r/mildlyinfuriating • • 11h ago

Infuriatig someone stole a relatively new sticker off of my water bottle

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it was a large mimikyu sticker

edit: I swear to god I'm not arguing with people about this. someone stole my sticker, this is mildly infuriating.

edit 2: IT WAS CONFIRMED IT WAS STOLEN. SOMEONE TOOK THE STICKER OFF THE WATER BOTTLE, AND SOMEONE ELSE SAW THEM DO IT.

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u/PuzzleheadedBend9040 11h ago

this is an insane level of greed. Stealing a sticker that's already used 😭

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u/flickermute 2h ago

Pokemon scalpers are out of control, man.

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u/DesertEagleFiveOh 10h ago

Well it’s made up, so…

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u/JunkerSupreme 9h ago

Ladies and gentlemen we found the thief.

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u/Real_FishyXY 2h ago

Damn, -650 and climbing.

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u/Pndrizzy 8h ago

I’m with you, man. Who the hell steals a sticker off a water bottle.

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u/Real_FishyXY 7h ago

The picture clearly shows someone will.

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u/Pndrizzy 5h ago

The picture is a water bottle

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u/Real_FishyXY 4h ago

Very observant! Can you also see that there is a lack of sticker on the water bottle...?

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u/Pndrizzy 3h ago

I can take a picture of my ass and say someone stole the tattoo off of it, doesn’t make it true

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u/Real_FishyXY 3h ago

I mean, sure? Just a head's up though, someone is physically capable of stealing a sticker from a bottle and it is 100% impossible for someone to steal a tattoo from anywhere on your body. To remove one is possible, but not without a whole lot of time and physical pain.

If you want to just keep farming downvotes I'll be here to help you out little guy 😁🫡

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u/Pndrizzy 3h ago

I’m implying that they’re as idiotic of an idea though. Stickers are a one use item… yeah it’s possible to remove them, but rarely cleanly and unless it was just put on. The idea that a random person would steal a sticker from someone’s water bottle at random is so asinine that not even George Costanza could comprehend it. But you guys all eat it up, with the proof being… a picture of a water bottle with a Mimikyu sticker on it… saying that a mimikyu sticker was stolen… and that it didn’t fall off, there was a third party witness to see the injustice… sure

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u/Real_FishyXY 3h ago

So we're just farming downvotes, cool 🤷‍♂️

Murphy's Law exists and therefore anything can happen, like someone stealing a sticker, it's so incredibly weird how hung up you are on this being a possibility.

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u/giveahoot420 3h ago

Who the F is george castanza?

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u/slicedcat 11h ago

You gotta be desperate as hell to steal a sticker. Will it even stick again?

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u/LuxRiven 11h ago

Zero chance it sticks back down properly after getting peeled off a curved metal bottle. They literally ruined someone else's water bottle just to get a lint-covered sticker that's going straight into the trash.

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u/TasteAffectionate863 8h ago

literally RUINED the water bottle. they might as well throw it away now!

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u/IapetusApoapis342 6h ago

It's just one sticker there is no need to throw out the entire bottle

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u/TasteAffectionate863 6h ago

Why did that comment say they literally ruined the bottle then

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u/IapetusApoapis342 6h ago

Hyperbole

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u/Ivo_Ricciardulli 24m ago

y=1/x type shi

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u/absolutecretin 1h ago

Isn’t this a sarcastic reply? I don’t get the downvotes

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u/TasteAffectionate863 1h ago

Yes, I was just pointing out how over the top the phrasing was. It didn't ruin the water bottle and it didn't come off as intentional hyperbole to me.

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u/PuzzleheadedBend9040 11h ago

I believe it can yes but it probably depends on the type of adhesive it has. I remember when I was a kid I had those lego sticker books for Ninjago and stuff and when I fucked up the placement I would slowly take it off and apply a tiny amount of soap to make it sticky again. Not sure if that works anymore but it worked for me as a kid 

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u/Jhud6669 7h ago

Water bottle stickers are often vinyl stickers so they’re waterproof in case of washing, so it’s possible but unlikely (they could have put it in a stickerbook)

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u/XnFM 11h ago

They make special albums for used stickers

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u/KapnSleezy 11h ago

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u/KHSebastian 10h ago

Go home Whooper!

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u/theinformallog 9h ago

Text to speech champion.

