Woman arrested after police found $2,500 worth of Stanley cups in her car

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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.

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I went through a rollercoaster with this post.

At first I thought someone stole multiple NHL Stanley cups of which there is one.

Then I thought she was arrested because of the volume of cups she owned and no other reason.

I thought this was an onion article. I'll put myself to bed now.

Then I thought she was arrested because of the volume of cups she owned and no other reason.

"Idk what's going on here, but you're clearly out of control"

Basically. Those people should probably be removed from society

At first I thought someone stole multiple NHL Stanley cups of which there is one.

There's actually two.

Multiple sources say there are 3 actually. I had no idea.

Yeah there’s like 3 known to exist:

  1. The presentation cup that they actually give to the hockey team when they win the finals. That’s the one they cart around and drop into backyard pools and forget in taxis. I had a chance to see this cup one time ‘cause the guy who travels around with it showed up to a bar I used to frequent and his server was a friend of mine, and they got to talking and my buddy recognized him. He just flat out asked buddy, “you want to see it?” And they went out to the parking lot and there it was in the trunk of a rental car. I say that had a chance to see it in this context ‘cause I was at the bar that night but had already left and the moment just came and went and that was that.

  2. The cup that’s on display at the hall of fame in Toronto. You can just walk up to that one and stand around it. It’s nailed down to its podium but you can just, like, go right up to it and touch it. Maybe there’s a sign there that says not to touch it, I don’t know. I’ve been to see this cup.

  3. The original cup, which is in a vault at the hall of fame. I don’t think you can see that one without some kind of ceremony or special occasion or something? Maybe some paperwork or something? I don’t think that one is on display out in the open and it doesn’t have any of the bands on it, but you can see pictures of it if you search around.

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I still get confused when I hear women talking about these. For a split second I always think I'm going to have a new friend to talk about hockey with.

If you want to talk hockey to me, that’s fine. I’ll pretend to listen while fiddling with robot guts.

My NFL-fan-friend still hasn’t figured it out.

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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 had no idea and was very confused because the picture seemed completely unrelated, and I thought there was only one Stanley Cup...

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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".

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.

Best thing about this craze and scalping trend is that there are thousands of insulated mug brands and many are just as good or better so you can just buy something else if you want.

Unlike the GPU or PS5 scalping crazes.

Unfortunately only these cups go well with those fugly brown L. Vuitton bags...

Unlike the GPU or PS5 scalping crazes.

Could buy an AMD GPU or Xbox/PC.

Your obviously being sarcastic or ignorant. I did buy amd it was still expensive. And what do you think was making PCs expensive other than all of it..... The freaking GPUs. Intel or amd.

NVIDIA or AMD, not Intel. But hey what do I know? I'm ignorant.

Intel has integrated gpus on their mobile CPUs now.

Allows you to turn off the discrete gpu and save power on laptops.

Intel had intigrated graphics on CPU from very long ago well before laptops were packing discrete for gaming.

Intel has recently released a powerful GPU that rivals AMD and Nvidia

It's called the Arc

Eh... The top of the line Arc GPUs are only competitive with budget line Nvidia and AMD GPUs at about the same price point. And their drivers have had a lot of compatibility issues. It's an option, and I hope they get better, but they're not really a serious competitor yet.

They have discrete GPUs now too. They're currently basically just budget GPUs, but it looks like they may be actual competitors soon.

I didn't mention nvidia simply because they ended up screwing absolutely everybody over by stating that they were going to release some specific cards that were designed solely for crypto mining and then attempted to try and break their own firmware to prevent their graphical cards for gaming from being used for Bitcoin mining but that ended up being some b******* trickery they were a big portion of why the all of the cars ended up skyrocketing and price by allowing people to order multiples so that they could actually end up going for scalping blah blah blah blah blah I didn't want to give them a platform so I left them out and once again you showed your ignorance By ignoring Intel I'm sorry for the long run on sentence I just don't care to try and punctuate this

Everything nvidia did drove prices up and made cards more scarce. Fuck them I switched to full AMD only because of them.

I love the photo of the stuff on the hood like it's some big drug bust

Might as well be, I bet a brain scan would show significant similarities.

This Stanley cup thing is pissing me off because I have one of those green trigger coffee mugs that needs a new lid. You can't get replacement parts for practically any Stanley cup.

I could get a different coffee cup, but why should I change when it's these TikTok water cup weirdos that suck?

The worst thing is that a lot of people aren't even drinking out of them! They're just collecting expensive ass mugs to put on display. As a leftist hydro homie, that's so offensive to me. Buy one cup and put some damn water in it. Hydrate yourself and stop participating in OTT consumerism that just results in more shit in a landfill down the line, ffs.

I can understand having 2 or 3 to make sure you're drinking out of something clean without having to disassemble the whole thing every day, but a friend from work showed me how some people have like 20 of these things. Defeats the purpose of a reusable cup when you have a couple dozen.

