On Tue, 16 May 2006 19:27:26 -0400, Karen AKA Kajikit
> wrote:

>On Mon, 15 May 2006 00:45:56 GMT, The Bubbo >
>wrote:
>
>>well you have to admit it's pretty damned weird to believe there's some mass
>>conspiracy of people just dying to spend their evenings and weekends in a
>>warehouse so they can steal cans of beets or lima beans.
>>
>>I mean know what hot commodities those are, lord knows I was severely tempted
>>to grab those cans of veg-all and bags of puffed rice! I had to join the
>>support group for people tempted to steal generic green beans and graham
>>crackers from the needy! It was torture.
>
>Actually last year I chose not to donate because I knew that there
>were some rather shady people living in our complex and there was a
>high likelyhood that the food would be either vandalised by the idiot
>children who went around breaking the pool furniture etc, or stolen...
>fortunately since the building went condo all of those families are
>long-gone and the complex has gone many notches upmarket so I felt
>safe donating this year.

So what you're saying is that you refused to give food to poor people,
because other poor people might take it? That, I think, takes the
prize today, and I've read some pretty mindboggling stuff today.

serene
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