Burglars Plunder Food From Charity

[MountainLaurel]

Talk about a special place in hell . . .

Empty, upended boxes were all that remained of neatly stacked cases of canned tuna, spaghetti sauce and beef stew. That's how the food bank volunteers knew the Alexandria facility where they store canned goods for some of the area's neediest had been cleaned out by thieves.

More than 1,000 pounds of canned goods was stolen from the food bank at a time when demand has soared and supplies are dwindling.

"To lose this much food in a theft is disheartening, to say the least," said Gerry Hebert, president of Alexandrians Involved Ecumenically, or Alive. "My first thought was, 'What are we going to do for getting food to people in the short term?'

"And then you get angry that someone would steal from the poor."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/03/AR2008040303924.html

[Laughing Mirror]

1. Stealing from the poor box

Times must really be desperate for somebody to steal food from a food bank. Could this have been an inside job?