricks" of dial soap too?

 

[Joseph C.]

Either the thief/thieves are insane, they have some sort of personal problem with the product or they are going for the attention-seeking novelty crime category.

 

[rojitor]

This works every time...My friend works in a forensic lab showed me how...I passed 8 hair tests Never failed. 1. Strip hair with vinegar..Leave in and let it saturate into the hair for about ten minutes. "Dont Rinse Out"....Oh yea watch
your eyes the crap burns like doo doo. 2. Should told you this first...But you will need to buy a bottle Clean & Clear skin toning and deep cleanser...It's for pimples and
acne....You will need to put that in your hair while the vinegar still there. You will feel a burning sensation. Masage into the
scalp for about 5minutes. What happens is it cleans while the vinegar has your pores open 3. Ok now as crazy as this crap sounds but you will need Tide laundry detergent.
Powder or liquid it doesn't matter. Wash your hair with it and rinse thoroughly with warm water. Please dont get the Tide in
your eyes..keep eyes close shut . Tide has the best cleaning agent of all detergents. 4. Now just use your favorite aloe (moisturizing shampoo).....Any kind you want to use. 5. Do that four step process the day of your deadline I dont believe how some of you guys worry like that.....I'm heavy user of all drugs for 15 years....Be surprise what alittle
knowledge will do...Have a nice day ya'll

According to this guide tide is the best to fool drug tests, if not used to cook meths that's probably the reason.

 

[neptronix]

I suppose it is one of the highest dollar items you can run off with..
Seems like a pain in the ass to run off with something that big though, rather than smaller items.

Anyway, who the hell buys stolen laundry detergent to save a few bucks? is this country really getting that poor?

 

[dogman dan]

Apparently yes. Minimum wage job = second job is some kind of crime for many. Hard enough to get the first crap job.

Shoplifting carries a much smaller bounce than most other crimes. Of course, a tweaker will steal anything as well. What gets stolen a lot would be what's easy to sell. Who has CD's to get stolen anymore? so that's out. Bikes still hock nice, and gold will always be good to steal but everybody needs soap. Sell it to mom, go get your rock.

I bet shoplifiting of everything is way up these last few years. Like the 80's a recovery takes a decade to trickle down to the lower class, blue collar folks. Carpenters and electricians may get work again, but laborers will have to steal some tide.

 

[Philistine]

I would presume it is guerilla marketing by Tide, but if it is true, I am going to get a bulk amount of Chinese counterfeit Tide made up.

People can either go to the shops and buy a big bottle of Tide, or they can come to my house for little baggies of "Tide". I will rarely answer my mobile when called, and often I will agree to meet people at my house and then not be there. Other times they will show up, and my scraggy girlfriend who is 15 years younger than me, but looks 15 years older than me, will yell through the crack in the door "If that's Shane f&ck OFF!", and when the customer explains that they aren't Shane, but in fact were here to see Philistine, she will scream back "He isn't here, come back fuckin' later". Finally, after three or four failed attempts to meet me at my house, I will finally be there. And then the customer will be forced to come into my house and sit on a couch that is only held together by the stubborn understains, and smells like a sewer rats anus. And I will make them sit there for an hour or so listening to different music, acting like they like me and are my friend and are happy to be there - my scraggy girlfriend will be in the corner smoking Oxy Action Concentrate out of a glass pipe and scratching at mysterious holes in her skin. At one point, a 3 year old with a mullet and an earing (which is my girlfriends kid, not mine, despite the fact that she has been my girlfriend longer than the kid has been alive) will wonder past them in a poo filled nappy. I won't acknoledge the kids existence. Finally after two hours, I will act like time has gotten away from us, and I have only just remembered what the customer has come here for. Then, and only then, I will produce a greyish substance that looks nothing like Tide, and tell the person that this is the really pure Tide, and that is what Pure Tide looks like, and that the difference is that the stuff in the shops has been stepped on a lot and bleached to look the way it does. I will then let them buy a gram of "Tide" for $300.

What do you think? The government would clearly prefer this option me thinks.....

