“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.

  • frickineh@lemmy.world
    352·
    9 months ago

    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.

    • hrimfaxi_work@midwest.socialEnglish
      20·
      9 months ago

      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.