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Over at Reddit, a contributor says they have discovered a new way to amuse themselves — and hopefully others — while shopping at Costco.
“My new hobby is making creepy shopping lists and dropping them in random peoples’ baskets at Costco,” reads the caption accompanying the image seen here.
While none of us are cocaine users, we are curious to hear whether or not the Kirkland Signature version of the narcotic is as potent as the brand name stuff.
My new hobby is making creepy shopping lists and dropping them in random peoples’ baskets at Costco [Reddit]
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Unfortunately, they only sell cocaine in the 4-kilo HandiPak, so it costs $84,000.
I just wish they would divide it into baggies…hate the way they put it all in one brick.
/so lame
Yeah, but with costco’s return policy you can snort most of it then bring it back, tell them you didn’t like it.
Does it come with a coupon for baking soda? Gots ta cut it yo.
I can’t wait to do this…
Pshhh, my hobby is better: I throw glitter on goth kids and then ask if they’re team Edward.
Ok, I think your comment just made my morning.
+1,000 internets for you sir!
Did someone say glitter?
Wow…That is mature.
Later are they going to play Ding-Dong-Ditch?
http://consumerist.com/2011/08/grocery-shrink-ray-zaps-nates-meatless-balls.html
Apparently it fits in on this site.
Oh, come on, this is hilarious! It’s not harming or even annoying anyone, which makes it one of the most mature pranks I’ve seen in a long time. If he gets a good chuckle out of it (as I did), and the worst impact he’s having on anyone is them getting a WTF moment, I think that’s doing pretty good.
This is pretty harmless stuff. If I found this in my cart I’d probably get a chuckle out of it and leave it for the next person. I’ve had occasional trips to the store where I’ve bought such an odd assortment of things that I’m self-conscious. Seeing this list brings those memories right back.
On a related note, I think I’m too old to ring and run these days.
One of my trips when I was in college… trying to impress my girl..
Steak. Lobster. Whip Cream. Chocolate Syrup. Potatos. Condoms.
Psst. I think some of the neighbor kids are on your lawn.
“Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” -C.S. Lewis
tl;dr: Maturity doesn’t exclude being silly. I’d laugh if I found one of these in my basket.
I’m just hoping he never gets caught by someone who’s insane enough to sue and ruin everybody’s fun.
That’s a great quote – I’m going to have to remember it.
What’s Ding-Dong-Ditch? Must have missed that during my childhood.
When I was younger it had an unfortunate very un-PC name for it but I’m sure the idea is the same.
Ring a random person’s doorbell. Run and hide in the bushes. Laugh. Repeat.
No ice soap or 2am chili supplies?
Haha!
Upvote for you.
I bet you’re the same person and you’re just trying to get more Karma by up voting yourself… on Consumerist. You’re that diabolical.
So have another… +2
Better screencap it and post it to Reddit in that case!
Shutup and take my upboat!
LOL, I shall give you an upvote!
only with spicy club sauce.
Really, Consumerist? If I wanted to read reddit’s sloppy seconds, I’d just go back to reddit and re-read all the threads.
X-post all the things!!!!!1!!1
I was told that your mom was not opposed to sloppy seconds.
I read that as Sean Connery in SNL Jeopardy voice.
Suck it Trebek!
Hell, I wasn’t logged in and your post irritated me enough to spend the few seconds to log in and tell you to please go take a chill pill.
This post is funny no matter where it came from.
I don’t read reddit, but when there’s something there that in some way affects us as consumers, and when that something is funny, I appreciate Consumerists posting it.
You should just go away.
kinda like grocerylists.org
Menopause hoodies anyone? http://www.grocerylists.org/wp-content/gallery/lists-2201-2300/2216.jpg
Simpsons did it:
Homer: Yeah, um, give me one of those porno magazines, a large box of condoms, a bottle of Old Harper, a box of panty shields… [rapid undertone] and some illegal fireworks… [normal voice] and one of those disposable enemas. You know what, make it two.
Marge: (back at home) Ew, Homer. Whatever you’re planning for tonight, count me out. Didn’t you buy any meat?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqfxmWbelcQ
You beat me to it…That was my very first thought when I read this story.
