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Teach51
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20 Jan 2021, 11:36 am

An attempt to make quick money and sue the shop methinks. I have a suspicious mind :lol:


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20 Jan 2021, 11:37 am

HeroOfHyrule wrote:
Are these those things that you throw onto the ground and they make a popping noise?
Larger-sized items that used to be sold in the States were called "Torpedoes".  They were filled with Potassium Chlorate and black powder, and would explode when thrown against a hard object like a wall ... a sidewalk ... or someone's head.  I think they were banned in the early 1960s, but I cannot seem to verify this.
HeroOfHyrule wrote:
How did she think those were candy when she looked at them.
How do kids mistake "Tide Pods" for candy?  Bright colors and similar packaging, I guess.


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20 Jan 2021, 12:22 pm

dragonsanddemons wrote:
I can see mistaking that box for popping candy, but if nothing else, I would think she would notice upon opening it that they look like wrappers with stuff inside and tried to unwrap one first, then seen that it is not candy.


I was thinking that because they do not work if they are unwrapped. They are not fireworks as they work more like caps one puts in cap guns. While I can imagine someone buying them by mistake if they have not brought their glasses with them, it puzzles me why she ate them without taking the paper off them? (I know they do not work without the paper. I am guessing that the paper holds them in the right position?)


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