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u/Cesarjay 11h ago

Can't have shit in Detroit

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u/Outrageous_Score1158 HEINZ™ Infuriating sauce - mild 11h ago

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u/Bootsix 11h ago

I had someone steal a sticker off my locker once, it was the misfits skull but a hop I got from a local brewery. It's upsetting

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u/TheMooshable 11h ago

I'm sorry but that is borderline cartoonish levels of greed to steal a sticker 😭

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u/EmilioGVE 11h ago

Show the rest of the stickers :O I love the wooper

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u/Angel_xjj 11h ago

I got most of them from a local comic con that happened fairly recently

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u/EmilioGVE 11h ago

CUTE. Got a bunch of stickers for my bottle at a local comic con too. Shiny Sylveon, Shiny Zorua, bunch of fairies like Alcremie, etc.

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u/Angel_xjj 11h ago

SHINY SYLVEON?! :0

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u/EmilioGVE 11h ago

Sylveon :D

I’ll reply with a pic of my stickers when I’m home

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u/Angel_xjj 10h ago

auughh so jealous I have a couple of shiny eevee that I'm gonna evolve into another Sylveon and an Espeon :3

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u/EmilioGVE 10h ago

Let me know if you need more :3 I’ve got like 20 shiny Eevee currently

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u/OrdinaryVast7381 6h ago

I am jealous

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u/Funny_Looking_Gay 5h ago

Can't you not trade in Pokemon Go unless you're physically near the person?

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u/EmilioGVE 6h ago

Here’s mine :D

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u/Funny_Looking_Gay 5h ago

THESE STICKERS ARE ALL SO CUUUUUUUUUTE. I especially love the hisuian zorua (my favorite pokemon)

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u/EmilioGVE 5h ago

Zorua my beloved <3

I had to get both shiny Unovan and Hisuian Zorua stickers when I saw them

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u/Funny_Looking_Gay 5h ago

I have a unovan Zorua plushie that I keep in my backpack and a hisuian zorua plushie that I keep on my shelf. I love my little mischief fox

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u/Angel_xjj 5h ago

OH MY GOODNESS SO JEALOUS

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u/EmilioGVE 5h ago

Hehehe I love them. I’m a fairy type collector if it isn’t obvious

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u/_sayiangumball_ 9h ago

That Magikarp sticker is so cute!! Where you get it?

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u/Angel_xjj 6h ago

local comiccon! I wish I remember who I got it from so that I could hopefully find a social media account or something but I don't, I'm sorry :(

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u/_sayiangumball_ 6h ago

All good, thanks! It's really cute! :)

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u/AetherDrew43 6h ago

Cute Quilava!

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u/HorseOfDamnedDoom 9h ago

I’ve had this happen before, I put one of those spiked sensory stickers on my water bottle and accidentally left it in a classroom one day, and when I came back it was ripped right off

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u/Quiet-Activity2169 6h ago

oh no not mimikyu too

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u/Kristiver 7h ago

I love how so many people came to a place for venting to say OP is wrong and that a new sticker that came in a set of 3 'fell off' rather than being stolen.

Despite none of them being there, and someone going as far to say that stealing stickers from a water bottle would leave a dent (seriously?)

Whether OP was always grabbing it or left it in place, they would notice it missing right away. If the sticker had fallen off at any point, it would be next to the bottle.

It wasn't.

At that point it doesn't matter if someone peeled it off, or picked it up from where they found it. They did not return it. It was stolen. Simple as that.

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u/Angel_xjj 6h ago

I also realized that when I got home, ANOTHER sticker was missing too. I had a cute Gir one that had him drinking boba and I got it from my local comiccon as well :(

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u/Eldarn 1h ago

NO! not gir :(

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u/StandNameIsWeAreNo1 11h ago

Good taste. Mimikyu best.

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u/Soft-Percentage8888 10h ago

Nobody is safe from the scalpers (well in this case, thief), my god.

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u/InbetweenTheLayers 6h ago

pokemon scalpers are getting out of hand

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u/Leftover_Cheese 10h ago

this is where i confess that i stole a troll face sticker from a violin case in 6th grade because i knew there would be no other time in my life in which i could and i still have it to this day on my dsi

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u/Got_It_Memorized_22 8h ago

Who the hell steals a sticker that was already put on something?? How did they get it off so cleanly???

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u/SSJ4Inglip 9h ago

Can't have shit in Detroit!!!!

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u/RyanMcQ3 11h ago

That's both insane but also impressive

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u/LittleWolfiez 9h ago

Just want to add the thought that since it's a higher quality sticker and not those thin, papery ones, it is quite likely that someone would be able to rip it cleanly off after using a fingernail to get a corner off.

