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$1,800 Food Donation? What's that Gonna Do, Girl? -- New link added

Posted on 5/22/26 at 7:09 am
Posted by Doctor B
Member since Jul 2024
1645 posts
Posted on 5/22/26 at 7:09 am
Woman in Opelousas donated $1,800 in food to a community (charity fridge).

Gone in 45 minutes. We have some fat frickers who wander around daily going from fridge to fridge to Wal-Mart to McD's saying they are starving.

People might criticize her for putting a bunch of processed Lunchables and pizzas and lunch meat in there. In her defense, she probably thought it needed to be items that would last a few days or a week.

ETA New link since the original link was also gone in about an hour.
Still Gone Girl
This post was edited on 5/22/26 at 9:45 am
Posted by bad93ex
Walnut Cove
Member since Sep 2018
36176 posts
Posted on 5/22/26 at 7:11 am to
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$1,800 in food


AKA one cart from Whole Foods
This post was edited on 5/22/26 at 7:12 am
Posted by Hangover Haven
Metry
Member since Oct 2013
33707 posts
Posted on 5/22/26 at 7:17 am to
Let's see how those "free groceries" in NY works out...
Posted by Barrister
Member since Jul 2012
5300 posts
Posted on 5/22/26 at 7:19 am to
I own and operate a public food pantry - - and before I opened it I had to wrap my mind around the fact that this can potentially happen. In fact my pantry has been wiped out once - - - I can say is feeding people is about filling a need without judgment. Who knows how many people took things? People that visit food pantries do not do it as a permanent way of life…. Whatever their circumstances are, they clearly have a need.

My point is, you if the model of your charity is that you make food available to the public anonymously- - you just have to do it without judgment and know this kinda stuff will occasionally happen. All you can do it hope everything got distributed to people who had a need.
Posted by sleepytime
Member since Feb 2014
3909 posts
Posted on 5/22/26 at 7:20 am to
This sounds like a project for Mark Rober.
Posted by nes2010
Member since Jun 2014
7869 posts
Posted on 5/22/26 at 7:22 am to
At least they didn't steal the fridge.
Posted by bad93ex
Walnut Cove
Member since Sep 2018
36176 posts
Posted on 5/22/26 at 7:23 am to
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I own and operate a public food pantry


Do you live in a "high-trust" community?
Posted by Doctor B
Member since Jul 2024
1645 posts
Posted on 5/22/26 at 7:27 am to
I have no problem with helping out people who are working and struggling. My issue with some of the people in need is if you work in a downtown area of any mid-size or large city, you will often see the same people who go get this food. Then they go hang out at a library in Houston, San Antonio, N.O. ...and they watch you tube videos on public computers for hours. I do a lot of work travel regionally in the South. There are a lot of long-term several years needy folks.
Posted by REB BEER
Laffy Yet
Member since Dec 2010
18094 posts
Posted on 5/22/26 at 7:29 am to
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At least they didn't steal the fridge.


It’s Opelousas, it won’t be long.
Posted by IndianPower
Louisiana
Member since May 2021
1883 posts
Posted on 5/22/26 at 7:30 am to
.......yet.
Posted by Weekend Warrior79
Member since Aug 2014
21758 posts
Posted on 5/22/26 at 7:52 am to
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Let's see how those "free groceries" in NY works out...

Will be fun to watch. They are supposedly putting limits on how much “you can check out”, so you’ll know there will be fights at the register when people inevitably go over. Plus you’ll just have people bringing the whole family so they can all get their own carts
Posted by CocomoLSU
Inside your dome.
Member since Feb 2004
156640 posts
Posted on 5/22/26 at 7:58 am to
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People that visit food pantries do not do it as a permanent way of life….

I'd bet that some of them absolutely do.
Posted by Night Vision
Member since Feb 2018
22049 posts
Posted on 5/22/26 at 7:59 am to
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People that visit food pantries do not do it as a permanent way of life


Some do.
Posted by Lester Earl
3rd Ward
Member since Nov 2003
290910 posts
Posted on 5/22/26 at 8:00 am to
These charity fridges that are connected to social media are strictly performative.

No one can do nice things anymore without blasting it to everyone.
Posted by ruzil
WNC
Member since Feb 2012
18384 posts
Posted on 5/22/26 at 8:02 am to
I never noticed that the neighborhood library boxes having this same problem of being wiped out.
Posted by jrobic4
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2011
13299 posts
Posted on 5/22/26 at 8:08 am to
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MOST People that visit food pantries do not do it as a permanent way of life


You cannot issue a blanket statement like you did because it's simply untrue. There are people who legitimately need help, and there are those abuse the system
Posted by Napoleon
Kenna
Member since Dec 2007
74292 posts
Posted on 5/22/26 at 8:09 am to
I saw a guy in a truck at the food fridge in NOLA by Costco unload all the food in it.
The point is to take a meal or two but to empty it out.
Posted by Bard
Definitely NOT an admin
Member since Oct 2008
59307 posts
Posted on 5/22/26 at 8:14 am to
quote:

feeding people is about filling a need without judgment.

quote:

if the model of your charity is that you make food available to the public anonymously- - you just have to do it without judgment




My grandfather was an amazing gardener. He spent his life growing things and learning better ways to do so, his gardens always produced bumper crops. Anyone on the farm could come by and pick what they might need for dinner, canning, etc.

One year he told some distant relatives they could help themselves to it since the butterbeans that year were exceptionally plentiful. Instead of coming and getting what they needed (or even just wanted) for their own needs, they plucked that fricking garden clean and then were seen selling the produce in a parking lot in a city a few dozen miles away.

My charitable donations are to those I've personally vetted and to organizations who vet their consumers so that the charity actually goes to help people who are legitimately in need. Donating so blindly is to encourage, enable and assist shysters. The more of them who find out about such blind largess, the more they will take AND the more word will get out to others like them.

Sure, you help some out but because we have a growing number of assbags who take it simply because it's there (to either enrich themselves or just feel like they got something over on someone) it can end up being a shitshow as those who are actually in need get beat to the punch by the greedy.
Posted by Onyx Aggie
Foothills of the Smokies
Member since Sep 2012
2968 posts
Posted on 5/22/26 at 8:30 am to
First that fatty in the Tim Horton's granny video, now this. Reporter is fat, gap toothed, and has a football field of space between her eyes. These local stations are failing their cities, failing their state, failing their country, and failing the world. Unacceptable!
Posted by UnitedFruitCompany
Bay Area
Member since Nov 2018
4095 posts
Posted on 5/22/26 at 8:47 am to
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This sounds like a project for Mark Rober.


He usually deals with animals that have a baseline level of intelligence. Like squirrels, for instance.
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