CTV Tries to Make Sense of Chip Bandit Story Going Viral
Yesterday, we brought you the story of the Saanich Chip Bandits right as it was going viral. When I first saw the video on Monday night there were only around 15,000 views on the month-old video. On Tuesday, it went viral and by the time this posts there will be well over 300,000 views – which does not count an appearance on Anderson Cooper’s Ridiculist.
Like any good journalist, CTV did a follow-up story about how their story went viral. It included a cameo from The Big Lead.com and my hilarious (and true) line about Sgt. Dean Jantzen: “a damn American Canadian hero.” (The 1:48 mark. Would have been nice to get the website mentioned, but its a start.) Honestly, being quoted in a Canadian news broadcast about drunk Canadian college girls stealing potato chips? That’s like my own personal trip to the Zellers.
This is the original Chip Bandits video, in case you got through this entire post and had no idea what I was talking about. And if you were curious, the video was first sent to me by @BillVoth who found it via @andrewbucholtz, via @burritojustice, traced all the way back to @toteslates on July 9th at 7:26pm.
[Thanks to magmazing for the second video tip]
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July 11th, 2012 at 3:15 PM
“The homeowner who had her BBQ chips stolen has not come forward.”
Amazing line.
July 11th, 2012 at 3:17 PM
By highlighting potato chip thefts, you are only abetting in the growing crisis of potato chip thefts that is bringing our cities to their knees.
July 11th, 2012 at 3:19 PM
15,00 views
Is that number in Canadian?
July 11th, 2012 at 3:20 PM
And if you were curious, the video was first sent to me by @BillVoth who found it via @andrewbucholtz, via @burritojustice, traced all the way back to @toteslates on July 9th at 7:26pm.
That’s good sourcing.
I love everything about this.
July 11th, 2012 at 3:20 PM
The classic potato chip shield law.
July 11th, 2012 at 3:23 PM
Somebody’s bucking for a promotion.
July 11th, 2012 at 3:24 PM
“The homeowner who had her BBQ chips stolen has not come forward.”
BBQ potato chip theft is a victimless crime in Canada.
July 11th, 2012 at 3:26 PM
Saanich Chip Bandits
I think I just found my FFB team name.
Why wasn’t there a PSA this time?
July 11th, 2012 at 3:29 PM
The classic potato chip shield law.
+1
July 11th, 2012 at 3:33 PM
Man do I want to read those apology letters.
July 11th, 2012 at 3:34 PM
Easy scripty, you’re going to get some internet chick heckling you for finding that amusing.
/tosh’d
July 11th, 2012 at 3:36 PM
It would have been a felony if they were ketchup flavored.
July 11th, 2012 at 3:38 PM
It would have been a felony if they were ketchup flavored.
Whoa whoa whoa. Hold up.
/Runs to Google.
No fucking way.
O, Canada.
July 11th, 2012 at 3:40 PM
a real bbq potato chip is in the rub, not the sauce
July 11th, 2012 at 3:40 PM
Line from the apology letter below, think she’s a Enlgish major?
July 11th, 2012 at 3:41 PM
Ketchup flavored chips are the bomb. Can’t believe we don’t have them in ‘Merica.
July 11th, 2012 at 3:43 PM
these are better.
July 11th, 2012 at 3:44 PM
angry: http://www.herrs.com/products/Chips/Ketchup.html
July 11th, 2012 at 3:45 PM
KC wins, although I’ve actually had them. They’re all over Columbus, or anywhere within the Herr’s distribution area. They’re a PA company.
July 11th, 2012 at 3:46 PM
Lisk put up a 49ers post at 7:00 am? What a jerk!
July 11th, 2012 at 3:47 PM
As a Canadian, it’s a damn shame that you Yankees don’t have ketchup chips. Every brand makes em, and they’re delicious. Get it together.
July 11th, 2012 at 3:47 PM
Seriously? In addition to the two brands already mentioned, we’ve had these overrated things available for a while now in Michigan.
July 11th, 2012 at 3:50 PM
My mistake, I haven’t noticed ketchup flavored in my store. I’ll take a closer look this week.
July 11th, 2012 at 3:53 PM
We used to have these in the snack machine here at work….
July 11th, 2012 at 3:53 PM
All Dressed are awesome chips too.
Lays makes a shitload of regional chips in Canada. Fries & gravy, roasted chicken, stuff like that.
We get stuck with loaded baked potato chips FUCK THAT
July 11th, 2012 at 3:55 PM
loaded baked potato chips suck balls. even worse than salt and vinegar chips (Cape Cod brand are only tolerable S&V chips).
a poutine-flavored chip would be fantastic
July 11th, 2012 at 3:56 PM
/faps
//furiously
///Duffy
July 11th, 2012 at 3:56 PM
Close.
July 11th, 2012 at 3:59 PM
next time someone goes to Canada, pick up some for me.
July 11th, 2012 at 4:00 PM
These are really good.
July 11th, 2012 at 4:02 PM
In the 90s the upscale southern grocer chain Harris Teeter used PC as its store brand, those were good days.
July 11th, 2012 at 4:03 PM
Ketchup flavored chips are the bomb. Can’t believe we don’t have them in ‘Merica.
I have never heard of them. I will seek them out.
July 11th, 2012 at 4:05 PM
I’ve seen the ketchup-flavored Lays in Walmart and some other grocery stores here in NY.
Know what is fucking good? the new Wheat Thins. Zesty Salsa, Smoky BBQ, Hot Buffalo..win
July 11th, 2012 at 4:06 PM
The ketchup chips have reached as far east as Syracuse, at least.
July 11th, 2012 at 4:22 PM
First they came for our BBQ chips, and I didn’t speak out. Then they came for our gravy-drenched poutine, and I didn’t speak out. Then they come for our maple syrup, and I didn’t speak out.
When they come for our Molson, the guns come out.
July 11th, 2012 at 4:24 PM
Canucks are weird.
/ Goes back to eating boiled crawfish and garlic shrimp ‘n’ grits
July 11th, 2012 at 5:14 PM
Thanks for this nugget.
July 11th, 2012 at 6:16 PM
As a Canadian, it’s a damn shame that you Yankees don’t have ketchup chips. Every brand makes em, and they’re delicious. Get it together.
Sorry to hear that you’re Canadian. Add 1 to the fuck ketchup chips group.