For all those who have increasingly wondered how to put food on the table, newlyweds had an idea.

Police: Pa. newlyweds shoplifted reception food
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44269980/ns/us_news/



Really, it's the only solution left in the face of outsourcing, speed-ups, lay-offs, off-shoring and down-sizing. No? ;)

n/t

Stock up on some "organics" from some market catering to the condo dwellers?...

My latest Sierra Club mag has an article about it. These dumpster divers work the supermarket dumpsters where perfectly good food is thrown away and they clean it and donate it to the soup kitchens for the hungry and homeless. They have perfected it into an art form of not getting caught. Many communities now recognize the need and have supermarkets donate the stuff they might throw out instead, but there are still places in this country who would rather punish the poor for breaking the law to survive.

I don't know about stealing for a wedding reception though. I have known poor people to have a reception in a public park and ask the guests to bring pot luck. The provide the cake and punch. I went to one of those receptions and had as good a time as I probably would have at Kim Kardashian's over the top wedding.

I think the credit card industry invented these budget breaking weddings.

Borrowing money to stage a wedding extravaganza that a couple and their families cannot afford is a bad start.

... were looking for stuff to sell to buy heroin with.

Usually the "mostly expired" foodstuffs get donated by stores (especially Trader Joe's) to the local foodbanks out here in No Cal. Sometimes you pick up moldy stuff when you take what they're handing out... but as long as you grab a few extra loaves of slightly old bread to cover that, it's not usually worth complaining about (and the occasional fresh mozzarella score is always cheering).

On the other hand... there are people who will call the cops on you for digging through their trash looking for recyclables.

Personally though, in light of the obvious skewed priorities of the lawmakers toward protecting bankers and so on... I have NO problem with stealing (especially from corporate chains who are probably part of a conglomerate that is getting subsidies from the government tax dollars) for wedding receptions, bar mitzvahs, Labor Day picnics, or just because it's a sunny day and you feel like stepping outside.

At some point, the "right to property" might oughtta need to be re-examined.