Food Drive Thieves Suck

[ThePhoneGoddess]

Dear Food Drive Thieves:

You suck.

I went out of my way to buy $25 dollars worth of canned goods to put in the food drive bin because I know the economy is tanked right now and people are going hungry. I know what it is to go hungry. I'm thankful to have a decent job that pays my bills right now and I wanted to share. I even made sure to buy alphabet spaghettios for the children who will no doubt be eating from said food drive.

And you stole half of it. You stole those damn spaghettios right out of the bin. You stole the canned beans and tuna too, as well as some other people's donations. In fact you stole so much that everyone noticed the bin was a lot emptier, and the supervisors had to move the bin out of the lunch room and into the command center where they could keep an eye on it.

I hope you go hungry for Thanksgiving, whoever you are. You deserve it.

Sincerely,

Angry Graveyard Girl

[LingualMonkey]

There is a special plane of Hell reserved for people who would steal from the needy.

[Nyoibo]

A very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.

Points for who gets the reference, come on geeks.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

My church used to have people routinely break in and steal stuff. We are a poor church, and don't have a lot to steal to start with (anything of value we had pretty much got stolen a long time ago), so people were breaking in and stealing coffee, sugar, etc.

There was a dude living in the woods behind the church in a tent, but that's another story. Weird.

Anyways, they hit the food bank bin a few times, and while we were not happy about it, we kind of had to go "well, that stuff is for the hungy...and if you are stealing food, you're probably hungry." I doubt the wealthy were hitting the thing, so, whatever. I can't say too much about a needy person stealing food meant for the needy.

[Imogene]

A very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.

*blink, blink* Yes, Shepherd Book.

[Lusorius]

Beat me to it!

[Dytchdoctir]

There is a special plane of Hell reserved for people who would steal from the needy.

And then you have the EW needy.

Ms. Dytch once volunteered to help distribute her church's food drive.

The cast:

MD The wonderful Ms. Dytch
SC You know. In this case, female, with 5 dirty kids in tow.
FV Fellow volunteer.
AP Awesome priest, well known for willingness to speak his mind.

SC: This is POWDERED milk, ain't you got no REAL milk?
MD: No we don't, sorry.
SC: Well why the **** not!?
MD:
FV: Excuse me, watch your mouth.
SC: I'll say what the **** I want!
AP: Not here you won't. And to answer your question, this food drive has been going on for over a month.
SC:
AP: And we requested non-perishable items only.
SC:
AP: Because we don't have facilities to store refrigerated items for a month.
SC: So!?
AP: And so, take your nice free food, and your mouth, and your attitude, and go.
SC: (makes CBF, leaves).
MD and FV:

A minute or so later, FV happens to walk by a window.

FV: Hey! She's dumping out the milk powder in the parking lot!
AP: I got this.

AP proceeds to confront her in the parking lot and rips her a new one. She jumps in her douchemobile and leaves.

Omnes:

[JoitheArtist]

A very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.

Points for who gets the reference, come on geeks.

Well...isn't that "special"!

Browncoats, FTW!

*goes off to hide self in geeky shame*

[Misanthropical]

She jumps in her douchemobile and leaves.

I just got ice tea everywhere!

[wagegoth]

Well...isn't that "special"!

Browncoats, FTW!

*goes off to hide self in geeky shame*

Hey, it's already pretty crowded in this hidey hole!

[drunkenwildmage]

Back in her college years, when my wife was a social work major, 1 semester she had to work at the salvation army for a internship. Part of it was giving bags of good out of the food pantry. She said that for every 1 person that was grateful to get food, she had another 3 bitching about what was in the bags. In allot of cases, she had people pull items out of the bag and leave them in the counter. In more extreme cases One person said " I'm not eating this crap" and another person upset because it wasn't name brand, but all generic stuff in the bag.

After that semester, she changed her major, and took up accounting.

[Becks]

Stories like this make me hate people. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

[eltf177]

To steal from the needy is just about as low as you can get. In the Town where I work there are several charities that run drives, people are always putting out stuff in bags labeled for whatever charity it's intended for.

One morning I was patrolling when I stumbled across some bimbo and her kid driving around a neighborhood going through the bags and taking what they wanted! I swear, if I hadn't been in a Town uniform driving a Town truck and on the clock I would have bitchslapped them until they didn't know what planet they were on!

All I could do was call the cops, who (as usual) couldn't be bothered with something so trivial and never showed. Several homeowners complained they never got their Tax Receipts and have since stopped donating.

Most of what was left of my faith in humanity died that day...

[JLRodgers]

People stealing from those things both annoys me, and doesn't....
On one hand I figure if they really need the food, why don't they ask for it?
On the other, I figure if they are stealing the food they probably do need it.

[If it wasn't for the stupid thing shoved into people's heads since birth of.... what's it called.... gone blank.... the thing about how a person is ashamed or something to ask for help because of what it might make others think if they knew they didn't have anything... pride? Think that's it...]

If it wasn't for "pride" (see above) people might be more willing to go to the agencies for help.... or maybe they have before and realized that there's so many people needing help that they'll get next to nothing and have to ration it.


Back when I was in school, I volunteered to help with a food drive thing. We had close to 100 bags of food (filled at that!) and they were given to the needy.... but it wasn't enough. Not sure if the people complained about what was in it -- but we the volunteers did. People kept on giving crap that we wouldn't touch (like really.... if you wouldn't eat a rusted can that's starting to expand, why would you donate it???).

[Sableonblonde]

Seriously, even dirt poor people can be just as entitled and snobby as rich people. Doesn't matter how much money you have.

I work in a homeless shelter, running the kitchen and serving meals to the residents. Now, these meals are all catered by a restaurant. They are very nice and usually pretty darn fancy, like stuff you'd see at a wedding or banquet, with something different every day for lunch and dinner - chicken, fish, hamburgers, tacos, pasta, hoagies, meatloaf, etc etc. And you still have people come in and turn their nose up at the stuff and announce they are going to head down the street to McDonald's, or else they bring in microwave meals to eat instead.

It's sad, but I got pretty jaded working at the shelter. I started out so bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, genuinely excited about being able to help people. But so many people just don't have any appreciation.