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I would like to see grocery stores giving in stock food away to those in need once a disaster has been declared. There would have to be some rules like limiting the giving to a specific radius of the area. It would fulfil an immediate need until outside aid could be supplied. With appropriate record keeping the grocery store could potentially be reimbursed. If not, call it an occasional cost of doing business.
I am guessing the cost would be covered by their business insurance. A lot of the food would not be able to be sold, anyway, depending on how much water damage there was. Give it away, instead of just letting it rot. Even canned goods can be damaged, perhaps not the contents, but the labels, certainly.
Yes. Yes, it rather was. But envisioning arguments that you can actually counter - rather than the ones you're met with - probably feels good, so you've got that going for you. Which is nice.
Your opinion and you know what's said about "opinions" right?
Well, not all of it will go bad, but I agree. And the food store owners' losses will be covered by insurance. BUT, why do the looters have to trash the store in the process? Can't they just be respectful and grateful that food is even available at all even though they have to take it due to the extraordinarily life-threatening disaster?
Because they can, in case you hadn't noticed there has been a loss of civility and basic decency over the last several years.
Looting is part and parcel of any opportunity driven even like riots and natural disasters.
Sometimes it's for essentials....but most of the time it's just open season like when you see people busting into salons to steal life-saving extensions\wigs and of course the first place hit is always the liquor store.
lovely racist tone to your post MathGuy. But not subtle enough, i am betting most folk picked up on you "extensions\wigs example of of goods looted.
shame on you Mathguy, you know what you are doing and don't pretend otherwise.
Let's see. They seemingly couldn't make it to the store to get food BEFORE the storm but all of a sudden can get out to the store in 8 feet of water? I can see if this was many days to a week later that they ran out of food, but the next day???? Come on now.
HA! Beat me too it! I guess these people were waiting for the hurricane to send out a tweet announcing its arrival
Let's see. They seemingly couldn't make it to the store to get food BEFORE the storm but all of a sudden can get out to the store in 8 feet of water? I can see if this was many days to a week later that they ran out of food, but the next day???? Come on now.
have you considered, they may have had to evacuate quickly and be out of food. Consider that the state underestimated the risks , the cities underestimated the risk and many of the poeple did too.
sure some will steal goods they don't need but we all know we would all steal food for our family should we need to.
pretending they are ALL thugs reflects a lot more on you and other posters here then the people involved.
So happy we're not living in the society you envision.
I already stated earlier in the thread that you need to be the property owner to shoot the looter. If you aren't you have no idea if they have consent or not.
So the logic and morality are pretty bulletproof (pun intended).
I own a cell phone store. Looters break into my cell phone store. They begin to pick up items to carry away. I did not give consent to remove the items. I blow them away.
No good?
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