• deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    Great, now go after the buyers.

    Some local fast food franchise owner knew enough to not ask questions about discount meat being sold from a school district van.

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    That is a FUCK TON of chicken wings.

    Alexa tells me the wholesale price of chicken wings is $3.22 a pound and each pound is around 5 wings.

    So $1.5m / $3.22 = 465,838.5 pounds of wings.
    2,329,193 wings.

    What did they charge her with? “Possession with intent to distribute”? LOL.

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    What I want to know is what the hell did she do with that many chicken wings? She can’t have sold them… She took them on a case-by-case basis.

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        Think for a moment about the kids who don’t eat a school meal because it’s convenient but because they have to, for one reason or another. Now imagine stealing from their budget.

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      Harvey is a very economically depressed area. There’s a good chance that if the school didn’t feed the kids during Covid, the kids would have gone hungry.

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      It was the second paragraph.

      Vera Liddell, the food service director for Harvey School District 152 near Chicago, stole the huge amount of fast food during the pandemic and its aftermath, when the wings were meant for children doing remote learning but who were still picking up school meals, local TV station WGN reported.

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      What a despicable crime. She stole them from needy school kids; they were intended to feed kids in low-income areas during lockdown.