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

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

[JoeProBono]

[Disambiguator]

He looks like Roy Scheider.

[Hunton Peck]

I was thinking Bono:

...but probably not as full of himself.

[Hunton Peck]

"We're gonna need a bigger boat;

the Tide's coming in!"

[Venturer]

The hell with Gold, I am buying TIDE

[gopno1]

Stay tuned for a headline with the words “Killed for a Bottle of Tide” in the near future....

[BobL]

Weird stuff. Of course laundry detergent is on my Doomsday List (along with dozens of other items). I have about 5 years worth of it...does that make me a dealer?

[Hunton Peck]

“I have about 5 years worth of it...does that make me a dealer?”

Apparently, it makes you rich.

Maybe you should think about getting a large safe. A waterproof one — you don’t want your assets to get liquidated.

[bleach]

It’s probably drugs. I hear in Alabama they roll tide.

[NautiNurse]

No serial numbers on the detergent bottles makes for a clean getaway. They’ll have to come up with a new term for “black market” when Tide is the commodity.

[Nickname]

Apparently one use is people washing their hair with it to beat certain drug tests.

[FreedomPoster]

>>As Washington households struggle under the curse of the ‘no phosphate’ mandate, Spokanites can be seen in Coeur d’Alene Wal-Marts and Costco establishments bootlegging cases of effective detergents back over the state line.

There were several threads that ran in the last few years about supplementing laundry and dishwashing detergents with TSP (Tri-Sodium PHOSPHATE) purchased at the hardware/home store.

[Fresh Wind]

How can that guy in the picture be stealing the Tide? It says right there on the bottle...”FREE”!

[21twelve]

Chuckle.

[Safetgiver]

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

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Counting down the days until I have to show an ID to buy Tide.....

[EBH]

Looks like this should be in the “prepper stock” for barter...

I am allergic to the ingredients in Tide... but a few bottles of this might be handy...

[Thunder90]

I’m quite sure that’s going to happen. I read that the chemicals in Tide can be used in the manufacturing process for Methamphetamine.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Damned meth heads. It is bad enough I have to go through the drill just to get my Claritan-D. :(