>Another fine example of complete stupidity.
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>http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=21802556
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>Now I understand that the cops were just dong their job - but ya know at some point you have to think that the part of their job where they're supposed to help people takes more importance than being sure good food ends up in the trash.

I guess an important part of their job is to turn off any independent thought and another important part is to control themselves never to do anything that's not on the books. So one charity didn't come up to pick the food - they could have claimed the hungry were another charity and handed them everything, while maintaining order during the distribution. But no, nobody told them to do anything about it, and the bank which orchestrated the whole thing wouldn't want to encourage freeloaders. They may expect who knows what later - give them something for free once, they may imagine they have an entitlement next time, which shouldn't be encouraged.