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Officers respond to Augusta grocery store eviction (Food gets trashed - Not given away)
Online Athens ^ | 03/27/2013 | By Steve Crawford and Meg Mirshak

Posted on 03/27/2013 9:32:22 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd

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Employees and hired men clear up piles of food discarded by Laney Supermarket after the store was evicted on Tuesday, March 26, 2013. (Emily Rose Bennett/Morris News Service)

U.S. Marshals keep crowds back as men clear up piles of food discarded by Laney Supermarket after the store was evicted on Tuesday, March 26, 2013. (Emily Rose Bennett/Morris News Service)  Morris News Service

 

1 posted on 03/27/2013 9:32:22 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

Feral animals . . . disgusting!


2 posted on 03/27/2013 9:36:22 AM PDT by laweeks
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To: Responsibility2nd

Obammie’s FSA on the march.


3 posted on 03/27/2013 9:36:30 AM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I can’t believe someone didn’t just buy the entire inventory at $.20/1.00 and both parties are better off.

What a waste, but I can understand the cops point of view. I could see a situation like this turning ugly in a heartbeat when greed sets in.


4 posted on 03/27/2013 9:38:06 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: laweeks

??? why


5 posted on 03/27/2013 9:38:50 AM PDT by stuartcr ("I have habits that are older than the people telling me they're bad for me.")
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To: Responsibility2nd

It is Illegal for Restaurants to give away Free Food, I bet it is also Illegal for Stores to do the same.


6 posted on 03/27/2013 9:43:19 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: eyeamok

I believe that only counts with prepared food. Last week I walked into my local Kroger’s and there was a huge display of single serving bags of Doritos in their atrium, free to anyone with no limit apparently.

I saw kids running out with armfuls and they just kept stocking the shelves.


7 posted on 03/27/2013 9:50:09 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Abathar

You maybe correct, but If I owned this business I would NOT take the Chance under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.


8 posted on 03/27/2013 9:55:52 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Responsibility2nd

It is too bad the food could not have been donated to a local shelter or food bank. Someone wasn’t thinking and/or didn’t care. The bank could have earned kudos in the community by arranging pickup of the food for delivery to the shelter. With landfill dumping fees and dumpster rental, delivery of the food might have been cheaper.


9 posted on 03/27/2013 10:00:16 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was lost but now I'm found; blind but now I see.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Government handouts -- they keep the poor dependent on politicians, and keep them voting the right way.

If a restaurant, a store, or some kind of business tries to do something to help the poor, they are likely to find out that there is some law somewhere that is being violated. The cops will show up, trash the food, admonish the citizens trying to help the poor, and then remind the crowd that real help can only be found from the government masters.

10 posted on 03/27/2013 10:08:30 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The ballot box is a sham. Nothing will change until after the war.)
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onlookers became angry when they learned they would not be allowed to take away food and other sundries that were piled outside the grocery as “abandoned property.”

And if someone get sick or worse, the food producers would get sued if it was allowed to happen!!

11 posted on 03/27/2013 10:27:18 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (More Republicans stayed home then the margin of victory of O's Win...)
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“.....with Sheriff Richard Roundtree”

They called in “Shaft” to maintain order? He definitely kept the young chicks busy...


12 posted on 03/27/2013 10:33:14 AM PDT by SeminoleCounty (GOP = Greenlighting Obama's Programs)
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Feral animals . . . disgusting!

Why would you say such? There was nothing wrong with what they were doing. Much better than trashing it all. As late as the 1990's our grocery would set out old produce and past "sell by" dated items in the back of the store for people to come take for free. Everyone in town would pick up stuff. Of course, the store had to quit due to laws even though they'd place things on pallets and tables so it wasn't dirty. For a while after that, they'd send their old bread to the senior center and the center would put grocery baskets full out on the curb for anyone to take. Now, they can't even do that. Everything has to be trashed. You can't even ask for old produce for your livestock these days. It's a total waste.

13 posted on 03/27/2013 10:53:11 AM PDT by bgill
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i swear you could open an AYCE buffett that serves nothing but dogshit and if charging nothing, the lines would be around the block several times


14 posted on 03/27/2013 11:16:48 AM PDT by vikzilla
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Oddly enough, I don’t think the taxman would permit them to give away more than a small part of their inventory. This is because they see it as potentially taxable, unless it is destroyed and written off as a loss.

Probably the baseline legal case for this was of the owner of an apartment block, who wanted to retire and give the apartment block to his tenants. The IRS intervened and told him that if he did that, they would still tax him on the money he might have made had he sold the block on the open market.

The most egregious example of this is for successful artists. The famous artist Ted DeGrazia discovered that the IRS intended to list every bit of art he had created or anything he had signed, including drafts, sketches, his signature on bank checks, contracts, whatever, as highly valued art worth a million or more dollars, then slap his children with a huge inheritance tax bill when he died.

Using a backhoe, he dug a hole in his yard, put hundreds of artworks and sketches in it, and set it on fire as IRS agents watched. Then they advised him that it didn’t matter if those things had been destroyed, he still owed the tax on them.

In frustration, he set up a non-profit foundation, gave everything to it, then died to spite the IRS.


15 posted on 03/27/2013 11:21:45 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Best WoT news at rantburg.com)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Maybe they went out of business because they tried to run a business in a black community... and the ‘shrinkage’ rate was so high they had to close. (people were stealing from them) They figured they would rather throw the food away...

There’s rational reasons business shy away from black communities. It’s because gang banger and crooks run the communities and the honest black citizens hide in their homes... wondering why they don’t have places close by to shop at...


16 posted on 03/27/2013 2:20:51 PM PDT by GOPJ (DHS HAS secured: 1.6 BILLION bullets - 2.700 tanks and 35,000 drones ...to use on American soil...)
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To: SeminoleCounty

They say he’s a bad......


17 posted on 03/27/2013 2:25:17 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Lurker

Shut your mouth!


18 posted on 03/27/2013 2:39:14 PM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: PLMerite

Was Laney Supermarket on or near the Martin Looter Blvd?


19 posted on 03/27/2013 4:05:46 PM PDT by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
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To: vikzilla

“i swear you could open an AYCE buffett that serves nothing but dogshit and if charging nothing, the lines would be around the block several times”

I think I went to that place once, only it wasn’t free.


20 posted on 03/27/2013 4:26:49 PM PDT by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smartass disorder.)
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