The craze for Stanley stainless steel drinking cups reached new levels last week when a woman was arrested and accused of stealing 65 of them, worth almost $2,500, from a store in California.
Police in Roseville, in Placer County, northeast of Sacramento, said Sunday that they were called Wednesday to a report of a theft from a store on Stanford Ranch Road in the city.
“Staff saw a woman take a shopping cart full of Stanley water bottles without paying for them. The suspect refused to stop for staff and stuffed her car with the stolen merchandise,” police said in a statement on Facebook.
And the Leafs can’t even get one.
Single handedly defeated by Florida woman
Factory cost is a few dollars
A few weeks ago they were going for $2,500 each on eBay
You can get high quality stainless steel thermos on AliExpress for $10-$20 (bought a few myself, can’t believe how good they’re), so I guess you’re right.
I went through a rollercoaster with this post.
At first I thought someone stole multiple NHL Stanley cups of which there is one.
Then I thought she was arrested because of the volume of cups she owned and no other reason.
I thought this was an onion article. I’ll put myself to bed now.
At first I thought someone stole multiple NHL Stanley cups of which there is one.
There’s actually two.
Multiple sources say there are 3 actually. I had no idea.
At this rate I’m just going to say four and hope I’m the winner
I’m driving to the scene to add a fifth
I’d go so far as to suggest the possibility of a sixth
Yeah there’s like 3 known to exist:
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The presentation cup that they actually give to the hockey team when they win the finals. That’s the one they cart around and drop into backyard pools and forget in taxis. I had a chance to see this cup one time ‘cause the guy who travels around with it showed up to a bar I used to frequent and his server was a friend of mine, and they got to talking and my buddy recognized him. He just flat out asked buddy, “you want to see it?” And they went out to the parking lot and there it was in the trunk of a rental car. I say that had a chance to see it in this context ‘cause I was at the bar that night but had already left and the moment just came and went and that was that.
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The cup that’s on display at the hall of fame in Toronto. You can just walk up to that one and stand around it. It’s nailed down to its podium but you can just, like, go right up to it and touch it. Maybe there’s a sign there that says not to touch it, I don’t know. I’ve been to see this cup.
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The original cup, which is in a vault at the hall of fame. I don’t think you can see that one without some kind of ceremony or special occasion or something? Maybe some paperwork or something? I don’t think that one is on display out in the open and it doesn’t have any of the bands on it, but you can see pictures of it if you search around.
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I honestly don’t get these fads. Last one that left me scratching my head like this was the yeti cooler craze, and before that was the instapot craze. Mindless hyper consumerism, that will be used just as much as your last mug, cooler, pot all of which are likely in a landfill now.
The only one I get is the Instapot. I actually use that a lot, and it makes incredible food in a very short time.
My grandma used pressure cookers in the 50s, they weren’t very safe then. But even before the instapot, pressure cookers had all sorts of safety features that make them quite usable. I just don’t get the hype of one instance of commodity items.
It’s so ridiculous to see it getting pushed in real-time too. A few days ago every news outlet was simultaneously posting stories about these stupid cups or people waiting in line to buy these cups out of the blue just trying to drive the latest craze. There’s no way that’s organic.
People who don’t know about the new cups by a company named Stanley: “Dang. She must really like hockey!”
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Their website is stanley1913.com, lmao.
But yes, my first thought was “how the fuck did she get one of those?” and then “only $2500?” and then “OHHHH”.
I genuinely thought it was something to do with the NHL, like maybe mini commemorative replica cups or something. That at least would be interesting. This is just some weirdo stealing over priced thermos bottles.
This Stanley cup thing is pissing me off because I have one of those green trigger coffee mugs that needs a new lid. You can’t get replacement parts for practically any Stanley cup.
I could get a different coffee cup, but why should I change when it’s these TikTok water cup weirdos that suck?
I get a serious “Michael Bolton” vibe from this comment, but I completely agree. TikTok ruins everything.
Mindless consumerism.
That sounds like a mental health thing, I hope shes getting help.
Nah, I think “Hey I think I see a way to make a bunch of money” happened. “Stanley cups have suddenly become very popular and thus scarce, so I’ll go get a bunch of them and sell them for more than their retail price. oh, their retail price is actually quite high. I know, I’ll just shoplift them! Profit margins increase!”
The psychology I find fascinating is the trend itself. A brand of quality insulated metal water cups that has apparently existed this whole time has suddenly become a popular fashion item among the instagramettes. We’ve apparently reached the shoplifting stage of the craze. I wonder how many fistfights there will be over $45 water bottles.
From the point of view of a male 30-something hermit, the journey has gone like this so far: I use Firefox, and if you don’t set a homepage it has this start screen with buttons for sites you frequent as well as a bunch of news articles served by whatever the hell Pocket is. One of them had an image of a bright pink handled drinking cup with a headline to the effect of “Confessions of a cup girl.” I did not read this article. A short time later, someone posts to Lemmy the picture of Homer Simpson in the lesbian bar, all the women have those same pink cups, he’s got the hockey trophy. Now here we are, a 23-year old woman has been arrested for stealing a shopping cart full of them. It’s absolutely fucking hilarious.
My sister in law gave me one of these things for xmas. I like it but $45 seems steep. I had no clue there was a trend!
With the right branding, anything can be a trend!
Completely off topic but…
Does the Stanley cup have a sticker saying the product might cause cancer in the state of California?
Also why does every product I see potential cause cancer in the state of California only?
That is all. I’m too lazy to Google the question but thought I would annoy someone about it here.
Thank you.
California just has laws in place that requires items that have potential carcinogens to be labeled. That’s it.
Well, that and their bar for what qualifies is really low. If a single study shows that a chemical agent may cause cancer in animals, it will be listed. It doesn’t actually have to be confirmed. Also, in many cases, manufacturers will simply put the label on their products by default to avoid being sued in California because it would cost them more to verify whether it contains one of the many listed chemicals or not. As such, the labels have largely become noise at this point.
The bubble that regulates the weather at Disneyland has weird interactions with certain items, so California has to warn people.x
I’m so thankful I invested in my humble Stanley thermos years before this Stanley craze took off. The price of these things has gotten out of hand.
On the one hand she’s got a great entrepreneurial spirit but on the other hand, stealing from a store is never ok to do.
