ha ha stupid

[Stryker One]

Maybe the story will show up on The Tonight Show. Stupid criminals are one of Jay Leno's favorite things.

[crazylegs]

I like the fact that the stupid thief managed to slash his arm open while trying to steal something. However, I HATE those stupid plastic blister packs. Even when I've acquired the item legitimately, i STILL can't open the stupid pack without resorting to power tools!

Try this, might be a little safer...

[Jay 2K Winger]

Another tool that seems to work is an "iSlice" that I got from some friends a while back. The name is unfortunate, but it really works on those packages without any collateral damage.

I have one of those! It's also great for cutting off the plastic on DVDs/Blu-Rays/games, or as a letter opener.

[dbuzman]

Can openers work fairly decently also.

[ShadowBall]

I hate blister packs with a passion. About half the time, if I get the angle right, I can tear them off. Other times, it's a matter of me needing the sharpest fucking thing in the house to violently stab it with and hope I don't cut anything important.

I would usually use cuticle scissors to kind of open the thing biology-class-dissection-style and sometimes that worked until I found a bigger pointy thing.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

At the swamp, this would consist of watching a training DVD on bloodborn pathogens, that I know for a fact was produced at the flagship store about 10 years ago, because that's when I worked there and can identify a couple people pictured in the program.

Speaking of which, I'm supposed to take that training, because I haven't had it in a year and thus I've forgotten how to clean up bodily fluids without giving myself HIV or hepatitis. But management will come to me about that in good time.

We have a similar video we watch online once a year on safety that we have to renew once a year. And I'm sure mine is coming due pretty soon as well, as I just had to renew the stuff on Food Safety.

Like I don't know how to clean up blood without making myself sick? I simply call for a cleanup on something like that and warn the poor co-irker cleaning it up to make sure he/she's wearing gloves, geez.

[PepperElf]

Even when I've acquired the item legitimately, i STILL can't open the stupid pack without resorting to power tools!

try opening one of them in an airport, say... a couple of months after 9/11

the package was sold in the airport, but i couldn't find anything to open it with. i think i may have had to resort to jabbing it with my keys

[Rapscallion]

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/m...yster_ov_1.htm

I present, the Oyster Awards!

Rapscallion

[cinema guy]

Wow. The Dalek I got for Christmas was screwed to its packaging.

[dalesys]

Wow. The Dalek I got for Christmas was screwed to its packaging.

Well, duh!

Can't be 'Ex-term-in-ate'ing the casual passerby.