Someone's been playing too much Fallout 3.

That was mighty nice of them. Their hearts are in the right place.

Whereby the scum sucking pigs that start rumors like this are going to be reincarnated as urinal cakes ;)

Bottle caps for chemo? What kind of gullible fool would fall for something so preposterous?

Now, soda can pull tabs for dialysis... that makes sense. All in!

Did they redistribute them to ensure that everyone has only one?

Because someone's gonna double back and get a second.



\shouldn't be obscure

Joelogon: Bottle caps for chemo? What kind of gullible fool would fall for something so preposterous?

Now, soda can pull tabs for dialysis... that makes sense. All in!

I have people who I wouldn't think were dumb enough for fall for shiat like that bring up the "one pull tab for one minute of dialysis" crap every now and then. It just won't die.

Anyone familiar with taking the metal foil out of packs of cigs, removing the paper on the one side, and collecting the metal into a big ball?

apparently that was for wheelchairs.


Yep,they build ENTIRE wheelchairs out of cigarette foil

Collecting bottle caps? Laurie approves:

Idiots! They should have done something more constructive, like going through ball pits looking for hypodermic needles. Think of the children!

There are enough people reading Fark that if we bought those bottle caps from them for a quarter apiece, we probably could pay for someone's chemo.

Coca Cola, probably other companies too, have code numbers in the caps. You collect points for them, redeemable for prizes. I don't, however, recall seeing chemo offered as a prize.

I suppose a soda company could let people donate their points to charity, but they'd have to set it up first.

jake_lex: Joelogon: Bottle caps for chemo? What kind of gullible fool would fall for something so preposterous?

Now, soda can pull tabs for dialysis... that makes sense. All in!

I have people who I wouldn't think were dumb enough for fall for shiat like that bring up the "one pull tab for one minute of dialysis" crap every now and then. It just won't die.

What exactly IS the purpose of that? I mean, just let the poor kid have his/her dialysis...don't dangle the machine at 'em like a juicy carrot at a horse!

/Heartless bastids.

Sgt Otter: Someone's been playing too much Fallout 3.

Came here for Fallout 3 references.

Leaving satisfied.

Sgt Otter: Someone's been playing too much Fallout 3.

I'll have you know that I purchased a fine set of combat armor for a reasonable sum of caps, sir. You'll thank me when the raiders come into town. You'll thank me.

Are we talking the standard metal press on bottle caps?

Because if we are, I could probably fund a cure for cancer with what's tossed on and around my desk right now.

/hopeless drunk

That was like that weird rumor about your schvance getting three inches longer if you sponsor Lord Snoopy's G.P.E.H. for TotalFark.

Juniper Jupiter:
What exactly IS the purpose of that? I mean, just let the poor kid have his/her dialysis...don't dangle the machine at 'em like a juicy carrot at a horse!

/Heartless bastids.

What Nerve! [^]

I guess some people have never heard that they cannot redeem pull tabs for time on a dialysis machine. At my current job & at Harry & David someone always has a donation container for the pull tabs. It doesn't seem to do any good to tell them that the pull tabs do nothing because they don't want to believe they're wasting their time.

Also came for the Fallout 3 reference, also leaving happy.


/I am over encumbered with happiness

Fallout Boy approves

If you get enough bottle caps, you can recycle them and make enough money to pay for ... anything, really. It's money. They're garbage.
If the people would have just said "I'm collecting cans and bottle caps." they would still be getting them. Maybe less, but the longer time line adds up to more $$$.

HappyHarryHardOn: Anyone familiar with taking the metal foil out of packs of cigs, removing the paper on the one side, and collecting the metal into a big ball?

apparently that was for wheelchairs.

Yep,they build ENTIRE wheelchairs out of cigarette foil

"It's hard to find good silver foil since Lucky Strike went to war."

/obscure?

Came to make the requisite Fallout 3 reference, leaving unsatisfied because Sgt Otter had to half-ass it in the boobies.

the_sidewinder: Fallout Boy approves

That's the Vault Dweller.

