As ‘True Crime’ capers go this one seems mild comparable to serial killers and legitimate Ocean’s 11-type-heists.
On the surface ‘Operation Baja Blast‘ could be played off as just a person trying to get more than they should (greed).
On the other hand it could be perceived as the little guy sticking it to corporate America.
So… a little column A – a little column B.
Basically a guy with the handle EpitaphLIP had the idea to see if he could take Taco Bell’s store exclusive (can’t buy anywhere else) flavor of Mountain Dew’s Baja Blast home to drink. But not in just a T.B. cup – Pfft! – but in a LARGE volume container. Think, a two gallon gas can/ container-size vessel.
Now some 13 years later, you don’t have to resort to such elaborate, Rube-Goldberg-like mechanics to get the coveted Baja flavor as it is now available, sporadically, for a limited time at select retailers.
The story is played out in the YouTube video below where, with the help of many online cohorts/liquid engineers, he constructs a retrieval and containment system to pilfer Baja Blast in a mass quantity.
This shouldn’t be as interesting as it is – but it is!
The YouTube gaming site Cybershell did an exemplary job of pulling all the threads, videos, schematics, comments, etc., together for this piece.
[YOUTUBE: Cybershell]
