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Title: Carded for Caulk. The crap?
Post by: Marnoot on April 28, 2008, 08:13:49 AM
Lupinus' thread reminded me that a couple weeks ago I got carded at Home Depot to purchase some concrete repair caulk. I was at the self check-out, scanned the caulk and it popped up and said ID/age verification required. I asked the clerk, "For caulk?!?" she said something along the line of "kids do crazy stuff these days." How on earth could caulk be abused in such a manner as to prompt Home Depot to card for it? What other strange stuff have you been carded for?
Title: Re: Carded for Caulk. The crap?
Post by: Manedwolf on April 28, 2008, 08:17:21 AM
If they're putting caulk up their nose, I want to see the mug shots.

Or is a drive-by caulking?
Title: Re: Carded for Caulk. The crap?
Post by: Firethorn on April 28, 2008, 08:21:42 AM
If they're putting caulk up their nose, I want to see the mug shots.

Or is a drive-by caulking?

Maybe they're putting into the locks at school?  (Senior pranks gone wrong...)
Title: Re: Carded for Caulk. The crap?
Post by: Leatherneck on April 28, 2008, 08:22:07 AM
What do you think one uses to apply caulk?

It's for the children, you see... rolleyes

TC
Title: Re: Carded for Caulk. The crap?
Post by: Scout26 on April 28, 2008, 08:36:02 AM
Did the self checkout thing at Wal-mart a couple of days ago.

*BING*
Computer Screen pops up the ID/age verification required.


For Super Glue... rolleyes
Title: Re: Carded for Caulk. The crap?
Post by: Nitrogen on April 28, 2008, 08:41:18 AM
If you think that's bad...
...I got carded for buying eye drops at Walgreens.

They have it behind a locked shelf now.

Eyedrops.
Title: Re: Carded for Caulk. The crap?
Post by: Declaration Day on April 28, 2008, 09:58:44 AM
I got carded for buying spray paint several years ago.  It was a new city ordinance that I learned about at the checkout counter. 

I had a brief discussion with the cashier, and she said the new law would help curb gang activity in the city.  rolleyes 

Mind you, this was in the suburbs where the most serious crime committed most days was petty shoplifting or running a red light.
Title: Re: Carded for Caulk. The crap?
Post by: John G on April 28, 2008, 10:07:26 AM
About six years ago, WalMart carded me for a sharpening stone.  No knife, just a sharpening stone.  rolleyes
Title: Re: Carded for Caulk. The crap?
Post by: Devonai on April 28, 2008, 10:26:07 AM
Don't go off half-caulked, they just want to make sure you can seal the deal.
Title: Re: Carded for Caulk. The crap?
Post by: HankB on April 28, 2008, 11:55:06 AM
You guys must really look sinister . . . I've bought everything from beer to ammo at Wal-Mart, and have never been "carded."
Title: Re: Carded for Caulk. The crap?
Post by: Manedwolf on April 28, 2008, 11:56:07 AM
You guys must really look sinister . . . I've bought everything from beer to ammo at Wal-Mart, and have never been "carded."

I did get a funny look one time when I bought a happy greeting card and a gasoline can.
Title: Re: Carded for Caulk. The crap?
Post by: Perd Hapley on April 28, 2008, 12:20:05 PM
I got carded for buying spray paint several years ago.  It was a new city ordinance that I learned about at the checkout counter.  I had a brief discussion with the cashier, and she said the new law would help curb gang activity in the city.  rolleyes 


It's not just gangs, it's about grafitti in general.  A lot of places just don't sell it anymore. 
Title: Re: Carded for Caulk. The crap?
Post by: Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas on April 28, 2008, 12:20:22 PM
Been carded for a tiny can of wood putty before. At Wal-Mart, naturally.
Title: Re: Carded for Caulk. The crap?
Post by: wmenorr67 on April 28, 2008, 01:17:42 PM
You guys must really look sinister . . . I've bought everything from beer to ammo at Wal-Mart, and have never been "carded."

