Mexicans Trick College Intern with Tricky Product Label
For our college intern, Dustin M. Corlington, it was just another weekend run to the grocery store. He’s starting his senior year at Cal State Fullerton and was happy to refill his apartment with food for himself and his roomies. But from one simple shopping trip, Dustin didn’t expect to end up in the local E/R and fighting for his life. Our friend was the victim of sneaky Mexican product labeling. This is his story and interview.
[pullquote_left]I was tricked by Mexicans, into drinking a cleaning product.[/pullquote_left] It was around midnight and my roommates and I were hungry. We just finished moving into our new digs, had a bare fridge and accounts fattened by a summer of hard work and loving parents. We made a Ralph’s run to do some grocery shopping.
I like running and always try to stay well hydrated with water, juices and electrolyte enriched drinks. My buddies and I were walking down the aisle when I saw this pretty good looking new drink. There was fruit all over the label and it was a good price. It was late, I was tired from moving all day and I threw the type that looked like blueberry coconut into my shopping cart. No biggie, it just went with everything else but was ‘Hecho en Mexico’. We took a picture of the new drink for an unrelated project on imported foodstuffs and pricing, but I had no idea the image would become so popular and show how Mexican products can trick us innocent college kids who’d never drink something so unknown and dangerous.
I didn’t even think twice before throwing the drink in with some whey protein and my 32 oz before going in for my Monday internship at ChristWire. I was halfway through before I noticed everything was tasting soapy and I didn’t feel good. I threw up, passed out and awoke with some of our deacons praying for me in the hospital.
Doctors expect me out tomorrow. I just want to let the Mexicans know that even though they are trying to trick us into drinking their dangerous products by making them look all delicious, I forgive you of your sins. I’m not sure if this is a plot to get us back for the Alamo or make Americans sick so we lose our jobs in the local market, but whatever the case you’re forgiven and I turn the other cheek. I’ll be well soon.
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Author: Amber Vos Savant
Amber Vos Savant is an award winning conservative journalist and currently serves as Young Republican coordinator for Romney 2012 in Boston.
1:24 pm
God bless you Dustin. We are all praying for your recovery. I know the mexicans are killing our kids by getting them hooked on maryjuana. This is probably so they can take our country over. Now I guess they are targeting people that eat and drink healthy foods. Be vigilant my friend.
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1:26 pm
One of them clearly says Bleach…Shouldn’t that be a big hint to not drink it?
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2:16 pm
Only one of the packages say bleach.
The others have fruits, rainbows and what I assume is Spanish for “fabulous”.
Those crafty Mexicans are trying to poison us.
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2:19 pm
All of them say “cleaner” at the bottom…These are cleaners and anyone who mistakes them for a drink deserves to be poisoned…
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11:13 am
and are probably in the cleaner isle next to other cleaning supplies. and are packaged the same way a cleaner is packaged, and doesn’t have a nutrition facts, or a plastic ring all beverage bottles have.
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4:46 pm
“Only one of the packages say bleach.”
Ah, but they ALL say that they contain baking soda. Who buys a fruit drink with baking soda in it? They also say “fragrance”. Perfume in a drink? Perhaps there is a lesson to be learned here. If you don’t understand the label……….ask.
“Those crafty Mexicans are trying to poison us.”
That’s just crazy talk, Cartoon. I highly doubt that those “cleaners” were in the same section as the drinks.
Mr. Corlington admitted to being tired and that it was late. He needs to just accept that he made a stupid mistake and stop trying to place the blame elsewhere.
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7:20 pm
Dollar stores are so small burger flipper that cleaning supplies and juice tend to be close together.
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7:43 pm
We have this stuff at the King Soopers I work at…It’s on the cleaning aisle…which is nowhere near the juice…
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9:07 pm
Apparently you weren’t paying attention when I said that my family owns a gas station/convenience store, Cartoon. The cleaning products are NEVER with or near the food. That’s the law. They have to be at least in another aisle. Even as an end-cap they would be at the end of a non-food aisle.
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11:26 pm
“Apparently you weren’t paying attention when I said that my family owns a gas station/convenience store”
Actually this is the first time you brought this to my attention. Do you actually expect me to read every comment you post Burger Flipper? I mean I’m somewhat flattered if you do that to me, but I just don’t have the free time to reciprocate that.
Also I don’t know what commie hell hole you live in that dictates how business owners should run their business, but dollar store Mexicans clearly don’t abide by them.
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9:31 am
“Actually this is the first time you brought this to my attention.”
Never said it was said TO you. You were in on the conversation with Professor Gelding though.
“Do you actually expect me to read every comment you post Burger Flipper?”
No, but I DO expect that you will. You just can’t resist looking for grammatical mistakes.
“Also I don’t know what commie hell hole you live in…”
You know exactly where I live. In fact you apologized for your “tongue in cheek” comments about it.
“…that dictates how business owners should run their business…”
It’s called America, Cartoon. It’s about public safety and business integrity. The way you make it sound, any business owner who chooses to gouge prices in an emergency situation, therefore taking advantage of his customers and increasing his profit, is perfectly within his rights….as the owner. Yeeaahh…doesn’t work like that.
“…but dollar store Mexicans clearly don’t abide by them.”
You know this…how? If their store is within the borders of our nation, they fall under the same laws as everyone else. If they choose not to abide by them, they are punished just like everyone else. Somehow I’m not seeing them putting themselves in a position to KEEP paying the penalties.
