Posted on 12/06/2019 8:25:15 AM PST by re_tail20
Cracker Jack was usually such a disappointment. You'd tear the open the top of the cheap cardboard box, then pull apart and eat some not-very-fresh popcorn covered in not-very-tasty caramel, along with some peanuts that seemed to have something kind of wrong about them. Then you'd finally get to the "prize" about two-thirds of the way down, which if you were lucky was some kind of cheap plastic lion or bear, but mostly you weren't lucky. Maybe they've gotten better since I was a kid, but the two things I remember most distinctly were a sense of disappointment... and an eagerness to go back for more.
The genius of Cracker Jack isn't that they sell caramel-covered popcorn of sometimes dubious freshness. The genius of Cracker Jack is that they sell the thrill of the unknown. "What is the prize? I simply must know!" That's why Cracker Jack -- first introduced in 1896 -- is still around today. How many other name-brand consumer products can you buy right now that got their start near the end of the 19th century?
Now imagine the thrill of buying another inexpensive consumer product -- in this case, a baby bouncer from Goodwill -- and finding a Mossberg 715T semi-automatic .22LR rifle inside. And you didn't even have to eat any of those weird peanuts to get to it. That's exactly what happened to a Florida couple shopping for a baby shower present on Sunday.
FOX 35 Orlando reports:
Veronica Alvarez-Rodriguez said she was attending a baby shower on Sunday, so she stopped by the Goodwill in Valparaiso to pick up a gift. That's where she found a Baby Einstein baby bouncer in an unopened box that appeared to be new. For only $9.99, it was quite a bargain. Alvarez-Rodriguez took the gift to the...
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Okay, this story is officially bullshit. That rifle did NOT come out of that box. And whats with the pistol ammo and pistol magazine on the table? Were they in the box, too?
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Meanwhile, somewhere else in the country someone is opening up a Mossberg box. Hey, whats this baby bouncer doing in the box!?
LOL!
Oh, come on, I bet they were planning to hose it off at the quarter car wash, on the way to the baby shower. Presto! Good as new!
/sarc
Unless it was used in a driveby or other criminal activity...
I’d not want it fingering me to something I didn’t do.
Lol. Many years ago I was working on photographic light tables. We would rob parts off of broken ones to fix up useable ones. Many of these tables had been in storage since the Vietnam war. In a big drawer in one of them we found an M60 machine gun. I guess someone put it there figuring that he could get it later. Lol.
In another instance a friend bought some unlabelled crates from salvage at Hill AFB. You used to buy stuff cheap not knowing what it was. When he opened the crates amongst other stuff was 2 Browning M2s. Lolol. He turned them back in but kept the photographic evidence. They stopped selling stuff like that soon after.
Yep. Ive a mid-60s Sears Christmas Wishbook. Has real guns, very realistic toy guns, chemistry sets with fun chemicals, even snowmobiles.
It is obviously a toy replica.
Media spreading lies again.
You bounce down, it fires a shot and ...right back up again. Really, what are the chances of a ricochet going straight up.
Now that’s a deal!!!
Never forget where you hide your weapons.
We’ve shopped at Goodwill. For ourselves and others. You got a problem with that?
Veronica Alvarez-Rodriguez
I bet she applies for a U-Visa next week
Actually Target donates a lot of unused stuff to local Goodwills. Everyone in town used to go to the Goodwill on Tuesday (delivery day)to check it out. The items were usually clearance that had not sold or older stock. They were all in original boxes and many still had the shrinkwrap intact. I have seen entire pots and pans sets for $25.00, ones that retailed for $200 or more.
Nice.
CALL the Goodwill Store on RESEARCH BLVD in Austin, TX & ask the manager what they have each Friday PM for the SAT auction.
That store gets LOTS of NICE vintage amps for some reason or other. - Those generally sell in the Saturday PM auction for 40 bucks or less..
Fwiw, about 2 years ago I got a 10HP, 1966, EVINRUDE OB motor, in GREAT SHAPE, out of the auction for 101.oo. = It LOOKS/RUNS fine as power for my 14’ aluminum semi-VEE LONE STAR “tin” boat.
Yours, TMN78247
Not at all. But if you brought my newborn baby a used toy from Goodwill that some un-vaccinated kid with leprosy from El Savador had puked all over, yeah, I'd have a problem with that.
Well yeah. May I be permitted a tiny eye-roll here?
Quite a few actually.
Heinz Ketchup, Hershey Chocolate and Coca-Cola to name three.
But I am just annoyed that I never find good stuff like this at the used stores.
However I did find a intact Monopoly set from 1946.
My first thought, after suspecting they found an AK-47.
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