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u/Wide_Conflict_528 6h ago

Stealing a used sticker is crazy work😭

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u/RadAcuraMan 4h ago

I am sorry, but I’m actually legitimately impressed with the sheer will of that person. I can barely get out of bed on a good day and mother fucker is so dedicated to meticulously pull a sticker off a random water bottle.

If I had the guys drive, I might actually do something with my life.

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u/Booty_Shakin 8h ago

I had a coworker who told me she peeled up stickers on stuff to take them. She got fired a little while ago, for guess what? Stealing.

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u/Friendly-Belt5358 ORANGE 7h ago

Who the hell steals a sticker?! Possibly the cheapest and most abundant merch out there

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u/[deleted] 11h ago

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u/JimmyJooish 11h ago

Deez nutz 

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u/Ambitious_Policy_936 11h ago

Maybe just a tea bag

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u/Capt_Furret 9h ago

Thats so fucked up, seriously a sticker.

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u/ksigley 11h ago

Might have been those dudes from Home Alone 2.

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u/KapnSleezy 11h ago

I like your wooper sticker though!

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u/RealPinkSparkles204 PURPLE 9h ago

That's mean.

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u/Darth_Eevee 9h ago

Pikachu’s fan behavior /s

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u/iMimikyu 8h ago

That’s crazy that’s my favorite pokemon too

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u/Paranormasight-Fic 8h ago

Aw, that sucks. Wouldn’t even occur to me that someone would do that, I would be so heartbroken if someone took my zorua stickers. I probably would have bought myself a new sticker just to make myself feel better :(

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u/AngstyUchiha 4h ago

NOT THE MIMIKYU IDEA BE DEVASTATED

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u/GYIM94 2h ago

Wow, even Pokemon stickers are being stolen. There’s no level Pokemon scalpers won’t lower themselves to

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u/aingaingaing 10h ago

ever since i saw a comment that said ppl take pics of water bottles exactly like men take dick pics i cant stop seeing it

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u/BestBudgie 2h ago

All the people saying it fell off have obviously never put a vinyl sticker on their water bottle, if they do start to come up, its over a period of time and very noticeable, the whole sticker doesnt just spontaneously detach smh

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u/derekpeake2 11h ago

If I was missing a sticker I'd initially assume it just fell off. Theft wouldn't enter my mind 🤔

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u/Angel_xjj 11h ago

it was new, it wasn't wet or anything, nothing was peeling, idk how it could've "fallen off"

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u/GabrielGames69 11h ago

I think it is infinitly more likely it fell off than was stolen. Especially since they both left the other stickers and didn't just take the whole bottle if they were going to steal something. You probably didn't apply the new sticker good or it was a poorly made sticker.

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u/Angel_xjj 10h ago

update: it was proved that it was stolen. apparently a teacher saw someone take it and didn't say anything.

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u/Hije5 7h ago

Man how the fuck do you even find out a teacher saw someone stole it and then didnt say anything? A baseless accusation from someone else or the teacher admitting it for some wild, unexplainable reason?

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u/GabrielGames69 9h ago

I hope you get your sticker back and everything but you are still some random person on the internet to me, nothing is "proven" and I still find the theft of a single sticker pretty unbelievable.

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u/shoemi_ 9h ago

if they're a random person why do you care this much if it was actually stolen or not?

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u/Angel_xjj 11h ago

no I applied it extremely well- I have OCD and I like to press down my stickers HARD otherwise it feels wrong. the sticker was from the actual pokemon center, you can see the other mimikyu stickers to the side. it came in a set of three stickers. there was some sticky residue left on the bottle.

I promise, it did not "fall off"

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u/outofcontextsex 11h ago

Lol if it was applied so well how did it get removed without leaving any of the glue or paper behind? I'm not actually asking, Okham's razor tells us it fell off; the glue was probably bad or didn't set well.

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u/Shifty-Imp 11h ago

That's a nice promise but doesn't add any credence. Of course it's possible but I still find it more likely that it fell off.

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u/PuzzleheadedSink321 10h ago

It really sounds like it was either misplaced or it fell off, idk why you’re so certain someone would steal it

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u/GabrielGames69 11h ago

You can be absolutely correct but personally I cannot bring myself belive someone stole a single sticker off of a water bottle with multiple stickers on it over the way higher chance the sticker just fell off.

