Posted on 02/01/2018 11:37:46 AM PST by sodpoodle
In an unusual emergency call, a mom of four young children dialed 911 last week, saying she had run out of options.
"I went to local churches and everything, trying to find food for my children," she told the dispatcher. "My kids have not eaten since yesterday."
"This is for police only," the dispatcher said. "It's not for this."
The distraught mom from Camden, New Jersey, said she was waiting for food stamps, which would take at least a month. She had no money, transportation or phone service, and the only number she was able to call was 911.
"If I could get some type of assistance," she pleaded. "If someone [could] come out. Help me with anything."
According to NBC, another dispatcher, Tondaleya Bagby, overheard the call and requested an officer go to the mom's residence to check on the family. "It made me sad. I couldn't imagine not being able to provide for my child," Bagby, also a mom, told NBC. When Camden County Officer David Hinton arrived at the apartment, he noticed there was no food, so he went to a local restaurant to bring food back to the family.
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God doesn’t look at the colour, why should anyone else?
Thank God they are grown. My granddaughter moved in with me when she was a senior in HS. She defied her mother knowing that she probably couldn’t get a court date before she turned 18.
My son still had to pay her mother child support for her for 2 more years but it was worth it.
She graduated from college in December having completed her studies in 3 1/2 years. She just passed her National Boards and is ready for a job.
Her mother didn’t contribute one, red cent but between scholarships, her father and us she graduated with no debt.
There is more to this story. Churches generally are very good about giving food and clothing to people who present themselves as needy, even to non-congregants. However, if a pattern of dependency starts to develop, churches usually will attach counseling requirements and ask to see finances to get to the bottom of why the situation is not improving. Many people who abuse church generosity will not agree to such requirement so the churches must will tell such people they can’t be helped any longer. The bottom line is that this woman has likely received support and assistance from local churches in the past, but she has abused that help without trying to better her situation. The churches she references have probably reached the point where they are not helping her because she really doesn’t want to help herself.
Ed
“Most churches continually turn the other cheek, and help, time and time again.”
The small church we used to go to got burned several times. We finally got together with the other small churches and got a phone network going where if someone asked for help in a big way they would tell the person to come back tomorrow after they’ve talked to the pastor about how much funds we had. “I need 167.37 to pay the electrical bill or they are going to turn it off and my kids will freeze.”
“Oh - is her name Marge? Yeah - she’s been using that for months now. She’s an addict.”
The secretary also had a bunch of coupons for a couple of the fast food places down in town, so if the people were just asking for a few bucks so they could eat, she gave them $8 in meal coupons or whatever.
We finally convinced the “do-gooders” that wanted to give to everybody that we only had a limited budget for that stuff, and if we just gave to anybody (the druggies or drinkers) then the people that REALLY needed help wouldn’t get it.
Often the people that needed real help we would help out even more. Repairs, monthly grocery trips, etc and built up a relationship with them.
Why are the poor spending their (our?) money on alcohol and tobacco? Neither of those is a necessity.
I can’t address the truth or falsity of your first assertion. Your second assertion is utterly false, and would be actionable if made against a specific person.
If Obama was still President he would help by making a Speech
You took the words out of my mouth...well, nearly. WHERE IS HER HUSBAND????!!!!!!!
That’s why they are poor. Why are we giving them food so they will have the money to buy cigarettes and alcohol?
Thanks, twerp. I can read.
Certainly some people are poor because they habitually make bad decisions. I don't smoke ... I do drink. There was a time when I was pretty far "down". "Buy food, not beer" was a pretty easy and obvious (to me) decision.
Yep. I use Tracfone and whenever I which to a new phone, I give the old phone to a charity, because it will still be good for 911 calls even if you run out of minutes.
I also have a couple of old phones I leave in my cars as backup emergency phones.
Sounds like Angels to me!
That’s the smart way to do it. Sad, it comes to that but it is what it is.
When I smoked, I chose cigarettes over food.
You forgot to list the tattoos. I don’t think they’re free.
“I went to local churches and everything,”
If she were established in a church and a part of a church family, she most likely wouldn’t be begging. It’s been my experience that churches take care of their own; I know the churches I’ve attended absolutely do.
There are scamming losers who traipse from one church to another with some hard-luck story asking for stuff — usually money, not food. Our parsonage was next door to the church when I was growing up, and we heard it all. Some we helped, and some we couldn’t. (If Dad saw a pack of cigarettes in a pocket... automatic, “No.”) Our church now deals with the same thing with three or four “hits” a month.
only 80%
millions in jail, ooopps
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