A few weeks ago I went on a little vacation with the missus. We forgot to pack – uhm, lube. So’s I went to the local grocery store, bought a case of beer and bottle of lube. The check out chick started to ask, “so, how’s your weekend goin…..oh”.
I smiled and went on my merry way.
I was thinking of this Simpsons episode the entire time.
I did this when I was 17. But made it less obvious.
We also made fake labels and put them on canned goods and put them on the shelves at the grocery store.
Andddd… when I was a teenager at some crime scene interactive exhibit at MOS in Boston, I emptied the notes that friends I passed around in school
from my backpack and put them in the “crime scene” as evidence
That’s funny. I write fake Consumerist stories for the amusement of others.
Phil… is that you?
So, what fake stories have you written recently?
From xkcd:
“Fun game: find a combination of two items that most freaks out the cashier. Winner: pregnancy test and single coat hanger.”
http://xkcd.com/236/
Now that was funny.
As a young’un, director John Waters and his crew used to play “Shopping for Other People”, slipping completely incongruous items into shoppers carts when their backs were turned. He showed a little bit of this in his movie “Pecker”.
John Waters told that story on some talk show…then someone did it to him. (teehee)
I always get a chuckle over that.
- Axe
- 10 gallons hydrochloric acid
- Large plastic tubs
- Plunger
- Mop
- Floor cleaner
teddy bears
boys underware
vasoline
puppy chow
rope
duct tape
chainsaw
garbage bags
shovel
GPS
quicklime,lots of quicklime
Season 1 of Dexter
or season 1 of Breaking Bad
Or season 12 of Mister Rogers
That shopping list was one of the items found on Michael Jackson after he died.
I wonder how far you could push this without them calling in the FBI.
Another good idea: pose as a greeter and say
“Welcome to Costco, I love you.”
to every entering customer.
“Congratulations – You’re our 1 millionth customer! Take this certificate to customer service, and they’ll give you your prize!”
+1
The best part is the flag graphic at the top of the page.
My friend doe this to his wife’s grocery lists. Just adds random stuff to it.
She hates it, but when you go over and see the list on the fridge for the weekly grocery trip you laugh.
he does it actually. He does not femal deer it.
Thank goodness…. because we know what those femal deer things can do!
lol – yea I know… we all need the edit button sometimes.
We used to add plastic soldiers to every shopping list the other made as a running joke.
internet points to the person who gets the reference.
Bad, bad idea to make up any shopping list mentioning illicit drugs, explosives or anything that can be used in the commission of a crime. It could easily get your or the person you’re pranking charged with intent to distribute, or otherwise commit some other sort of felony.
Wacky items, or humorously suggestive combinations – fine. But stay away from anything that could get someone in trouble.
The jails are full of people who had the word “cocaine” written on a piece of paper.
In the late 60s and 70s as crime spiraled, we pleaded with our government at every level for “more law and order” and as a result got a legal system that uses references to drugs (not even the drugs themselves, necessarily) and possession of unusual amounts of cash as an excuse to jail people and confiscate their property. It’s not like we have Constitutional protections against disproportionate sentencing or taking stuff without due process or anything…
All for the lack of a sense of humor.
You know who else didn’t have a sense of humor?
Mussolini? Stalin? Help me out here.
Every so often I’ll find a leftover shopping list in my cart, and I am nosy, so I have to read it. It’s fun to try to imagine who left it. Old or young? Male or female? Sometimes the spelling is pretty bad, so it’s a challenge trying to figure out what they actually bought.
A friend of mine will occasionally secret in and leave odd items in odd places when he comes to visit. We have discovered a vase in the shower, a non-functioning can opener in a side table and a magazine on ferrets in the laundry supplies. It took us a long time to figure out how this was happening and who the culprit was. Quirky, but funny.
Yeah, that was funny when I was 12, and then I realized that nobody actually reads them.
Fun idea. I usually just write random funny stuff on the grocery lists hanging on my friends’ fridges, this is a whole new world of the same.
=0)
Almost as much fun is to photocopy ONE side of a one hundred dollar bill and leave it on a shelf at Wally World. Yup, legal, if you only copy one side. And don’t forget the front of the bill is black enough that most folks won’t notice.
Its all fun and games until the Department of Homeland Security is knocking down your door and shipping you off to Guantanamo.