It isn't funny when you extract fun from some aspect of one of the few truly good things about human nature. Idiots, collecting bottle caps. But those are better people than the jaded bastards I am around in NYC who make it their business to use their intelligence to collectively rip the world off.

/didn't read the article
//just hate jokes that make fun of people for doing good things like helping a random stranger, or other poor-taste jackass style jokes and anything resembling it
//HAHA I GUESS THERE WAS NO BABY IN THE CARRIAGE I JUST FREAKED OUT TRYING TO STOP!!!HAHAHAHAHA or HAHAHA THAT GUY WASN'T REALLY INJURED WHEN HE FELL OFF THE STRETCHER HAHAHA

I thought bottle caps were legal tender in West Virgina.

/Auntie-Grandma told me

Having grown up in the backwoods of WV part of my life, having relatives there (read: if you live in WV, I am related to you), and owning what is now a vacation home there, I can honestly say that this does not surprise me.

/comma abuse
//slashie abuse

doglover

If you get enough bottle caps, you can recycle them and make enough money to pay for ... anything, really.

Which raises the question:

How many pounds of bottlecaps would you have to recycle to pay for someone's chemo?

Angry people with bottlecaps = bottlecap mines.

I'm gonna hide in my Pulowski Preservation Shelter.

I'm a needy cancer patient and so I'm getting a kick out of these replies...

/ya, unfortunately =(

At my job, the secretary is all crazy about collecting those pull tabs. She has not understood, however, the purpose of those blue recycling boxes. Go figure.

Sgt Otter: Someone's been playing too much Fallout 3.

Came here to say this.

Elendili: It isn't funny when you extract fun from some aspect of one of the few truly good things about human nature. Idiots, collecting bottle caps. But those are better people than the jaded bastards I am around in NYC who make it their business to use their intelligence to collectively rip the world off.

/didn't read the article
//just hate jokes that make fun of people for doing good things like helping a random stranger, or other poor-taste jackass style jokes and anything resembling it
//HAHA I GUESS THERE WAS NO BABY IN THE CARRIAGE I JUST FREAKED OUT TRYING TO STOP!!!HAHAHAHAHA or HAHAHA THAT GUY WASN'T REALLY INJURED WHEN HE FELL OFF THE STRETCHER HAHAHA

You said it best.

Bathia_Mapes: I guess some people have never heard that they cannot redeem pull tabs for time on a dialysis machine. At my current job & at Harry & David someone always has a donation container for the pull tabs. It doesn't seem to do any good to tell them that the pull tabs do nothing because they don't want to believe they're wasting their time.

Ronald McDonald House DOES have officially printed boxes that hold like an ounce of tabs. Purportedly "To Help Ronald McDonald House". Which is odd, because apparently RMDH is giving money to itself here.

Thing is, it's like 1200+ tabs to make a pound which returns like $0.50. They can't MAIL the package for that. In fact, they had to print the package and mail them out so probably like $5 per box, given the administrative costs and all but limited circulation.

You're helping RMDH by costing them maybe $8 to make yourself feel like you're helping, and they get $0.10 per load which frankly is worth neither the trip to the recycler nor even the office space to store them for months until a huge load is gathered.

In short, when you fill those little boxes, you took a lot of money from RMDH's needy kids to pay for corporate advertising.

geetus: doglover

If you get enough bottle caps, you can recycle them and make enough money to pay for ... anything, really.

Which raises the question:

How many pounds of bottlecaps would you have to recycle to pay for someone's chemo?

pounds? bwa ha ha ha. Think bigger.
If you're trying to pay for anything with your own recycled drink containers, you're better off drinking enough to forget you can't afford it.

Approves.

/link it like it's hot.

This happened again? How many communities are going to fall for this?

or is this Old News?

Gulper Eel: Collecting bottle caps? Laurie approves:

I'd pop that tab.

kmmontandon: Did they redistribute them to ensure that everyone has only one?

