You may not have heard of gallon smashing but if you take a look at the Youtube video attached to this post, you'll know pretty much all there is to know.
Gallon-smashing is a new viral video trend that is sweeping the internet, where people go into supermarkets and film themselves pretending to fall while smashing one or two gallons of milk.
At 11:01 a.m. Monday, Salem police responded to a "gallon smashing incident" at the Shaw's Supermarket on Traders Way.
A loss prevention manager told responding officers that four girls were recorded on the market's surveillance cameras entering the store, heading for the dairy section and grabbing a couple of gallons of milk.
One of the girls reportedly smashed two milk gallons in one of the aisles and pretended to slip and fall in the milk while one of her friends filmed the whole thing with her cell phone.
The loss prevention manager turned surveillance footage of the incident over to police in the hopes that still images can be pulled for identification purposes.
What do you think of this new "gallon-smashing" trend?
The video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=L5AYYjd7s64
For Howie Carr ping list: Felong caning or tasing may be in order here.
All kids should be locked up when they are 13 and not released until they are 29. Maybe 35. I know I should have been. Unfortunately....
Isn’t this somehow contributing to climate change?
America’s progressive educated youts failing to honor Mother Gaia?
Buttholes all.
Back in the 80s was up at my hunting camp for our(friends and I) annual deer hunting trip. We hit the local supermarket and loading up the vehicle I placed a gallon of milk on the car roof so as to free a hand for packing. SPLAT it hits the ground and ruptures. Old Dave started 8itching and moaning about it. I let him finish whining and slowly said “No use cryin’ over it”. Everyone cracked up. It became the annual catch phrase for the season.
I believe I shot a meat doe that trip
Pretty much every grocery store of this size around the Eastern MA area has video cameras on every aisle. Just call the cops while assisting the little reprobates off the floor and getting them cleaned up. Escort them to the manager’s office and then review the tape, arrest them while they make arrangements for restitution.
Out & out vandalism is not a “prank”...any more than putting “pranksters” in public stocks for an afternoon’s worth of citizen entertainment is a “prank”.
Mislabeling it as such is a disservice to all in involved, including the English language; and it just encourages more of the same.
A prank is short-sheeting your buddy, or putting sugar in the salt shaker of a sourpuss...not that I have ever never ever even considered doing such a thing.
There are actual customers shopping in the video, it couldn’t have been filmed at a Shaw’s.
They get to show their hatred for capitalism by destroying some of the store’s assets without paying for it. They get sympathy from the idiots who run to their assistance. And they get to sue the store for not cleaning up the milk that they deliberately threw on the floor and that they slipped on.
Also, because they are useless pieces of $h!t, they get enjoyment out of the whole thing and chuckles from their fellow $h!tholes who view the videos.
As Mark Twain wisely advised, “When a child turns 12, put him in a barrel, nail down the lid and feed him through a knot hole. When he turns 16, plug the hole.”
The YouTube craze has only made the opportunity for adolescent idiocy worse.
And it’s not a prank. Calling it a prank dismisses it and gives the criminals permission to keep doing it.
Do they prosecute “flash robs?”
Stoopid kids.What if one of them had split their skull open during the “slip and fall”routine?Make em pay for damages and appologize to the store owners/employees.
Lighten up. These are just kids acting like kids always have. Punish them appropriately and move on.
OK now flame me!
They should be milkboarded.
“Attention all Store Personnel - We need an Ass Kicking on Aisle 9!”
Force them to lick up every last bit of the spilled milk from the aisle floor.
Obviously they’re witches.
Time to reinstate the Salem witch trials.
That’ll learn ‘em...
Having spent much of my life living and working in Third World countries where many go hungry for lack of food, I find pranks like this by our spoiled and very privileged yoots difficult to watch. We, who have so much, can afford to throw it on the ground and roll around in it. Cringeworthy. Very cringeworthy.
Where i come from they call this insurance fraud!!
Ooow, I just decided that if I witness such an act, I will move up beside the punk and pretend to slip and fall — right on top of the little prick. Being 6ft/250, it will leave a mark.