The media got the 25,000 Taco Bell packet story wrong and someone who knows someone involved wrote in to get the facts straight.

Above is a picture from one of the participant’s cellphones, “of the mess they left on the Taco Bell floor.”

According our tipster’s report, none of the sauce was stolen. One individual simply ate “A LOT” of Taco Bell and stockpiled the extra packets from his meals in the back of his car for three years.

Nobody wore masks, although some of the ten wore baseball caps. The participants were teenagers, not men, the eldest being 18 or 19. And there were eleven 40-gallon trashbags, not six.

“The individual responsible for the stockpiling left a note apologizing for the hoarding and that he felt bad for doing so,” says our tipster.

Obviously they didn’t think about their action’s unintended consequences. In a bid to fight future taco terrorism, Taco Bell announced they will make all sauce packets transparent.

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