GRIME WAVE: It’s a dirty job: Police nationwide take on soaring Tide detergent theft

The Daily ^ | March 12, 2012 | M.L. Nestel

[I see my hands]

Flo was fond of Ebenezer,

"Eb," for short, she called her beau.
Talk of tides, of love, great Caesar!
You should see them - Eb and Flo.

[GSWarrior]

I keep waiting for someone break into my home and do my laundry.

[Hunton Peck]

If stock in this stuffcrashed, there's definitely a conspiracy.

[doorgunner69]

Hmmm, looks like Spicoli.....

[Hunton Peck]

“How fast was the getaway car?”

In light of your post and PA Engineer’s #17, there is definitely a suspicious NASCAR connection being unearthed here. This is much bigger than I’d even imagined...

[null and void]

Do you know why Eskimos wash their clothes in tide?

[Sea Parrot]

LOL, when lived in Alaska many years ago, Tide was a favorite tool of creek robbers for illegal harvesting of salmon. When the tens of thousands of salmon would choke a creek after entering to make a run up it, the poachers would set their nets at the creek mouth. Then dump in boxes of Tide upstream, it would irritate their gills and drive the salmon back downstream right into their gill nets.

Gill net boats painted dark gray and black were known as creek robbers. They were hard to see at dusk and dawn when the poaching was mostly done.

[I cannot think of a name]

“So what specific chemical in Tide is being reduced to make Meth or some other designer drug the others do not posses??”

Bingo

The people that are stealing and buying this stuff are not big on cleanliness.

[Altariel]

I suppose this could be considered a new turn of the tide.

:-)

[Hunton Peck]

No, Johnny! Why do eskimos wash their clothes in tide?

[null and void]

It’s too cold out tide...

[rolling_stone]

Sure, they’re trying to downplay it. But I’ll bet it’s part of some huge laundering operation.

[mtg]

So what specific chemical in Tide is being reduced to make Meth or some other designer drug the others do not posses??

That was my first thought. Watch the goofy libertarians go all paranoid and crazy now, claiming Conservatives will try to get Tide outlawed.

[Hunton Peck]

HIYOoooo!!!

[6SJ7]

Tide is a gateway-detergent. Next thing you know, you’re freebasing Woolite.

[x]

Moving from Cheer to Joy, from Joy to All,
I take a box
And add it to my wild rice, my Cornish game hens ...

[AnAmericanAbroad]

Tide for drugs? Seriously?

Now don’t get me wrong.....if I were a drug-dealer, and being a fastidious fellow, of course I’d like to my keep my clothes clean.

But if some addict comes to me and says, “Trade ya 5 gallons of Tide for 5 grams of coke (or whatever) “, I’d have to turn down that offer. And smack said addict upside the head.

Money talks.

Tide?

Or Benjamins?

Think I’ll take the cold hard cash. And no credit, either!

[Norm Lenhart]

Seems crazy to me that people would try stealing something so bulky for so little profit. There must be something in it that makes it worth more than 10 street bucks each to someone.

Something just seems wrong about stealing a bulky item like it to simply resell. Why not steal booze? More profit in it.

[Hammerhead]

Trading crack for Tide.

Obama’s barter system economy.

Makes sense.

[Hammerhead]

So THAT’s the Prince of Tides?!

Think I’ll still skip the movie.