Like you said, though. These aren't being used for their initial purpose. They're decor for lots of folks.

...which honestly wouldn't upset me so much if this automotive o-ring I'm using on my lid right now didn't leak and/or they'd keep their hands off the other less twee Stanley stuff. I like my mug.

Man, I get enough branded tumblers from work that I haven't had to buy one like ever. Most recently I got a 48 ounce one that's like only good for water because it's too much of anything else

I get a serious “Michael Bolton” vibe from this comment, but I completely agree. TikTok ruins everything.

What makes these better than hydro flask or yeti? Or their ripoffs?

The guy who ran Crocs shoes marketing years ago is the same guy behind this marketing.

Cache. It’s the “in” thing right now. Single-handedly improved Stanley’s profit margin

Stanley is OG though, I got one handed down from my gramps back in the day that still gets use. They just recently started wrapping them in colors other than black or army green lol

Yeah, they have always been bomb proof in terms of quality. Someone got the idea to slap some pastel or bright colours on them and white chicks went wild for it.

I don't get it. I mean I get that it's a fad, but why? Same with the fucking mullets; christ. Mullets were fucking terrible the first time around.

I'm getting older and that Abe Simpson quote about used to being with it is getting frighteningly accurate.

Sure, back when they were made in America, but Stanley has been dog shit at everything they have made since the 80's when they started outsourcing all their manufacturing to China

That's a good point, entirely new owners and all that. Definitely not still selling the "Stanley by Aladdin" thermos from the 70s.

I got one years ago but get annoyed with the over engineered press to sip lid because I have to wash it

I mean, technically, any profitable product will single handedly improve a company's profit margin, but I get your drift -- the Stanley Cup crazy is extraordinary.

I was so confused. I thought it was the hockey NHL Stanley Cup. Then it's worth more than that. Then how are they multiple? Then are they like miniature novelty ones? Then how do you get so many to be worth that much?

Crime aside, if I ever spend $45 on a water bottle, you all have permission to kill me.

Its a pretty good thing to spend money on if you use it on a daily basis. I work in a kitchen and need an insulated water bottle or I will literally die. Instead of using plastic I use a reusable bottle. I bought it a year ago and I have not looked back. Yeah, its more expensive than it needs to be and is a fad, but it's certainly not the most irresponsible thing you can spend $50 on. edit: removed superfluous an

I mean... It's a lot of metal... And it's strong enough to survive the job site for a decade.

As someone who frequents construction sites for my job, and also as someone who has owned a Stanley travel mug and water bottle before whatever the fuck this fad is ( over 10 years... ), they are nigh indestructible, and they keep temperature for longer than either my wife's Hydro flask or my yeti. So far in that sams period only my, Yeti coffee mug has survived as long. My wife has replaced her hyroflasj twice.

Just anecdotal, but I tend to be hard on things, and it's stayed with me this long... It's like $4/year for a coffee mug.

Sure, but there are re-usable metal insulated bottles that are a lot less than $45 and will also last for years. This is $45 because it's trendy.

Yeah, cant deny that. Relative to no bottle, it's better. Relative to other bottles, it's bad. A middle ground would be nice. Id like to think that maybe the fad-aspect of it will increase the amount of water bottle users over all, but I'm very pessimistic about that. edit: spelling

I've been reusing my liter bottle of aquafina for months now. Just buy a regular fuckin bottle and reuse it.

Those leach microplastic into your water. Don't reuse them. Although any $1 water bottle is probably safe.

Honestly the research shows microplastics are already everywhere so I'm not really worried about that

Car exhaust is everywhere. Do you huff directly from the tailpipe?

The main difference is microplastics are literally everywhere.

Bought a plastic wrapped sandwich? Microplastics. Drank from a plastic cup? Microplastics. Ate something that was prepared in a factory with plastic packaging? Microplastics.

Even things that don't look like plastics like fast food foil wrappers are still full of microplastics.

Idgaf anymore.

You missed a really big one of: did you wear clothing the has synthetic fibers? Bam! (Emeril voice) micro plastics.

I spent like $20 on two off brand metal ones and have used them for years now. Metal is easier to recycle and doesn't contribute to micro plastics

Not quite that expensive but, my LTT Water bottle is super nice tbh, no regrets

My regrets about my LTT bottle is that it's LTT. Still a functional bottle though.

I mean it would probably just about last a lifetime. Stanley are good bottles. Do you go through water bottles fast somehow?

You can lose a $20 water bottle as easily as a $45.

Well that's not the water bottle's fault. If you're prone to losing things then yeah a lifetime purchase isn't for you. I don't buy nice sunglasses for that reason, lol.

No, I don't go through water bottles fast, which is exactly why I wouldn't spend $45 on one.

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Factory cost is a few dollars

You can get high quality stainless steel thermos on AliExpress for $10-$20 (bought a few myself, can't believe how good they're), so I guess you're right.

