Dumpster filled with fortune cookies

Hal says:

Somebody has some karma to burn. My roommate Megan and I were driving around Downtown LA yesterday looking for photos and video we could shoot and sell as stock photography when we drove down a dead-end alley and found three huge dumpsters filled to the top with fortune cookies -- some of them still sealed in plastic. Here's a link to a Flickr set with photos of this scandal.

Link

[#1 posted by Anonymous , September 3, 2007 11:46 AM]

They're in Spanish?

[#2 posted by Flying Squid , September 3, 2007 11:54 AM]

You shall find fortune in abundance.

Lucky numbers: 12 35 7 9

[#3 posted by Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz , September 3, 2007 11:55 AM]

You will find a fortune.

[#4 posted by Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz , September 3, 2007 11:56 AM]

Gah, Squid beat me to it, and he did it better.

-whuffie

[#5 posted by JPW , September 3, 2007 12:05 PM]

C'mon, guys--how could you have missed the obvious title for this one? . . .

"SOMEBODY TOSSED THEIR COOKIES"

[#6 posted by Anonymous , September 3, 2007 12:08 PM]

Your fortune: Godly Luck

[#7 posted by Radio Tirana , September 3, 2007 12:18 PM]

Somebody discovered this contraption, the Magic 8-Ball, then decided to vacate their long-lost room of the fortune cookies.

It's like these people of yesteryear who took 100s of CDs with them, anywhere they went. Times change for the best.

[#8 posted by Anonymous , September 3, 2007 1:44 PM]

I once ordered a case of fortune cookies for an event. Despite being individually sealed, the leftovers went inedibly stale after only a few weeks.

[#9 posted by Anonymous , September 3, 2007 3:29 PM]

Friend of mine lived out in BC for a while. He told me about going to the Yves Veggie Cuisine factory to savage the food that was thrown out. All their products are vacuum sealed but they throw out all the food that is sealed in the wrong shape. Perfectly edible food and still vacuum sealed.

Another friend of mine knows of this place where they film commercials for supermarkets and drug stores. The companies send out whole bags of chips and candy for the filming. After the filming is done and the crew picks out what they want, the rest is thrown out. We call it "trash snack day" when my friend brings the stuff that's thrown out. The best before date on some of the chips might be a few days off, but they're still good to eat.

[#10 posted by Anonymous , September 3, 2007 6:17 PM]

Same thing happened in New York (Long Island City to be exact) a few months ago:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/franklynch/867595376/

[#11 posted by Anonymous , September 3, 2007 8:18 PM]

Perhaps the
WHEAT GLUTEN = POISONED!!!

Just a thought...

[#12 posted by kjs3 , September 3, 2007 8:39 PM]

What precisely is the point of this? With exactly zero context, how do you know the owner the bakery that was so helpfully exposed (not that anyone would use that information for evil, of course) didn't throw these out because the flour was mixed with rat poison, the eggs had salmonella or the damn things were past the expiry date and the baker was required by law not to sell them? Helluva witchunt, thepyrokinetic.

[#13 posted by Anonymous , September 3, 2007 9:58 PM]

i could savage an yves veggie wiener, myself, just now...

altgrave

[#14 posted by iRoy , September 4, 2007 2:11 AM]

You found the store of the evil fortune cookies.
(See for karma to work there must be good and evil fortune cookies, but obviously no one wants to hand you an evil fortune cookie even if you are a really bad tipper as karma comes back to bite your waiter in the ass.)

Now step away from the dumpster of pure evil fortune....

[#15 posted by Tian , September 4, 2007 10:22 AM]

Perhaps the reason these cookies are dumped is because they were stuffed with misprinted fortune notes, as I have documented here:

http://www.hanzismatter.com/2005/09/bad-fortune.html

[#16 posted by glycolized , February 28, 2008 2:40 PM]

I wonder what it would be like to do a stuntman fall into a dumpster full of fortune cookies? You know, maybe 10-15 feet off the ground. I bet it would be a decent cushion.