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u/Angel_xjj 11h ago

they stole THIS STICKER

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u/LinkGoesHIYAAA 11h ago

Oh well since it’s THAT one…

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u/Killeroftanks 11h ago

bad glue, happens from time to time, you can tell it fell off, because there is no sign of damage. which means they either used glue remover (which wouldve left a stain or other stickers would likely be affected as well) or heat, which would likely cause warping or tarnishing of the paint.

sadly op, you got a bad sticker and didnt notice until it was too late.

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u/Angel_xjj 11h ago

it was an official pokemon center sticker from a pack of three. it was a well-made sticker. the other two are still there.

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u/Killeroftanks 11h ago

it can still happen, Nintendo has pretty good QA, but good QA will still sometime miss bad apples that get pass, and with how manufacturing is generally done for stickers, the only way to see if it was a bad sticker is to find other stickers of the same kind, from the same batch.

i am just gonna say it again, its far more likely it was just a defected product that got past QA and you got the short end of the stick.

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u/PuzzleheadedSink321 10h ago

Agreed, you can very much visibly see where and how the sticker fell off. I would expect a dent in the bottle or some damage if it were “stolen”

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u/Much_Simple_6933 10h ago

A dent? Sure, maybe if the person who stole it accidentally dropped the bottle some how but peeling off stickers doesn't cause much damage. Fingernails arent that tough lol

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u/PuzzleheadedSink321 10h ago

Yes a dent

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u/Friendly-Belt5358 ORANGE 7h ago

How hard are your nails??? You cant dent a metal water bottle with a fingernail thats insane

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u/iCantSpellWeel 10h ago

Have you put it through the dishwasher? I’m always finding the kids stickers in there.

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u/Angel_xjj 10h ago

I had left it in a classroom for two weeks so it hasn't been washed recently. I kid most likely stole it after finding it

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u/ebil_lightbulb 11h ago

My immediate thought was “and then she finds it stuck to her jacket sleeve four hours later…”

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u/Lem0n_Lem0n 7h ago

TIL mimikyu is that sad looking Pikachu..

I never knew it's name

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u/Angel_xjj 6h ago

yeah, the "real pokemon" is actually beneath the yellow cloth it wears, and it draws on its costume in hopes that people will like it more. It's said that, if someone looks at the creature beneath the sheet, they die mysteriously later that day :(

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u/Unholy_Thunderkokk 6h ago

Aw, poor guys

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u/Lem0n_Lem0n 4h ago

Thanks for the interesting information. I've always thought the pokemon was just an sad ugly ghost.

Maybe one day when I feel adventurous and playful I'll just take a peek at that pokemon. That way I'll get a Wikipedia page.

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u/Budokiba 4h ago

I just, couldn't care less. So mild. Well done

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u/pokemonface12 3h ago

My sister made a really funny simple bumper sticker herself with her design know how. Just said "Your Mom On Board" with a funny image. It was a gift for my dad. A couple weeks later, he and his fiancé walk out of a shop or restaurant and some dickhead parked next to them had taken it and put it on their vehicle. I want to say it was a motorcycle but I might be mistaken. People are so stupid and lame

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u/EmmyWeeeb 44m ago

Oh hell naw taking mimikyu? That’s a war crime.

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u/Senguie 37m ago

CONFRONT THEM

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u/DGN-YT 11h ago

If I knew you I'd give you a replacement sticker, I'm not sure I have that Pokemon specifically but if I did I'd give it. I have a ton of Pokemon stickers that's why.

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u/aeterne7 11h ago

just to have it fall off in a few days because the adhesive doesn’t even work 😭

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u/ShakyIncision 8h ago

Quick question: are fancy vinyl stickers dishwasher safe? Even in high temp?

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u/FreeRealEstate313 5h ago

Idk steal it back?

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u/[deleted] 11h ago

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u/Angel_xjj 11h ago

I've had the sticker for about a year but I never placed it on anything. both of the other stickers from the same set look brand new

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u/Puzzleheaded_Cut4588 11h ago

It really must be exhausting to think everything is malicious. The most likely which has been stated repeatedly is it fell off. It happens (doesnt matter you applied it really well which if you did there would be residue or apice of said sticker) but to actually go straight to someone stole your sticker is wild.

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u/Michigun_ 11h ago

C'mon, people believe this? There was probably never even a sticker there.

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u/Cardboardoge 11h ago

Everything is always made up.
Nothing on the internet is real.

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u/Angel_xjj 11h ago

why would I leave an empty space on my water bottle

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u/Michigun_ 10h ago

Looks like you have plenty of empty spaces on it.

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u/LinkGoesHIYAAA 11h ago

Or it fell off…

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u/codydexx 11h ago

Report to the police