Well maybe it is because you make Moses look young.
Title: Re: Carded for Caulk. The crap?
Post by: lupinus on April 28, 2008, 01:21:33 PM
caulk colonoscopy
Title: Re: Carded for Caulk. The crap?
Post by: grampster on April 28, 2008, 03:52:49 PM
Don't go off half-caulked, they just want to make sure you can seal the deal.

A good joke should not go un pun ished.
Title: Re: Carded for Caulk. The crap?
Post by: Scout26 on April 28, 2008, 04:15:41 PM
Yep, in Chicago, Spray paint (like guns) are banned.  That's why you'll never see any graffiti in Chicago   rolleyes and there are no shootings  rolleyes.  (something like only 13 this past weekend as opposed to the ~36 the previous weekend.)
Title: Re: Carded for Caulk. The crap?
Post by: InfidelSerf on April 28, 2008, 06:24:45 PM
I was carded for buying WhiteOut and compressed air cannisters.   
What the heck is wrong with all the freely available and fairly inexpensive drugs like pot, pills, shrooms, coke and lsd?
Are the kids these days that cheap they can't buy a decent "real" drug to get their jollies off?? That they have to resort to all these off the wall
substances to catch a buzz.   
I mean I'm made to feel like a criminal just because I have a runny nose!!
Title: Re: Carded for Caulk. The crap?
Post by: JimMarch on April 29, 2008, 12:11:33 AM
If somebody from China used it, would they be Caulkasian?
Title: Re: Carded for Caulk. The crap?
Post by: just Warren on April 29, 2008, 01:00:40 AM
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kids do crazy stuff these days."

So a few caulk-suckers ruin it for the rest of us.
Title: Re: Carded for Caulk. The crap?
Post by: MicroBalrog on April 29, 2008, 05:05:11 AM
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What the heck is wrong with all the freely available and fairly inexpensive drugs like pot, pills, shrooms, coke and lsd?

Who dies and made LSD and coke 'fairly inexpensive'?
Title: Re: Carded for Caulk. The crap?
Post by: Ex-MA Hole on April 29, 2008, 05:14:20 AM
I bought some decongestants and not only got carded, but they now keep them behind the counter?
Title: Re: Carded for Caulk. The crap?
Post by: Manedwolf on April 29, 2008, 05:16:31 AM
I bought some decongestants and not only got carded, but they now keep them behind the counter?

That's been that way for a couple years now. Anything that has pseudoephedrine in it, you have to take a card to the counter and get it, and you're only allowed a few boxes.
Title: Re: Carded for Caulk. The crap?
Post by: Ex-MA Hole on April 29, 2008, 05:31:52 AM
I'm new to this- why?
Title: Re: Carded for Caulk. The crap?
Post by: Racehorse on April 29, 2008, 05:36:23 AM
I'm new to this- why?

It's a key ingredient to making Meth. Of course, the druggies could never find another source. Oh no... rolleyes
Title: Re: Carded for Caulk. The crap?
Post by: PTK on April 29, 2008, 07:16:48 AM
Yeah, you know, like... getting every member of the gang together to buy the maximum allowable pseudoephedrine products from a variety of stores across a few miles. Or buying from Mexico, Canada, etc. Or just using a different precursor. Or just making the meth IN Mexico or Canada and bringing it here.



Well, at least meth use and production decreased, right?
Title: Re: Carded for Caulk. The crap?
Post by: Sergeant Bob on April 29, 2008, 12:39:53 PM
Yeah, you know, like... getting every member of the gang together to buy the maximum allowable pseudoephedrine products from a variety of stores across a few miles. Or buying from Mexico, Canada, etc. Or just using a different precursor. Or just making the meth IN Mexico or Canada and bringing it here.



Well, at least meth use and production decreased, right?

[jedimindtrick]There is no meth problem, pseudoephedrine has been controlled so meth can not exist[/jedimindtrick]
Title: Re: Carded for Caulk. The crap?
Post by: Scout26 on April 29, 2008, 04:48:36 PM
Shortly after the law requiring that Sudafed, etc. be kept behind the counter, the brave and noble Sheriff of DuPage county, John Zaruba, sent his deputies out and promptly busted about five or six clerks at local Kwik-e-Marts for brazenly flouting the law by still having Sudafed and other sinus relief drugs out IN FRONT OF THE COUNTER
THE HORROR

I mean we wouldn't want to waste taxpayer dollars (and endanger deputies) by actually , umm I don't know, going after Meth Labs......

