<p>The University of Texas has been plagued in the last week by a Tampax bandit. The thief breaks open vending machines in restrooms and steals the money and the feminine hygiene products inside. I have been following the UT police daily email update - four or five vending machines have been struck thus far. At a college this big, there must be a CSI-type class somewhere, don’t you think? A squad of investigators needs to get on the case and start searching for trace evidence.</p>
<p>We had one of those in our house in middle school, every time one girl came over, the boxes in the bathroom were empty, I figured she needed them, so never said anything, but we did not keep too much back up stock in the kids bathroom ;)</p>
<p>mm2k–I hereby present you the “Best Thread Title of the Day Award”!</p>
<p>And I though being arrested in a toilet was bad - being arrested for being a ‘Tampax bandit’ would be pretty bad. If I ever decide on a life of crime it will be one where my arrest would not generate headlines including toilets or feminine hygiene products.</p>
<p>I thought this was going to be about daughters " borrowing" supplies.
Neither one of my kids ever told me when they started their period- with younger D, I at least had given her a box to have on hand * in case* but with older D, she just started " borrowing" knowing that I really didn’t pay attention to how many were left.
Of course when we started coordinated cycles , keeping a secret was blown out of the water.</p>
<p>somemom - I read your post several times before I realized you didn’t mean you had a tampax vending machine in your house. I was gonna ask if it were a profitable venture.</p>
<p>Ack, Cartera, and now it is too late to edit- we had a Tampax Bandit, not a vending machine. Poor little girl needs to swipe tampax, what can you do, I sure was not going to confront her!</p>
<p>And I thought you were talking about our dog…</p>
<p>somemom - in this economy, we might have to reconsider the vending machine idea. There are only a few things that people will pay an unlimited amount of money for and that might be one. Personally, I’m trying to get the license for a Viagra vending machine.</p>
<p>At UT it’s a thief. At some other schools it would be some womyn’s movement against the man…</p>
<p>I do sympathize with everyone who has daughter’s raid the family supply. I remember doing the same. I bought extra boxes and just kept them on hand even when I was at the “skipping” age. One less thing to have to worry about for a busy kid.</p>
<p>At one point we gave our three teen DDs their own budget for their own toiletries- trying to teach the value of Suave vs salon shampoo, etc. That involved a whole new level of Tampax bandit as the broke one would steal from the sisters! :D</p>
<p>Yeah, and speaking of someting you will pay an unlimited amount of money for it has always seemed to me that they were a total rip off.
Definitely agree with thread title of the day!</p>
<p>Thanks for the laugh. This is why I belong to CC. Yes, great title.</p>
<p>Great title, indeed! I thought it was about bank robbers wearing Costco-sized empty Tampax boxes on their heads to hide their faces, you know, like those “Thong bandits”! LOL!</p>
<p>Reminds me of years ago when our state decided to tax some previously untaxed items, along the lines of needed/wanted items as I recall- most food is still untaxed, although things like candy are, but paper goods (including books) were taxed- I was thinking- how can they tax necessities?? Had to be a bunch of men who decided…</p>
<p>Martharap, all kinds of nasty images just whirled through my head…</p>
<p>I have the most cringe-inducing canine Tampax bandit story ever…but I will spare you all.</p>
<p>I’ve seen several intimate, embarrassing things that had been swiped out of the garbage by a dog. </p>
<p>Talk about cringe-worthy.</p>
<p>Kind of a different story - when we lived in a country in the middle east the sale of tampons was banned (apparently someone - presumably male - thought using tampons would bring some sort of pleasure to the user - not my personal experience but whatever :rolleyes:) . So we expats used to bring our own. One friend was going through customs and a particularly obnoxious customs official (every country has at least one) pulled some tampons out of a box and was dangling them by the strings and asking “what are these - cigarettes?”. She so wanted to say “stick it in your mouth and light it and see”.</p>
<p>A friend told me this story. Her young cousin (a boy, age 7) found his mom’s tampax in the bathroom and asked her what they were for. She told him they were air fresheners. He read something on the label about how they expanded when wet. Later on, his mom came into the bathroom and found several wet tampax hanging up around the room! He told her he was just hanging up the air fresheners!</p>