Sunday, September 30, 2007

What an odd thing to make the AP wire...

Slow news day in Wisconsin, I guess.
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8 comments:

Anonymous said...

I dunno, I thought it was
kind of an absorbing story.
Anon, Don

6:44 AM, September 30, 2007
Matt G said...

I had a friend once whose little brother had this thing about toilet paper-- he couldn't bring himself to buy it. He was ashamed (apparently) that people would see him in the aisle at the supermarket with a package of toilet paper, and would say, "Aha! I know what you're going to do with that, you dirty bugger!"

He was otherwise a very generous and giving person, and was in no other way a thief.

But he also would not use anything that would remotely be construed as a public restroom, making long trips rather difficult.

When my wife and I see these kinds of stories on the news, we just grin and say, "Cool! Nobody died in horrible tsunamis, today."

7:20 AM, September 30, 2007
Anonymous said...

People will steal anything. At work I've had computer equipment stolen that would be absolutely useless to 99.9% of the people out there. And yeah, we've had the "John Wayne" toilet paper stolen too.

All together now:

"It's rough, it's tough, and it won't take !@@# off of anybody."

9:32 AM, September 30, 2007
Anonymous said...

"Hey, what's new?"

Backing up some fifty years: A buddy of mine was a mechanic at a filling station in Fort Lauderdale. He and others would bring the final one-third of bars of soap and of rolls of toilet paper from home. If they put new bars or rolls in the restrooms, they'd be stolen.

Sleazoiditis ain't a new thing...

Art

9:41 AM, September 30, 2007
phlegmfatale said...

It was probably an inside job, and some city employee being on the take.

11:43 AM, September 30, 2007
Gewehr98 said...

Yeah, it was a slow news day up here, but I was outta tush tissue, and payday ain't until next Thursday for me. :)

4:49 PM, September 30, 2007
Anonymous said...

If nothing else (and let's face it, it is nothing else) this seems to answer the previous question defining governmental services, in a neighboring state:

"Well, if they were non-essential...?"

9:15 PM, September 30, 2007
Shard said...

I suspect a massive TP bootlegging conspiracy, just as you TN folks are seeing with cigs.

10:51 PM, September 30, 2007

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