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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Crime Thieves Steal Food in Rainier Valley Food Bank Heist

Posted by Charles Mudede on Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:00 AM

The Seattle Times reports:

About 450 people are expected Saturday at the Rainier Valley Food Bank to get food for Thanksgiving meals. But when staff arrived Wednesday at 6 a.m., they found the lock on the storage container had been cut and nearly everything inside had been stolen.

Burglars took several hundred pounds of potatoes and onions, as well as 30 crates of canned fruit, soup, chips, peanut butter and vegetables that volunteers collected last weekend. The loss totaled $1,500 to $2,000, said Sam Osborne, the food bank's executive director.

Democracy Now reports:

Wall Street Headed for Record Profits in 2009

New government figures show Wall Street is on pace to have its most profitable year to date. On Tuesday, the New York Comptroller Office said Wall Street profits are set to exceed the record set three years ago, before the onset of the nation’s financial meltdown. The four largest firms—Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase—took in $22.5 billion in profits through September. The top six banks set aside $112 billion for salaries and bonuses over the same period. In a statement, New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said, “The national economy is slowly improving, but Wall Street has recovered much faster than anyone had envisioned.”

Thieves on the street; thieves on Wall Street.

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You'll get no argument out of me on that one.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on November 19, 2009 at 8:20 AM

How desperate and corrupt does one have to be to steal from a food bank? Maybe it was out of work investment bankers from WaMu???

Posted by danindowntown on November 19, 2009 at 8:29 AM

Those fuckers are digging their own grave.

Posted by Rotten666 on November 19, 2009 at 8:34 AM

Donate here: http://www.rvfb.org/action.html#funds

Posted by Henry on November 19, 2009 at 8:39 AM

Ugh. People are such assholes. I'ma donate to the foodbank right now. Thanks for the link!

Posted by Belly on November 19, 2009 at 9:16 AM

Every year you hear of at least one charity getting robbed by some douchenozzle, and then the donations start flooding in, and they end up recouping their losses ten-fold.

I guess RVFB hit the douchenozzle lottery this year.

Posted by Gus on November 19, 2009 at 9:24 AM

But Charles, people that make money on Wall Street donate to food banks. You juxtaposition
is fundamentally flawed.

Posted by raindrop on November 19, 2009 at 9:27 AM

But crime goes down in a recession. Isolated incidents, homey.

Posted by PedestrianMe

on November 19, 2009 at 9:31 AM

Agree with all above. But I prefer The Clash's version of this song.

Posted by snoe on November 19, 2009 at 9:38 AM

@7- Some of them do, sometimes. Not nearly enough, mostly they just waste their money on bullshit that does nothing to stimulate the economy or help the poor. Some more aggressive taxation would fix that.

Posted by dwight moody on November 19, 2009 at 10:19 AM