Not every single day, but quite often, I'm reminded of how much I hate the general public and continue to be amazed at the new and exciting ways it's shown off.

Something similar my BF just said . Bad part is i agreed with him.

My wife and I align in this feeling pretty close. However I'm more rigid with my opinion of "people" in general.

So many people just want to fit in, I'm just not like that. I'm me, and you get what you get. I'm not gonna play games to be like everyone else or fall into silly things like suddenly Stanley cups have some crazy value associated with them.

Blah blah blah :)

Completely off topic but...

Does the Stanley cup have a sticker saying the product might cause cancer in the state of California?

Also why does every product I see potential cause cancer in the state of California only?

That is all. I'm too lazy to Google the question but thought I would annoy someone about it here.

Thank you.

California just has laws in place that requires items that have potential carcinogens to be labeled. That's it.

Well, that and their bar for what qualifies is really low. If a single study shows that a chemical agent may cause cancer in animals, it will be listed. It doesn't actually have to be confirmed. Also, in many cases, manufacturers will simply put the label on their products by default to avoid being sued in California because it would cost them more to verify whether it contains one of the many listed chemicals or not. As such, the labels have largely become noise at this point.

California law. proposition 65

Basically, they have a list of things “known to the state of California to cause cancer”. If a material on that list is used in a product, that product needs to have a “proposition 65” warning label in order to be sold in CA.

Which, since everything is a polluted mess, basically everything is on that list.

The bubble that regulates the weather at Disneyland has weird interactions with certain items, so California has to warn people.x

I honestly don't get these fads. Last one that left me scratching my head like this was the yeti cooler craze, and before that was the instapot craze. Mindless hyper consumerism, that will be used just as much as your last mug, cooler, pot all of which are likely in a landfill now.

The only one I get is the Instapot. I actually use that a lot, and it makes incredible food in a very short time.

My grandma used pressure cookers in the 50s, they weren't very safe then. But even before the instapot, pressure cookers had all sorts of safety features that make them quite usable. I just don't get the hype of one instance of commodity items.

It's so ridiculous to see it getting pushed in real-time too. A few days ago every news outlet was simultaneously posting stories about these stupid cups or people waiting in line to buy these cups out of the blue just trying to drive the latest craze. There's no way that's organic.

So she had like 0.0003% of the Stanley Cup?! A 1/3 of a percent of the Stanley Cup by weight would be something like 1.8 OZ, so maybe enough to peel off one team's roster?

(And yeah now I know, it's a bunch of mugs, not that Stanley Cup.)

I have 2 Walmart Ozark Trail 32 oz tumblers that work great. The only thing they don't have is the lid with the slide cover for the drink hole. Spent a total of twenty dollars.

I've got like 8 different tumblers from my last 3 workplaces. I haven't had to buy one in forever

I bought a few cheap pieces of camping gear from that brand a few years ago in a pinch, and you know what? I still have it. Some of that stuff is solid.

I'm so thankful I invested in my humble Stanley thermos years before this Stanley craze took off. The price of these things has gotten out of hand.

Of course that would happen in Roseville. Criminals of suburbia are weird.

My wife said these cups are expensive. Did she steal like 3 or 4?

I thought they were referring to the Stanley Cup of racing and was very confused.

You mean hockey? I also clicked the article wondering how many Stanley cup trophies you could get for $2500.

lol I'm terrible with all the sports.

I guess my coworker visited California last weekend.

That sounds like a mental health thing, I hope shes getting help.

Nah, I think "Hey I think I see a way to make a bunch of money" happened. "Stanley cups have suddenly become very popular and thus scarce, so I'll go get a bunch of them and sell them for more than their retail price. oh, their retail price is actually quite high. I know, I'll just shoplift them! Profit margins increase!"

The psychology I find fascinating is the trend itself. A brand of quality insulated metal water cups that has apparently existed this whole time has suddenly become a popular fashion item among the instagramettes. We've apparently reached the shoplifting stage of the craze. I wonder how many fistfights there will be over $45 water bottles.

From the point of view of a male 30-something hermit, the journey has gone like this so far: I use Firefox, and if you don't set a homepage it has this start screen with buttons for sites you frequent as well as a bunch of news articles served by whatever the hell Pocket is. One of them had an image of a bright pink handled drinking cup with a headline to the effect of "Confessions of a cup girl." I did not read this article. A short time later, someone posts to Lemmy the picture of Homer Simpson in the lesbian bar, all the women have those same pink cups, he's got the hockey trophy. Now here we are, a 23-year old woman has been arrested for stealing a shopping cart full of them. It's absolutely fucking hilarious.

My sister in law gave me one of these things for xmas. I like it but $45 seems steep. I had no clue there was a trend!

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...

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.

How so? They're expensive cups with an active resale market. This looks like generic retail theft.

On the one hand she’s got a great entrepreneurial spirit but on the other hand, stealing from a store is never ok to do.