“While Stanley Quenchers are all the rage, we strongly advise against turning to crime to fulfill your hydration habits,” police said.

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.

  • JCreazyEnglish
    23·
    11 months ago

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

    • IamSparticles@lemmy.zipEnglish
      21·
      11 months ago

      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.