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11:04 am
““Also I don’t know what commie hell hole you live in…”
You know exactly where I live. In fact you apologized for your “tongue in cheek” comments about it.”
Well, after going back and looking, it would seem that I owe YOU an apology, Cartoon. It was Professor Gelding that did that. Seems all the constant correcting you two do has finally managed to blend you together. Sorry for the “profiling”.
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11:37 pm
I accept your apology, we all make mistakes. After all we’re only human.
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9:40 am
Thank you.
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7:47 pm
Most christains are home school remember so they can’t read well i mean they never read the bible they always keep talking about.
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1:56 pm
We are praying for you, Dustin! If you want a check-up sometime down the road, come visit my E/R and I’ll make sure you’re looking good and healthy after all this.
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3:39 pm
A cardboard box with a flashlight and some holes on the side is not an Emergency Room, ‘doc’.
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3:43 pm
So basically, what you’re saying is, some retard drank cleaner, can’t be damned to read or second guess someone, and then you photoshop someone else’s face over another person’s just to make it seem like they were taken to the ER.
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7:58 pm
“…some retard drank cleaner…”
Claire? Is that you?
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3:58 pm
This is a joke right? Never mind the fact an adult was stupid enough to drink bleach thats labeled bleach but you are calling all Mexicans sinners and are all out to “get dem Americans”
Obviously a piss take or are you guys in the States really right wing Christian retards…. I hope the former but if not pick up a book (other than the bible) and some other newspaper than your usual right wing rag and educate yourselves…..
But best keep an eye on dem Muslims, they’re definitely out to get you :p
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4:35 pm
hahahahahaha retard! ♫ fabuloso… todo queda, mas fragante y oloroso ♫
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7:51 pm
But Adam Nelson just said your intern in named Matt Corington so who is it?
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7:58 pm
“But Adam Nelson just said your intern in named Matt Corington so who is it?”
Huh. Seems KBLME is quite correct. Soooo, were they brothers? Must have been if TWO of them drank the same cleaner. It seems Ms. Amber and the Doc were on two different pages…..at the same time.
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8:05 pm
You guys might want to grab a screen shot of that before they edit it. Adam the Quack is notorious for that kind of shit.
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9:02 pm
Don’t worry, I gots screenshots of both articles…Just in case
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1:56 am
they seem to be more about changing my comments but ya i a SS wont hurt.
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8:14 pm
So two intelligent christian men get poisoned in one day yet you skeptics still won’t believe it was intentional? You are dumb as well as evil
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8:22 pm
Now the ass covering begins…Adam and Amber slipped up and have been outed as liars…Nothing you say at this point can convince us otherwise…Of course, you’re. It very good at convincing anyway…
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8:25 pm
Gah…I meant “you’re NOT very good at convincing anyway”
Damn phone keyboard…
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8:26 pm
“So two intelligent christian men get poisoned in one day…”
Yes and it seems a few intelligent readers got wise to the “typo”. Nice try, Mr. Peterson. Those two “mistakes” alone just helped to negate BOTH stories.
(Attention to details and the Editor’s approval might have kept that from happening. Unfortunately….it didn’t.)
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8:27 pm
No, we’re saying that the story is a piece of shit, considering there’s a damn mop on the front of the label and another has the word ‘Bleach’ right under the name, and it’s found in the cleaning isle. Only a complete retard would mistake it for soda or juice or whatever, and the fact that two different people, who have the exact same last name, and both intern at the same site, yet are mentioned in two different stories, is further proof that these fuckers are lying and are racist.
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8:58 pm
“Only a complete retard would mistake it for soda or juice or whatever…”
Now come on, L.N. Give them a little credit. At least they can remember what they’re taught. Well, better than THAT.
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9:01 pm
Hmmmm flower flavour soda…..
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11:48 pm
The drink that says 40% more is clearly the same size as the others. And I accidentally drink this stuff all the time. It is awful. Fortunately my Aryan liver can handle most anything liquid.
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9:11 am
“And I accidentally drink this stuff all the time.”
Now see, most people who would be stupid enough to be fooled TWICE wouldn’t be stupid enough to admit it. It doesn’t exactly help the argument any. Need new spectacles maybe, Mr. Weisz?
“It is awful.”
I’m sure it is and yet…
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12:28 pm
Our livers were made like that by the hand of our creator, brother. He knew that we would have to do things like hard work and take care of all the lesser creatures of the Earth. Thus, we would need to have some merry nectar to keep calm and cool.
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12:33 am
The utter outpouring of Christian love toward Dustin was very heart-warming for me. It brightened my day until the leftist haters and their continued support of thugs brought me snapping back to the realization that there is a segment of the population that is cruel and blames the victims first.
What is it that makes people blame victims of crime? The far left has a long history of it. They blamed Obama’s mess on George W Bush; they blamed Wantida Broaderick for getting raped by Clinton; and they blamed Reagan for getting Marines killed.
Just how do people that think like that sleep at night? Of course that’s a rhetorical question because Christians know that Satan’s deceptions cause fools to believe all kinds of wild, outlandish things.
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1:58 am
what about matt? must not have worked as hard so you care not at all for him you heartless heathen.
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1:48 pm
Your own fault if you’re stupid and don’t know to read….
But i think we all know this didn’t happen to you. Besides, no need to make 2 articles about that and use the same picture in both of it.
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