1000 Coats Stolen from Charity?

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RICHMOND, Va. -- Chesterfield County police now say that a report of 300 new coats being stolen from an area Salvation Army center was a mistake.

A Salvation Army volunteer reported to police this morning that the coats had not been stolen from storage, as staff had earlier reported. Instead, they had already been put on hangers and given out to clients, said Jeff Baldwin, a spokesman for the Salvation Army.

“It appears no theft ever occurred,” said Lt. Tim Smith of the Chesterfield police department. “Unless something comes up, we think it was just a mistake.”

The employee who made the initial theft report noticed that the coats were not where they should have been, in a group of shopping carts in a cordoned off area of the distribution center. But volunteers had actually placed the coats on hangers and dispersed them to citizens, Smith said.

“It appears it’s a misunderstanding,” he said.

They initially had reported that 1,000 coats -- including 300 new ones -- had been stolen last weekend. But later yesterday, they said their initial report to police was wrong, and that only the new coats had been taken from the Salvation Army distribution center on Midlothian Turnpike. The new coats were distributed last year and stored until this holiday season.

The Salvation Army has provided toys, clothes and other items to 10,000 children in central Virginia this year.

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/local/crime/article/COAT22_20091221-214604/312905/

I had heard about this on the news and was dumbfounded. Good to hear it was just a mistake.

 

[Solaris]

The Salvation Army are bastards:

If the people who expect to be praised and glorified for being charitable were never to give another farthing it would be far better for the industrious poor, because then the community as a whole would be compelled to deal with the absurd and unnecessary state of affairs that exists today--millions of people living and dying in wretchedness and poverty in an age when science and machinery have made it possible to produce such an abundance of everything that everyone might enjoy plenty and comfort. It if were not for all this so-called charity the starving unemployed men all over the country would demand to be allowed to work and produce the things they are perishing for want of, instead of being--as they are now--content to wear their masters' cast-off clothing and to eat the crumbs that fall from his table.

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

 

[VirusType2]

Meh, most of these people accepting hand-outs are mentally and/or physically disabled.

Government does not care about people. So long as the taxes keep rolling in, that's the important thing. In the US, jobs are not assigned by governments (except government jobs) or by corporations caving to meet the demands of citizens.

Hundreds of thousands of 'bums' demanding jobs will accomplish nothing. The most powerful thing they can do is vote.

 

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Which actually does shit. Voting, I mean.

 

[VirusType2]

The homeless bums got Obama in there.

 

[phantomdesign]

Most of the shoppers at Salvation army are moderately poor & they charge too much for shitty clothing. That's why they're "evil."

And "Demanding jobs" won't do shit, it never does, unless you want government to control all business & industry.