To New York Branch of the U.S. Post Office: THE FINGER!
Steve just told me that his Homie got SNATCHED. He received an envelope with my note, but with no Homie. I’m really sad. And in addition angry. If you have to steal and be a jerk, then take money or drugs or some electronic equipment that you can actually GET MONEY FOR, YOU MORON. LEAVE THE HOMIES ALONE.
So now I worry that all the Homies I have sent off in the world are going to be Homie-snatched too. And all of you will remain homieless. I’ll have to start some kind of fundraiser for the homieless. So to my human homies, I apologize that New York-based United States postal workers cannot be trusted with toy Homies, I’m sorry if you don’t receive yours because of some filthy Homie pirates.
I will be mad pissed if my Homie doesn’t make it to Australia. Can you imagine? It takes like a hundred years for crap to get there, and then on the other end, you just get a stupid note without a Homie. Like what is the point of even living.
Boo.
Are you sure it’s not because there’s some drug inside the homies? Maybe the customs at the post office screened the homies and found some weed or some white substance in it. I’ll let you know if your homies make it to the Middle East.
I found out today that most people do not know what is a Homie. Even my American colleague does not know what it is.
So, here’s the extract from Wikipedia:
Homies are a series of 2-inch figurines loosely based upon Chicano (Mexican American) characters in the life of artist David Gonzales. First created in 1998, these plastic figurines were initially sold via vending machines typically positioned in supermarkets, but quickly became collectibles among young children and teenagers.
The figures caused controversy after their initial release, as members of the Los Angeles police department (LAPD), argued that the figures glorified gang life. Many stores stopped selling the toys after the LAPD complained.
Gonzales then created a story for each of the Homies’ characters, each of which had a positive view of the characters. Some of them became former jailmates who went on to educate children about how to avoid jail.
Mainstream stores, such as Walmart, quickly returned the Homies to their stacks, and the toy branched out to include a line of die cast cars, among other things. By 2005, the Homies character line had women, as well as Filipino, Japanese and Puerto Rican characters. The Puerto Ricans set, which includes twelve of the Homies, are nicknamed Los Boricuas. According to Gonzales, he has received orders from countries in Europe, South America and Africa requesting characters representing people from those continents.
Homies have become a highly collectible item among fans of the line. Many imitation toys have hit the market following the success of Homies.
In 2004, the creators of Homies, created ‘Mijos’ intended for a younger audience. They are solely Hispanic and are portrayed as kids, babies, and teens.
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Judging from that description, I reckon your Homies were confiscated by the LAPD.
The most absurd part of this is that tampering with mail is a federal offense. So some dude at the post office had to be like “oh snap, there’s something fresh in this envelope worth committing a felony over” and then proceeded to bust a hole in the envelope to jack my Homie. Somebody tell me what happens to postal workers who get sent to the federal pen for boosting Big Vato from the U.S. Mail. I hope the punishment is disgraceful and rectally punitive.
I am crossing my fingers, hopefully her majesty Royal Mail Service only delay the delivery as they always do, but don’t confiscate it.
o.m.g.
dude a homie IS what i thought it was????
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Homieless: My friend just received hers, in tact, so there is hope. But who knows…
Steve: Seriously!!!! WTF! At that point, wouldn’t you just shove it back in the envelope? Like oh shit, it’s just a Homie who fucking cares? Give it back to the kid?
Pedro: Yeah I hope they don’t STEAL or SNATCH or PLUNDER or PILLAGE or THIEVE or GANK or FIVE-FINGER DISCOUNT your Homie.
Sandy: Hey, I will drop one in the mail for you.
Australia Post usually offer a good service. My friend in NY always sends me packets of candy that seem to get here uneaten
Wow…seriously. That is so freakin’ pathetic. Why do people have no lives? Just wondering, because last time I checked life was too short to steal other people’s homies. Or read their mail for that matter?
Ugh…well…i hope the rest of your homies get to their actual destinations. Keeping my fingers crossed.
I could be very, very wrong, but I believe there is some kind of machine in post offices (used to sort mail possibly) that sometimes accidentally rips things out of envelopes. I’ve occasionally had cards with beads or other non-flat stuff on them reach people with the beads eaten off and a big hole in the envelope.
Ok, so I could totally have made that up, and I guess this only applies if you sent it in a regular envelope vs. a box or something.
Klo: Well hopefully it gets there, if not, I’ll cry. I’m out of Homies now.
Maddie: I know people totally suck. Get your OWN Homies!
Liv: Maybe, I mean it’s certainly possible. I put it in a regular envelope. But some of them made it fine. OH well.
maybe they go through customs and get damaged while they are looking for ‘organic’ material (ie drugs)
Envelopes all go through high speed machines (even really thick envelopes) at the post office.If you mail a homie in a regular envelope, the chances are it will get ripped out of the envelope in the machine.These machines run an average of 150,000 pieces of mail each in an 8 hour day. There is no way of knowing which envelope the homie came out of.Lots of letters get chewed up every day.I’m sure nobody stole the homie-it’s not worth getting fired over-there are alot more valuable things to steal if we wanted to.Always mail the homies in a box-they will still go through a machine but not the “shredder”letter machine as we call it in the P.O.
Bryggs: Ahhhhhhhhhhh a thousand lightbulbs just went on in my head. Cool that makes a lot of sense. It just seemed suspicious that it looked like someone’s finger had poked through it. BUt I rather think it is a machine than a human doing evil things. Thanks.