Ease up there, big guy. You're getting your panties in a wad for no good reason.
(1) I didn't say
you said "rare". I was responding to other posters who were reiterating your post. You
did, however, say,
I think they might be forgiven for interpreting "very unusual, unique" as "rare". Don't you?
(2) Who cares what it was "manufactured for"? We
know from a first hand observer that at least at one point it wasn't being
sold for that.
(3) Bully for you. I won't get into a belly bumping contest with you about construction credentials because it has absolutely no relevance to this discussion, but FWIW I can match you easily year for year, and I am quite familiar with duct tape in all of its many incarnations and applications.
(4) Yes. This has been established. Again, who cares? I've got duct tape floating around my workshop and vehicles that are certainly less than new, even years old. I expect that you do too. We
know from a first hand observer that this particular tape was available for purchase within a reasonable time span prior to Caylee's murder.
The point of
my post was that we
know from a first hand observer that this particular tape was available to anyone who wandered into a Home Depot local to Orlando in search of weatherproofing supplies immediately before an oncoming hurricane.
"Rare", "unique", "unusual", "common" ... these are all distinctions that we now
know are not important to this particular topic, because we
know that in this particular case the stuff was for sale right there in Orlando. Good grief, the guy even posted photos in this thread ... of
his roll of this "unusual, unique type of duct tape."
In your item (3) above you said,
"In 35 years in the construction industry, I have never seen a duct tape with the logo printed on the face of the tape."
Perhaps you should have qualified that with "... until I saw the photos in this thread
of the tape from an Orlando Home Depot."