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.
Then I thought she was arrested because of the volume of cups she owned and no other reason.
"Idk what's going on here, but you're clearly out of control"
Basically. Those people should probably be removed from society
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:
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.
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.
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.
People who don't know about the new cups by a company named Stanley: "Dang. She must really like hockey!"
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.
I had no idea and was very confused because the picture seemed completely unrelated, and I thought there was only one Stanley Cup...
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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".
Best thing about this craze and scalping trend is that there are thousands of insulated mug brands and many are just as good or better so you can just buy something else if you want.
Unlike the GPU or PS5 scalping crazes.
I love the photo of the stuff on the hood like it's some big drug bust
I wanna see the mug shot... I'll see myself out 🤣
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?
The worst thing is that a lot of people aren't even drinking out of them! They're just collecting expensive ass mugs to put on display. As a leftist hydro homie, that's so offensive to me. Buy one cup and put some damn water in it. Hydrate yourself and stop participating in OTT consumerism that just results in more shit in a landfill down the line, ffs.
I can understand having 2 or 3 to make sure you're drinking out of something clean without having to disassemble the whole thing every day, but a friend from work showed me how some people have like 20 of these things. Defeats the purpose of a reusable cup when you have a couple dozen.
Like you said, though. These aren't being used for their initial purpose. They're decor for lots of folks.
...which honestly wouldn't upset me so much if this automotive o-ring I'm using on my lid right now didn't leak and/or they'd keep their hands off the other less twee Stanley stuff. I like my mug.
Crime aside, if I ever spend $45 on a water bottle, you all have permission to kill me.
Its a pretty good thing to spend money on if you use it on a daily basis. I work in a kitchen and need an insulated water bottle or I will literally die. Instead of using plastic I use a reusable bottle. I bought it a year ago and I have not looked back. Yeah, its more expensive than it needs to be and is a fad, but it's certainly not the most irresponsible thing you can spend $50 on. edit: removed superfluous an
I mean... It's a lot of metal... And it's strong enough to survive the job site for a decade.
As someone who frequents construction sites for my job, and also as someone who has owned a Stanley travel mug and water bottle before whatever the fuck this fad is ( over 10 years... ), they are nigh indestructible, and they keep temperature for longer than either my wife's Hydro flask or my yeti. So far in that sams period only my, Yeti coffee mug has survived as long. My wife has replaced her hyroflasj twice.
Just anecdotal, but I tend to be hard on things, and it's stayed with me this long... It's like $4/year for a coffee mug.
Sure, but there are re-usable metal insulated bottles that are a lot less than $45 and will also last for years. This is $45 because it's trendy.
What makes these better than hydro flask or yeti? Or their ripoffs?
The guy who ran Crocs shoes marketing years ago is the same guy behind this marketing.
Cache. It’s the “in” thing right now. Single-handedly improved Stanley’s profit margin
Stanley is OG though, I got one handed down from my gramps back in the day that still gets use. They just recently started wrapping them in colors other than black or army green lol
Yeah, they have always been bomb proof in terms of quality. Someone got the idea to slap some pastel or bright colours on them and white chicks went wild for it.
I don't get it. I mean I get that it's a fad, but why? Same with the fucking mullets; christ. Mullets were fucking terrible the first time around.
I'm getting older and that Abe Simpson quote about used to being with it is getting frighteningly accurate.
I was so confused. I thought it was the hockey NHL Stanley Cup. Then it's worth more than that. Then how are they multiple? Then are they like miniature novelty ones? Then how do you get so many to be worth that much?
Hol-leee shit, $2500 worth of consumer goods trash. Put this woman in jail! If the government wasn't so tied up on witch hunts, like Trump staging an insurrection, we would have to resources to weed out this trash once and for all.
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.
California law. proposition 65
Basically, they have a list of things “known to the state of California to cause cancer”. If a material on that list is used in a product, that product needs to have a “proposition 65” warning label in order to be sold in CA.
Which, since everything is a polluted mess, basically everything is on that list.
Not every single day, but quite often, I'm reminded of how much I hate the general public and continue to be amazed at the new and exciting ways it's shown off.
Mindless consumerism.
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.
... accused of grand theft.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
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.
So she had like 0.0003% of the Stanley Cup?! A 1/3 of a percent of the Stanley Cup by weight would be something like 1.8 OZ, so maybe enough to peel off one team's roster?
(And yeah now I know, it's a bunch of mugs, not that Stanley Cup.)
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