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03-31-2012 , 06:06 AM

joeyDizzle

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This is a real feel good story, the food police had to step in, apparently to make sure those hungry hungry homeless weren't getting too much salt or fat.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/03/...-the-homeless/

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s food police have struck again!

Outlawed are food donations to homeless shelters because the city can’t assess their salt, fat and fiber content, reports CBS 2’s Marcia Kramer.

Glenn Richter arrived at a West Side synagogue on Monday to collect surplus bagels — fresh nutritious bagels — to donate to the poor. However, under a new edict from Bloomberg’s food police he can no longer donate the food to city homeless shelters.

03-31-2012 , 06:09 AM

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03-31-2012 , 06:09 AM

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City homeless shelters are for homeless fish. Ballin' homeless go to the private shelters.

03-31-2012 , 07:40 AM

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****ing ******s in NYC

03-31-2012 , 08:03 AM

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03-31-2012 , 11:15 AM

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I'm pretty sure this follows something very similar done in Philadelphia just a few weeks before. Nutter (iirc, the mayor of Philly) has made it illegal to feed the homeless in the hopes that that would make the government's inability to deal with this problem harder to see.

03-31-2012 , 11:19 AM

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Beggars can't be choosers.

03-31-2012 , 11:36 AM

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Bloomberg is a 5th degree Illuminatus Malthusian. Their mandate is to reduce the "surplus population" of "useless eaters." This edict is just the beginning.

03-31-2012 , 12:02 PM

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and yet these idiots don't ban wine gnats, the real problem.

03-31-2012 , 12:06 PM

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Originally Posted by General Tsao

It's been like that in Philly for awhile. Several years ago I knew a guy who waited tables at Fogo de Chao, the Brazilian steakhouse with tableside meat service. My buddy told me that for the longest time the management donated the day's leftover food to a nearby homeless shelter, but the city stepped in and made them stop. The reasoning had something to do with food contamination fears. Now they throw a ****-ton of food away every night.

So... I guess it's better to toss out leftover filet mingon instead of giving it to a hungry person.

Logic fail IMHO.

03-31-2012 , 12:15 PM

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If people could get food from charities and food donors, we wouldn't need as much welfare or food stamps... That would be a disaster.

03-31-2012 , 12:32 PM

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Pretty insane that more people aren't talking about this, but I guess this is America, people are used to the homeless being treated like absolute dirt, so nothing new here, move along.

03-31-2012 , 12:36 PM

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Originally Posted by krmont22

If people could get food from charities and food donors, we wouldn't need as much welfare or food stamps... That would be a disaster.

Bloomberg bans food donations in order to increase Teh Socialismz? Is that really your argument?

03-31-2012 , 12:50 PM

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Cause garbage dumpsters are much better to fish out leftovers vs getting them fresh...what a bunch of bs!

03-31-2012 , 12:59 PM

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Cause garbage dumpsters are much better to fish out leftovers vs getting them fresh...what a bunch of bs!

Well, when a dude gets sick from eating out of a dumpster he can't sue the original owner of the food. We must protect ourselves from those litigious bums.

03-31-2012 , 04:53 PM

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"They're just stumps!"

03-31-2012 , 05:58 PM

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Taking food throwing it in a dumpster and having homeless pick it out of dumpster and eat it is better for them then just giving them food not from a dumpster?

03-31-2012 , 06:07 PM

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They recently did the same in Houston. Must be something driving this, I'd love to know what.

03-31-2012 , 07:31 PM

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They recently did the same in Houston. Must be something driving this, I'd love to know what.

I'm pretty sure it's fear of litigation, like someone said earlier.

03-31-2012 , 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by A_C_Slater

Bloomberg is a 5th degree Illuminatus Malthusian. Their mandate is to reduce the "surplus population" of "useless eaters." This edict is just the beginning.

03-31-2012 , 07:51 PM

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Originally Posted by cantcash

Taking food throwing it in a dumpster and having homeless pick it out of dumpster and eat it is better for them then just giving them food not from a dumpster?

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

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I'm pretty sure it's fear of litigation, like someone said earlier.

The homeless are well known for their incessant frivolous litigation.

03-31-2012 , 09:59 PM

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They recently did the same in Houston. Must be something driving this, I'd love to know what.

things are ugly and politicians are trying to keep that ugliness, that failure of government, hidden?

04-01-2012 , 01:29 AM

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The homeless are well known for their incessant frivolous litigation.

As a prior homeless myself, I LOL'd. No ambulance chaser wants a street tramp in his office.

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My buddy told me that for the longest time the management donated the day's leftover food to a nearby homeless shelter, but the city stepped in and made them stop. The reasoning had something to do with food contamination fears. Now they throw a ****-ton of food away every night.

Rats don't read expiration dates...