Tuesday, February 22, 2005

When Chocolate is Outlawed, Only Outlaws, etc...

From our pal James Taranto at the WSJ's Best of the Web, this from deep in the heart of Texas, where a plan to remove candy from vending machines at Austin high schools has gone horribly awry:
The candy removal plan, according to students at Austin High, was thwarted by classmates who created an underground candy market, turning the hallways of the high school into Willy-Wonka-meets-Casablanca.

Soon after candy was removed from vending machines, enterprising students armed with gym bags full of M&M's, Skittles, Snickers and Twix became roving vendors, serving classmates in need of an in-school sugar fix. Regular-size candy bars like the ones sold in vending machines routinely sold in the halls for $1.50.

"There was no sugar in the vending machines, so (student vendors) could make a lot of money," said Hayden Starkey, an Austin High junior who said he was not one of the candy sellers. "I heard kids were making $200 a week just selling candy."
The school board is relenting, which will, I suspect, allow the kids to get back to their "day job" of selling marijuana!

5 comments:

gal artist said...

Resourceful little entreprenuers.

Did I spell that right?

Anonymous said...

That reminds of when I got a 3 day suspension in Jr High for selling blowpops (gum was banned at school). I made a bunch of money until I got caught.

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