What was seen as an opportunity for about 250 dumpster-diving scavengers during the winter storm in Austin turned out to be risky to their health more than anything, according to a constable.
Photos posted to Travis County Constable George Morales III's Facebook page on Thursday shows baskets full of food outside of an H-E-B store that people believed to be free and good to eat. It turns out, Morales warned, it was far from safe."This is not free food! We had over 250 people fighting in the dumpsters because someone posted 'Free Food!' The food is rotten and spoiled, and is unsafe to eat," Morales wrote.
He added that his deputies and Austin police officers were called to handle the traffic gridlock around the grocery store in the city's south end.shows the dumpster diving unfolding, with people on top of the receptacles and others waiting on the ground with shopping carts. A Texas news station obtained video showing a crowd of dumpster divers converge on discarded food behind an H-E-B grocery store on Feb. 2, 2023.According to H-E-B, the winter storm that much of Texas is dealing with may be to blame. The company wrote in a statement to KEYE:
"Due to a sustained power outage, the store was unable to keep certain perishable foods at proper temperatures. To adhere to strict food quality and safety standards, we are required to dispose of certain perishable foods when they are not properly temperature controlled, which also prevents us from donating the items to food pantries and food banks. H-E-B is a large donor to Texas food banks and donates more than 34 million pounds of food each year to support Texans in need.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
O sea que ni siquiera pudieron donarla,lo que dignifica que estaba muy descompuesta y en mal estado,, porque si solo hubiera estado con fecha de expiración vencida, pues la regalan al Banco de Comida, como siempre para presumir que son muy caritativos,.
The state texas!
Only thing I’d be asking is “how long was the power out” cause i would be there too tbh🫢
100% Hispanic . Yess Señorrr..
That's the reality of USA I am currently locating my American Citizen children and bring them abroad. Outrageous financial cliff never expected...
This is some real Grapes of Wraith type shit. Oh well, it's probably nothing.
This is America?
Would be opportunist sounds terrible I'm sure need a necessity had them there what a terrible way to report this!!
“Would-be opportunists” or Bidens economic fuckery survivors
HEB has been dumping tons n loads of food for decades. This is nothing new. Majority of time we been wanting to straight to the owners/officers n say WTF!
God bless us all!!!
Hope they all get sick! That will teach them to pay attention to why it was thrown out!
Would be opportunist is so harsh to say when they were just going to throw away sooo much food ? Are people not struggling to pay for food right now? Y’all need to do better !
Thanks joe!
Joe s america
'Would-be opportunists'? Seriously ABC13?
How sad in America that we the people are reduced to this!
Just wait until the shit REALLY hits the fan. The cities will be berserk.. I’m soooo happy I live in the county.
according to a constable. do you guys write your own stories?
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