Because someone's gonna double back and get a second.



\shouldn't be obscure

Oh, man! DuckTales!

Actually, given that I'm in West Virginia now, this doesn't surprise me for two seconds. You meet the friendliest, most well-meaning and dumbest people here, bless their inbred hearts. I could tell you such stories, from the folks who heard my Grandma had been diagnosed with diabetes and baked her cupcakes, to the people who saw us changing a tire mid-Interstate and asked if we'd like a beer 'cause it was hot, to the sweet older guy who admired our fixed-up '80s Honda and asked whether learning Japanese to read the manual was hard. (I actually do speak some Japanese, so we messed with his head a bit before showing him the Haynes manual in English.) Almost everyone here treats strangers like relatives they just haven't met, and the whole state has this air of a beer-filled, food-packed family reunion picnic. The attitude is like "If'n we don't know y'all, we will in a minnit, so let's have a Bud and git-r-done!"

My fiance and I are the demented hybrid of green-energy hippies and college-educated yuppies. It is to our continuing amazement that our neighbors like us despite the fact that we showed up without a single trucker hat or Confederate flag to our name. (We were almost immediately provided with said items.) In fact, we have even begun to blend in a little bit. My industrial engineer turned his technical know-how into a fine little side business by helping local guys turn old fridges into kegerators, and my yuppie-tacular Internet skills and fondness for Girl Scout-y crafts keep me in great demand among the Appalachian ladies, who have begun raking in some impressive dough with Etsy and eBay. He's learned to drink, spit and eat pepperoni rolls (a horrifying foodlike Mountain State delicacy designed by Italian immigrant miner's wives,) and I've learned to quilt, play bluegrass mandolin and put extra pockets in Carhartt pants. We even figured out how to tolerate NASCAR.

The contracts are up this summer and we'll be moving back to civilization then. Strangely, I'm not sure I want to leave.

Only took one post for the Fallout reference... nice

Would like those pull-tabs, please.

Because just 75,000 of your pull-tabs are needed to compose a cube 0.5 meters per side which, when combined with other donations, may be stacked neatly in a pile of cubes 0.5 meters on a side.

How many bottle caps for a G.E.C.K.?

I could tell you such stories, from the folks who heard my Grandma had been diagnosed with diabetes and baked her cupcakes....

I laughed out loud at this one.

Actually, several years ago, I worked for a company that was energetically collecting pull-tops from soda cans in order to win a free heart lung machine for some unidentified cancer patient. When I informed the VP of Human Resources that this was a hoax and there was no such program, he replied, "Oh, well, it's not hurting anything." And they continued to proundly pile up bags and bags of pull-tops in their cafeteria. Which were quietly thrown away a few months later.

Grunhilde Gonzalez: At my job, the secretary is all crazy about collecting those pull tabs. She has not understood, however, the purpose of those blue recycling boxes. Go figure.

Explain to her what I said above.
Every time you use those boxes, you take money AWAY from the charity's needy kids to pay for this promotional campaign.

Rest assured, somewhere, some kid or needy person has been told "sorry, the charity's at capacity" because ACTUAL funds for the needy were diverted to this stupid promotional campaign that didn't bring in a dime.

This type of rumor has been around for at least 15 years. I rem one from 1993 that went around our office, and the secretaries all pitched in to collect whatever it was that time. Same deal: it was a fake.

I gots some left over from Halloween... want 'em?

Its_A_Tarp: Sgt Otter: Someone's been playing too much Fallout 3.

Came here for Fallout 3 references.

Leaving satisfied.

Came here to leave satisfied with a Fallout 3 reference.

Not sure what step 2 is now.

Lord Snoopy's G.P.E.H.: schvance

Schwanz (pops)

/sorry

In the last 3 weeks I've had this conversation with a friend, who listened, and a relative, who refused to.

/.500 ain't bad.
//Matches my CPR score

Ronald McDonald House pop-tab collections (^)

/There's actually a similar legitimate effort. Not caps for chemo, but close