“While Stanley Quenchers are all the rage, we strongly advise against turning to crime to fulfill your hydration habits,” police said.

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.

  • Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org
    5·
    10 months ago

    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.

  • hrimfaxi_work@midwest.socialEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    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?

    • PlasmaDistortion@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      I get a serious “Michael Bolton” vibe from this comment, but I completely agree. TikTok ruins everything.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
      0·
      10 months ago

      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.

  • Gork@lemm.ee
    0·
    10 months ago

    I thought they were referring to the Stanley Cup of racing and was very confused.

    • seathru@lemm.ee
      1·
      10 months ago

      You mean hockey? I also clicked the article wondering how many Stanley cup trophies you could get for $2500.