 

[Ypedal]

wondering if they extract precursors for production of other things from it.. googletime.

edit...

http://tlc.discovery.com/videos/my-strange-addiction-eating-laundry-detergent.html



Hilarious
http://heterodoxy.cc/meowdocs/pseudo/pseudosynth.pdf

 

[Philistine]

Those were both hilarious Ypedal, I don't know which was more funny.

With the second one, the company that makes Sudafed actually gave evidence to a Senate Committee in the US, admitting that the Sudafed which contains no Psuedoephedrine (here in Aus it is called Sudafed PE), does not actually do anything at all, and it is a totaly placebo, but they said that they were effectively forced to release it after the government had made products with psuedo in them so hard to actually sell. Basically in their evidence (and I have read the transcript), they said that the way that decongestants work mean that without pseudo any product will at best be of mild effectiveness, and generally they will be placebos. So basically we have to put up with substandard at best, and completely ineffective generally, decongestants, because of the governments hatred of meth.

How good would it be if the SWAT team came storming into your shed lab with guns blazing, and your standing there with a red dripping nose, and a hot cup of soup, and trying to explain to them you were just trying to cook up a decongestant that actually worked....

 

[dogman dan]

When I first heard of this, half listening to tv news, I heard the drug connection and immediately thought of Heinzenberg from Breaking Bad. Then I saw the full story this morning and understood tide was as good as cash at the crack house.

Makes me remeber high school, walking around with enough lunch tickets for several years in my pocket. At half the price to buy one, they worked like cash to buy or sell dope. Ate well and enjoyed "high" school.

 

[MikeFairbanks]

I was never a hardened criminal, but we used to pull funny "pranks," such as ordering food to be delivered at address A (just some house on a street, preferably one with a rear entrance, a staircase, or other long journey from car to door). Then, five minutes later order food for address B (pick a house on the same street a few doors down). The order you place for house B is the one you want, so make it a good one.

While driver is around the back (or up the stairs, etc.) delivering to house A, you help yourself to the order sitting in the truck intended for house B.

Now, back in the day when I was a young scrapper, this kind of stunt, even if it went wrong, didn't rise to the attention of the cops. They wouldn't want to be bothered, so it was pretty much some guy threatening you and you'd make good if caught. In the U.S. post-9-11 times, they call swat and hang you from the nearest tree, so I wouldn't suggest that stunt. In other words, don't try this at home. Leave it to the trained professionals of the 1980s.

About twenty years later I gave the owner of the pizza shop double the money (out of guilt), but it was a fun stunt. My dad taught it to me, never thinking that I'd actually try it.

ABOUT TIDE:

If there's a chap out there clever enough to figure out the above formula, isn't he also clever enough to earn a great living doing something legit?

 

[MikeFairbanks]

I would presume it is guerilla marketing by Tide, but if it is true, I am going to get a bulk amount of Chinese counterfeit Tide made up.

People can either go to the shops and buy a big bottle of Tide, or they can come to my house for little baggies of "Tide". I will rarely answer my mobile when called, and often I will agree to meet people at my house and then not be there. Other times they will show up, and my scraggy girlfriend who is 15 years younger than me, but looks 15 years older than me, will yell through the crack in the door "If that's Shane f&ck OFF!", and when the customer explains that they aren't Shane, but in fact were here to see Philistine, she will scream back "He isn't here, come back fuckin' later". Finally, after three or four failed attempts to meet me at my house, I will finally be there. And then the customer will be forced to come into my house and sit on a couch that is only held together by the stubborn understains, and smells like a sewer rats anus. And I will make them sit there for an hour or so listening to different music, acting like they like me and are my friend and are happy to be there - my scraggy girlfriend will be in the corner smoking Oxy Action Concentrate out of a glass pipe and scratching at mysterious holes in her skin. At one point, a 3 year old with a mullet and an earing (which is my girlfriends kid, not mine, despite the fact that she has been my girlfriend longer than the kid has been alive) will wonder past them in a poo filled nappy. I won't acknoledge the kids existence. Finally after two hours, I will act like time has gotten away from us, and I have only just remembered what the customer has come here for. Then, and only then, I will produce a greyish substance that looks nothing like Tide, and tell the person that this is the really pure Tide, and that is what Pure Tide looks like, and that the difference is that the stuff in the shops has been stepped on a lot and bleached to look the way it does. I will then let them buy a gram of "Tide" for $300.

