[gojomo]

Meth addicts do bizarre things for reasons that only make sense in their manic/paranoid hallucinations. Compulsive and repetitive cleaning, redecorating, arranging, painting, burning, cutting, whatever.

The mere fact that such tags usually say "don't remove under penalty of law" may have convinced them it was a listening device. Really.

[burgerbrain]

Yeah, I get that, but we are all aware that that warning is meant for the retailers of the pillows not the owners, right? I'm really just confused that it would be even worth mentioning in the same sentence in the other things.

[gojomo]

That detail helps indicate the bizarreness of the situation, which goes beyond strictly gain-oriented criminality. She/they hung out doing crazy things, too. (The detail in the original blog post about burning duraflames in summer with closed chimney also served the same aim.)

[rkudeshi]

I did not know that. Makes a whole lot more sense now.

[burgerbrain]

Yep, the tags are meant to inform the purchaser of safety stuff and whatnot.

http://money.howstuffworks.com/removed-mattress-tag.htm