Post edited 10:24 am – January 6, 2013 by Cherie
Post edited 10:25 am – January 6, 2013 by Cherie

So I went to five different Wal-Marts yesterday to try and find the sidekick with Rip. Four out of the five stores did not even have the side-kick. The sidekick that I did find had been raided by what I am assuming was an overly aggressive eBayer, who only took Rip. The person, if you want to call him/her this, (I prefer "animal") had thrown all of the cars in a  pile on the floor. A few of the cars are out of the pic,  further down the aisle, where someone must have kicked them. I call this pic "SERIOUSLY?!" Who does something like this? Obviously, someone with NO RESPECT for the Cars – or someone's child on the run. My bet (based on the fact that ONLY Rip is missing) is on the overly aggressive eBayer.

Post edited 3:43 pm – January 6, 2013 by Cherie
Post edited 3:56 pm – January 6, 2013 by Cherie
Post edited 4:01 pm – January 6, 2013 by Cherie

e.davies1 said:

I'll try some benefit-of-the-doubt here… sure, someone else bought the Rips, but maybe it was hung up, was knocked down by someone on accident, they stood it back up against the wall, and then i can't explain the rest.

Upon first entering the scene I thought maybe someone knocked it down on accident myself, but after ascertaining the situation I realized that all of the cars had indeed been pulled out and thrown on the ground – NO DOUBT. It was right next to a pole where you could not turn a corner and hit it with a cart from one direction. If it had been hit with a cart it would have been pushed into the poll – not sitting perfectly straight  right in front of the area where it should have been hung. Also, the cars would have been thrown in the opposite direction, not in the only direction the cart could have possibly been coming from that may have hit it.  I highly doubt someone could "accidentally" knock it with enough force for all the cars to fall into a nice little pile, yet leave the actual box perfectly straight against the shelf. I can really see someone knock everything over, stop to pick up the box, and leave all the cars sitting there. Plus, it had never been hung – there were no hang tabs on it and there was something else already hanging where it was supposed to hang. It was set up against the shelf by an employee and raided by a fool. Also, if a person did knock it over by accident COMMON COURTESY to the employees or other shoppers should have inspired them to pick it up. It would have taken a whole 1 minute.