The craze for Stanley stainless steel drinking cups reached new levels last week when a woman was arrested and accused of stealing 65 of them, worth almost $2,500, from a store in California.

Police in Roseville, in Placer County, northeast of Sacramento, said Sunday that they were called Wednesday to a report of a theft from a store on Stanford Ranch Road in the city.

“Staff saw a woman take a shopping cart full of Stanley water bottles without paying for them. The suspect refused to stop for staff and stuffed her car with the stolen merchandise,” police said in a statement on Facebook.

  • Donjuanme@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Thank you, I read this and was shocked the hockey trophy was stolen, and was so cheap.

    I saw that Homer Simpson meme and had no idea I was supposed to be looking at the other cups XD

    Why are they popular? I’ve got 3 excellent thermos cup type things from Costco for 20 bucks…

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      10 months ago

      As far as I understand, it’s influencer fashion. Somebody with a popular Tiktok account has said “you’ve got to have one of these” and it was so.