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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.
People who don’t know about the new cups by a company named Stanley: “Dang. She must really like hockey!”
I genuinely thought it was something to do with the NHL, like maybe mini commemorative replica cups or something. That at least would be interesting. This is just some weirdo stealing over priced thermos bottles.
I was in the same boat until I saw an explainer video from Vox
I had no idea and was very confused because the picture seemed completely unrelated, and I thought there was only one Stanley Cup…
People who also don’t know anything about hockey: huh?
The championship trophy in the NHL (National Hockey League, the premier North American hockey league) is “The Stanley Cup”.
Oh. Well, that tidbit hasn’t made it past the borders…
Thanks for the info! :)
At first I thought this might be a hilarious dig on Canada since they haven’t won the cup since 1993… not sure if you’re serious.
I’ve never heard of it. Hockey basically doesn’t exist in most of Europe. Never mind US hockey.
Their website is stanley1913.com, lmao.
But yes, my first thought was “how the fuck did she get one of those?” and then “only $2500?” and then “OHHHH”.
Is this from the office?