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Monday, May 14, 2007

Robber caught in Dallas jacking truck full of Skittles

By Pegasus News wire

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DALLAS — What's the best thing about this item about a guy who was discovered by the cops on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. in the 5100 block of Lamar Street South seemingly having stolen a tractor-trailer truck?

Is it that:

  • When the cops caught Alan Chavez, 22, removing the tires, he claimed he'd paid someone $500 for the tires and rims?
  • Or is it that the the truck was loaded with Skittles*?
  • Or is it that the truck was supposed to contain 28 pallets of Skittles but 7 were missing?

*Skittles: "small, round fruit chews that come in hard, sugar shells with the letter "s" printed on them, representing the candy's name... similar in outward appearance to plain M&M's, which, like Skittles, are produced by MasterFoods, a division of Mars, Incorporated."

Posted by T.G.

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kirk

kirk Anonymous

Definitely the seven missing pallets. Perhaps they are destined to become Strawberry Quick? Twisted Dog needs to sniff his way to the bottom of this story, so to speak.

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twisteddog

twisteddog Anonymous

Hey, I had nothing to do with this. I just happen to know off the top of my head that there are 2.7 oz of skittles to a package; 36 packages to a box; 12 boxes to a 40 lb case; and there are about 36 cases to a pallet.

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kirk

kirk Anonymous

Off the top of my head, I'd say someone carried off 10,080 pounds (or 4,572.2 kg) of Skittles. Can you imagine the mess if all those boxes broke open and spilled Skittles all over the Woodall Rogers?

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Teresa Gubbins

Teresa Gubbins Staff

y'know, kirk, a suspicious mind might begin to wonder if you yourself had something to do with the skittles caper

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ms_ery Anonymous

Here comes the journalism prof again: Nice breezy story, but a brief description of what Skittles are would have been nice. From the comments, I'm guessing that is a candy, one of those that come in little envelopes. Am I right?

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Teresa Gubbins

Teresa Gubbins Staff

ms_ery, thanks for your efforts to make http://pegasusnews.com more excellent in every way. i've added a description of the mysterious "skittles" in the story with a link to wikipedia.

if you look on FrontBurner, you'll see a relevant conversation regarding the DMN's description of said "skittles." As Adam points out, the DMN originally offered a descriptor: "Police were still trying to locate the thousands of missing rainbow colored, fruit-flavored candy" -- a descriptor that was later removed.

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jivetalker Anonymous

Who doesn't know what Skittles are??? I mean, really.

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kirk

kirk Anonymous

Ms_ery:

In answer to your question, here's a hint:

In other words, Skittles is a brand that gives free rein to its agency's creative group, with sometimes-frightening results!

1 year, 4 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )

ms_ery Anonymous

Thanks for the commercial link, Kirk, and thank you, Teresa, for adding your thorough description of Skittles to the news item. I'm a better educated person now.

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Dylan Cave Verified

I just know it was MS13 (band bunch of baditos). You know they stole em' because they needed something better than Tylenol PM to mix with their heroin.

In the spirit of bad names, and the result of taking the drug; They'll call it Skidoodle.

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