Meanwhile he's got the full blown Delta Force style SWAT team, a V-100 Armored Security Vehicle  http://www.dupageco.org/sheriff/special%20operations.htm and an Emergency Response/Urban Assualt Winnabago.   http://www.dupageco.org/sheriff/homeland%20security.htm

Oh, and he's against Concealed Carry and "Assualt Weapons" in private hands..... Shocking, I know.....
Title: Re: Carded for Caulk. The crap?
Post by: WeedWhacker on April 30, 2008, 06:19:17 AM
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He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name. This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666 (Rev. 13:16-18).

It's got to start somewhere.
Title: Re: Carded for Caulk. The crap?
Post by: Nick1911 on April 30, 2008, 06:57:12 AM
I got carded for buying 3-in-one oil.

That's right, a small bottle of light viscosity, non-aerosol, vegetable based oil.  How the *heck* one abuses that, I have no idea.
Title: Re: Carded for Caulk. The crap?
Post by: Manedwolf on April 30, 2008, 07:07:09 AM
I got carded for buying 3-in-one oil.

That's right, a small bottle of light viscosity, non-aerosol, vegetable based oil.  How the *heck* one abuses that, I have no idea.

You could slip and fall on it and sue them?
Title: Re: Carded for Caulk. The crap?
Post by: Scout26 on April 30, 2008, 07:19:47 AM
I got carded for buying 3-in-one oil.

That's right, a small bottle of light viscosity, non-aerosol, vegetable based oil.  How the *heck* one abuses that, I have no idea.

You obviously haven't seen the Karma Sutra thread........ cheesy
Title: Re: Carded for Caulk. The crap?
Post by: Vick Barker on April 30, 2008, 01:34:44 PM
I walked into someone's stupid zone at Walmart last week while attempting to buy Sudafed for my son. The pharmacy attendant asks "What type do you want?" To which I unfortunately reply "I don't know, it's for my son and wife, I never use it." He then asks me "Is your son under eighteen?" "Yes, he's seventeen" I state. To which he replies, now get this, "Well, you can purchase it for your son, but, your wife will have to come in and present her own ID to purchase it for her use!" You've bloody got to be kidding me!

So envision with me, if you will, a partially consumed 48-count box of Sudafed 4-6 hour in our family's medicine cabinet. My wife queries me some evening, "Honey, do we have any Sudafed in the house?" Can you imagine her surprise when I reply, "Well yes, honey, but, you can't have any because I purchased it for our son using my ID. You'll have to go yourself to the helpful professionals at Walmart's pharmacy to purchase some using your ID! Oh, and pickup a copy of George Orwell's book 1984 while you're there, I haven't read that one in a while!"
Title: Re: Carded for Caulk. The crap?
Post by: wmenorr67 on April 30, 2008, 03:42:17 PM
Or even better your son turns 18.  Now he cannot use that either since you bought it for him while he was 17.
Title: Re: Carded for Caulk. The crap?
Post by: MrRezister on May 01, 2008, 04:11:49 AM
Me and several of my navy friends were questioned and carded as we were checking out of a local grocery store, with 6 cans of aerosol whipped cream and a large bottle of Robitussin each. 

That was a strange night.
Title: Re: Carded for Caulk. The crap?
Post by: wmenorr67 on May 01, 2008, 09:31:57 AM
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell," at work here. grin
Title: Re: Carded for Caulk. The crap?
Post by: 41magsnub on May 01, 2008, 10:30:00 AM
"What type do you want?"

Which type is the better Meth catalyst?  I want that one.  The look on his face would almost make whatever happens worth it.
Title: Re: Carded for Caulk. The crap?
Post by: Manedwolf on May 01, 2008, 11:09:53 AM
"What type do you want?"

Which type is the better Meth catalyst?  I want that one.  The look on his face would almost make whatever happens worth it.