agnol:

Okay so I want to talk about this.

I was at work the other night, going through a booger cart (a cart of stuff that was found in the wrong place in the store), when I came across this

My first thought was “hey, they made a Spider-Girl action figure! That’s pretty cool!” And then I looked closer, and realized that no, the packaging still said “Spider-Man” on it. So I looked closer.

This is a Barbie that someone painted to look like Spider-Man. The head isn’t the original Barbie head, though — it’s made of wood and replaces the original head, which would have been the wrong shape. They then took this, new, dummy Spider-Man, grabbed the box for the actual Spider-Man toy off the shelf, and swapped them out. As my friend (who took the picture since he was off the clock when I found this) put it: They Indiana Jones’d us.

Now, just as a frame of reference here: the stolen Spider-Man was an Ultimate Spider-Man action figure from the Titan Heroes line. Where I work, they retail at $7.88, but they range between that and about twelve bucks, depending on where you buy it from. The Spider-Barbie? Well, the doll alone is in the same price range, not to mention the cost of paint, the materials to make the new head, etc. Even if the shoplifter had all that stuff already (which is possible), the amount of time that went into that wasn’t insignificant. Honestly, buying it would probably have been easier and cheaper.

I mean, there’s shoplifting, then there’s this. I mean, honestly, this is just impressive. Whoever did this, hats off to you. You deserve the Spider-Man action figure.

You left us with the cooler one anyway.

It’s nice to know there’s someone who understands it’s not about getting or gaining, but just having fun when it comes to stealing.