I have so many questions about this. Actually, just one come to think of it: how did this happen.
So many sets of eyeballs must have gone over this, presumably those eyeballs were attached to normal, healthy human brains, and yet, here you are, reading an article about how Kmart was selling quirky drinking vessels that bear something of a similarity to a makeshift meth pipe. And by something of a similarity, I mean it pretty much is one.
They’ve since removed the listing from their site but luckily the internet captured it for posterity:
Drug paraphernalia concerns aside, this is just a dumbass drink container, enjoying having your drinks topple over constantly you lightbulb loving weirdo. It’s a terribly inefficient shape for volume as well, it turns out we’ve been making cups cup-shaped for 10,000 years for a pretty good reason. Ridiculous.
Complains about the product were started by Lina Pugh from Bunbury, WA, whose son is a former ice addict:
“Thousands and thousands of families in regional WA are being torn apart because of meth use. It is absolutely appalling that they are trying to make money out of something that is destroying lives.“If it is just a way to be trendy then it’s completely inappropriate. People are dying. And to me that product is a direct reference to a meth-smoking device.”
I’m just spitballing, but a direct reference to drug addiction would be way, way too edgy for Kmart’s brand of affordable blandless (don’t get me wrong, I bloody love Kmart), but it’s still an absolutely absurd oversight that an entire chain of people looked at these and said “Yes, this is good.”
Kmart has said the item has been taken off the website and will no longer be available for sale.
Obviously, while this is hilarious, addiction is not. If you feel like you might not be in control, there is free 24/7 drug and alcohol counselling available wherever you are in the country.
Source: The Age.
Photo: Twitter / @Human_Z0O.
