[corsar-caribean]

I was just talking with a business associate on the phone and he tried telling me about this 'Tide laundry detergent shortage'. I was going WTF are you talking about?? He tried telling me about how there's people buying Tide laundry detergent and taking it into Mexico to sell. Again I asked him WTH are you talking about?!?!? He didn't have all his facts straight, but apparently there's 'something' to this 'Tide laundry detergent thefts'. If you're like me, you're asking yourself if I've lost my mind.

So I do a 'net search for 'Tide detergent thefts'. What I find is VERY curious - I scanned 100 search results for the posting/reporting date. Roughly 90% of them were posted online the week of March 12, '12. I found ONE which was posted in mid-February, and one each posted in May and June. I think there was one or two posted in early April. And then there was a lone news posted of a couple of guys getting sentenced in mid August for theft of Tide laundry detergent. It's like the subject matter went viral in mid-March last spring and then just dropped off the radar.

And I gotta tell ya, this strikes me as very weird and very anomalous - as if it was NOT spontaneous and organic, as in this was a 'created' (perhaps by P&G and/or its agent(s)?) phenomenon which popped into existence in mid-March and then just as quickly evaporated.

If anyone has any opinions on the 'Tide laundry detergent thefts' I'd love to hear 'em. I find it all just very, very weird. Trading bottles of Tide detergent for drugs?? That's some crazy shit right there.