That, my friend, is poetry.

I wish it were untrue, but sadly you hit the nail on the head.

 

[liveforphysics]

I would presume it is guerilla marketing by Tide, but if it is true, I am going to get a bulk amount of Chinese counterfeit Tide made up.

People can either go to the shops and buy a big bottle of Tide, or they can come to my house for little baggies of "Tide". I will rarely answer my mobile when called, and often I will agree to meet people at my house and then not be there. Other times they will show up, and my scraggy girlfriend who is 15 years younger than me, but looks 15 years older than me, will yell through the crack in the door "If that's Shane f&ck OFF!", and when the customer explains that they aren't Shane, but in fact were here to see Philistine, she will scream back "He isn't here, come back fuckin' later". Finally, after three or four failed attempts to meet me at my house, I will finally be there. And then the customer will be forced to come into my house and sit on a couch that is only held together by the stubborn understains, and smells like a sewer rats anus. And I will make them sit there for an hour or so listening to different music, acting like they like me and are my friend and are happy to be there - my scraggy girlfriend will be in the corner smoking Oxy Action Concentrate out of a glass pipe and scratching at mysterious holes in her skin. At one point, a 3 year old with a mullet and an earing (which is my girlfriends kid, not mine, despite the fact that she has been my girlfriend longer than the kid has been alive) will wonder past them in a poo filled nappy. I won't acknoledge the kids existence. Finally after two hours, I will act like time has gotten away from us, and I have only just remembered what the customer has come here for. Then, and only then, I will produce a greyish substance that looks nothing like Tide, and tell the person that this is the really pure Tide, and that is what Pure Tide looks like, and that the difference is that the stuff in the shops has been stepped on a lot and bleached to look the way it does. I will then let them buy a gram of "Tide" for $300.

What do you think? The government would clearly prefer this option me thinks.....

This is really good stuff Phil. I could smell the couch and the kids diaper through the screen reading it.

 

[spinningmagnets]

they said that the way that decongestants work mean that without pseudo, any product will at best be of mild effectiveness, and generally they will be placebos

Don't sell placebos short...I was once a part of a government-funded double-blind study to develop better placebos. Nobody was supposed to know who was getting what, but...I could tell I was getting the stronger version.

There are actually only two rules to guarantee success in life...1) Never tell everything you know.

 

[Philistine]

That, my friend, is poetry.

I wish it were untrue, but sadly you hit the nail on the head.
MikeFairbanks10 kW
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This is really good stuff Phil. I could smell the couch and the kids diaper through the screen reading it.

Thanks guys, if I touch even just one person with my scatalogical filth, it has been worth the effort.

Don't sell placebos short...I was once a part of a government-funded double-blind study to develop better placebos. Nobody was supposed to know who was getting what, but...I could tell I was getting the stronger version.

Reminds me of the Simpson secne:

Dr HIBBERT (Speaking to a frantic diseased crowd): "There are no drugs for this condition, anything I gave you now would purely be a placebo"
CROWD (Screaming frantically): WHERE DO WE GET THESE PLACEBOS!!!!

 

[Nehmo]

Anybody want to trade an X5 for a case of Tide? 8)

Sure, but you pay shipping.

Any retail product with a comparatively high value is a frequently-stolen item, but I seriously doubt Tide theft has reached "Crime Wave" status. And judging by the stealing technique described, crashing the door in view of the cameras, these thieves don't represent the sophisticated end of their trade.

This part, "One... made off with $25,000 in the product over 15 months" raises a question. That's about 3 120-ounce bottles per day every day for the period. Couldn't the store just stop the guy on entrance?

The article is nothing more than whipping up a few minor stories into something sensational.

 

[dogman dan]

Cover up for where the tide really went? Pay your store managers 50 cents more than minimum wage, and see what happens.

It's the damn detergent mafia.

 

[liveforphysics]

The article is nothing more than whipping up a few minor stories into something sensational.

I believe they call this concept, "News". I don't personally partake in it for that very reason.



It's so funny how about 99% of all harms regarding drugs just vanish if you simply remove all the laws regarding drugs. The harms exist because they made "laws" creating them.