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Jul 29, 2009, 11:21AM

Oh, New Yorkers...

"How dumb do I think the Americans are? I bet we could sell those idiots water."

Reporting from New York — Two teachers on their lunch break scanned a refrigerated shelf inside a Manhattan coffee shop lined with drink bottles: Naked Juice, Perrier, Smartwater, New York City tap water."Tap water?" said Alison Szeli, 26, picking up the clear plastic bottle with orange letters: "Tap'd NY. Purified New York City tap water."She studied the description: "No glaciers were harmed in making this water." She compared prices: Smartwater cost $1.85. Tap'd NY was 35 cents less.Szeli and her co-worker went for tap, carrying the bottles to the cash register."It's cheaper," Szeli said. "Water is all the same anyway. I just prefer to buy my own water in bottles."

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